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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Violence-WHITES

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,190 108 7.2 5.5- 9.3 1,082 92.8 90.7-94.5
GENDER
Male 387 14 3.0 1.5- 5.7 373 97.0 94.3-98.5
Female 803 94 10.7 8.1-14.1 709 89.3 85.9-91.9
AGE
18-24 71 5 4.8 1.5-14.4 66 95.2 85.6-98.5
25-34 207 12 4.2 1.8- 9.4 195 95.8 90.6-98.2
35-44 289 30 8.1 5.1-12.6 259 91.9 87.4-94.9
45-54 317 35 9.6 6.0-14.8 282 90.4 85.2-94.0
55-64 172 13 10.8 5.3-20.8 159 89.2 79.2-94.7
65-74 80 10 8.6 3.7-18.7 70 91.4 81.3-96.3
75+ 47 1 0.8 0.1- 5.5 46 99.2 94.5-99.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 152 13 4.7 2.2- 9.7 139 95.3 90.3-97.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 363 29 6.0 3.7- 9.6 334 94.0 90.4-96.3
Some Post-H.S. 358 33 8.8 5.6-13.6 325 91.2 86.4-94.4
College Graduate 316 33 8.4 4.9-14.1 283 91.6 85.9-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 151 22 16.4 9.4-27.1 129 83.6 72.9-90.6
$15,000- 24,999 248 20 5.5 2.9-10.1 228 94.5 89.9-97.1
$25,000- 34,999 146 7 3.5 1.3- 9.2 139 96.5 90.8-98.7
$35,000- 49,999 168 11 6.9 2.9-15.5 157 93.1 84.5-97.1
$50,000-74,999 128 17 11.4 6.2-20.2 111 88.6 79.8-93.8
$75,000+ 130 17 7.2 3.7-13.8 113 92.8 86.2-96.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 74 14 21.7 12.5-35.0 60 78.3 65.0-87.5
Guilford 51 3 4.1 1.2-13.7 48 95.9 86.3-98.8
Mecklenburg 49 6 4.9 2.0-11.6 43 95.1 88.4-98.0
Orange 57 3 5.6 1.4-20.2 54 94.4 79.8-98.6
Wake 54 3 2.9 0.9- 9.4 51 97.1 90.6-99.1
Chatham/Lee 40 5 10.8 4.4-24.4 35 89.2 75.6-95.6
Nash/Wilson 41 3 4.9 1.3-16.6 38 95.1 83.4-98.7
Craven/Pamlico 65 7 8.0 3.1-19.0 58 92.0 81.0-96.9
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 73 5 5.7 2.2-14.0 68 94.3 86.0-97.8
Appalachian/Wilkes 74 7 10.2 3.9-24.1 67 89.8 75.9-96.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance 50 1 2.3 0.3-14.8 49 97.7 85.2-99.7
Graham/Swain/Jackson 57 5 6.1 2.4-14.9 52 93.9 85.1-97.6
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 35 3 7.8 2.2-24.2 32 92.2 75.8-97.8
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 43 3 6.2 1.8-19.3 40 93.8 80.7-98.2
Northeast NC I 38 2 2.7 0.6-10.5 36 97.3 89.5-99.4
Northeast NC II 55 8 12.1 5.7-23.9 47 87.9 76.1-94.3
Northeastern Partnership 93 10 9.1 4.6-17.5 83 90.9 82.5-95.4
Mountain AHEC 203 24 10.2 5.8-17.4 179 89.8 82.6-94.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 370 40 10.2 6.5-15.6 330 89.8 84.4-93.5
Piedmont 488 32 4.8 3.0- 7.5 456 95.2 92.5-97.0
Western NC 332 36 9.2 5.8-14.2 296 90.8 85.8-94.2

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Asked only of those who have ever had violence done to them by someone else

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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