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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Wake County

Disability

Because of any impairment or health problem, do you have any trouble learning, remembering, or concentrating?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 9,255 1,237 12.0 11.0-13.1 8,018 88.0 86.9-89.0
-Wake County 444 39 8.3 5.6-12.1 405 91.7 87.9-94.4
GENDER
Male 168 11 5.6 2.7-11.1 157 94.4 88.9-97.3
Female 276 28 10.6 6.7-16.5 248 89.4 83.5-93.3
RACE
White 321 25 6.4 4.1- 9.8 296 93.6 90.2-95.9
Other 120 13 12.1 6.1-22.4 107 87.9 77.6-93.9
AGE
18-44 245 16 6.7 3.7-12.0 229 93.3 88.0-96.3
45+ 196 23 11.0 6.7-17.6 173 89.0 82.4-93.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 110 22 19.0 11.3-30.1 88 81.0 69.9-88.7
Some College + 333 17 4.0 2.4- 6.6 316 96.0 93.4-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 25 13.7 8.5-21.4 158 86.3 78.6-91.5
$50,000+ 186 4 1.9 0.6- 5.3 182 98.1 94.7-99.4
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 446 49 9.6 7.0-12.9 397 90.4 87.1-93.0
Guilford 443 53 12.3 9.0-16.7 390 87.7 83.3-91.0
Mecklenburg 442 48 8.3 6.0-11.3 394 91.7 88.7-94.0
Orange 450 35 5.6 3.8- 8.2 415 94.4 91.8-96.2
Wake 444 39 8.3 5.6-12.1 405 91.7 87.9-94.4
Chatham/Lee 391 34 7.4 5.0-10.7 357 92.6 89.3-95.0
Nash/Wilson 369 51 12.6 9.3-16.8 318 87.4 83.2-90.7
Craven/Pamlico 446 63 12.2 9.2-16.0 383 87.8 84.0-90.8
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 423 55 10.9 8.2-14.5 368 89.1 85.5-91.8
Appalachian/Wilkes 449 59 10.5 7.9-13.9 390 89.5 86.1-92.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance 470 79 13.3 9.7-18.1 391 86.7 81.9-90.3
Graham/Swain/Jackson 421 62 11.6 8.3-16.0 359 88.4 84.0-91.7
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 463 83 16.1 12.7-20.2 380 83.9 79.8-87.3
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 409 70 13.9 10.7-17.8 339 86.1 82.2-89.3
Northeast NC I 445 71 14.2 10.8-18.5 374 85.8 81.5-89.2
Northeast NC II 500 82 16.4 12.8-20.9 418 83.6 79.1-87.2
Northeastern Partnership 945 153 15.6 12.9-18.8 792 84.4 81.2-87.1
Mountain AHEC 1,286 172 14.6 10.8-19.5 1,114 85.4 80.5-89.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 3,235 503 13.8 12.1-15.8 2,732 86.2 84.2-87.9
Piedmont 3,977 460 10.4 9.1-11.8 3,517 89.6 88.2-90.9
Western NC 2,043 274 14.5 11.5-18.1 1,769 85.5 81.9-88.5

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^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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