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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Western North Carolina**

Violence

Who were all the persons you told about this most recent violence?
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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,638 145 6.8 5.4- 8.5 1,493 93.2 91.5-94.6
-Western NC 363 36 8.7 5.5-13.4 327 91.3 86.6-94.5
GENDER
Male 112 4 4.8 1.5-14.8 108 95.2 85.2-98.5
Female 251 32 11.6 7.5-17.6 219 88.4 82.4-92.5
RACE
White 332 36 9.2 5.8-14.2 296 90.8 85.8-94.2
African American 10 0 0.0 . - . 10 100 . - .
Other Minorities 20 0 0.0 . - . 20 100 . - .
AGE
18-24 20 2 10.9 2.6-35.4 18 89.1 64.6-97.4
25-34 61 5 7.1 2.0-21.8 56 92.9 78.2-98.0
35-44 73 9 13.1 5.8-27.1 64 86.9 72.9-94.2
45-54 98 9 6.2 2.6-13.7 89 93.8 86.3-97.4
55-64 58 4 8.1 2.6-22.5 54 91.9 77.5-97.4
65-74 34 4 6.2 1.8-19.3 30 93.8 80.7-98.2
75+ 15 1 5.8 0.8-33.1 14 94.2 66.9-99.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 52 6 8.9 2.5-27.0 46 91.1 73.0-97.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 114 9 6.3 2.8-13.6 105 93.7 86.4-97.2
Some Post-H.S. 113 10 10.7 4.6-23.3 103 89.3 76.7-95.4
College Graduate 83 11 10.1 5.0-19.3 72 89.9 80.7-95.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 73 10 16.7 8.4-30.5 63 83.3 69.5-91.6
$15,000- 24,999 88 4 1.2 0.4- 3.7 84 98.8 96.3-99.6
$25,000- 34,999 37 2 3.2 0.6-14.8 35 96.8 85.2-99.4
$35,000- 49,999 39 6 11.3 4.4-25.8 33 88.7 74.2-95.6
$50,000-74,999 35 6 17.5 6.1-41.0 29 82.5 59.0-93.9
$75,000+ 25 2 10.1 1.8-41.4 23 89.9 58.6-98.2
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 14 19.3 11.1-31.4 71 80.7 68.6-88.9
Guilford 75 6 6.9 2.7-16.6 69 93.1 83.4-97.3
Mecklenburg 81 10 6.8 3.3-13.4 71 93.2 86.6-96.7
Orange 70 5 7.7 2.7-20.1 65 92.3 79.9-97.3
Wake 82 5 2.7 1.0- 6.7 77 97.3 93.3-99.0
Chatham/Lee 56 5 6.8 2.7-16.1 51 93.2 83.9-97.3
Nash/Wilson 71 5 4.5 1.7-11.9 66 95.5 88.1-98.3
Craven/Pamlico 86 8 7.0 2.9-15.9 78 93.0 84.1-97.1
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 5 5.4 2.1-13.4 72 94.6 86.6-97.9
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 7 10.1 3.9-23.9 68 89.9 76.1-96.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 3 2.3 0.6- 7.9 80 97.7 92.1-99.4
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 5 5.1 2.0-12.6 64 94.9 87.4-98.0
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 6 6.1 2.5-14.0 76 93.9 86.0-97.5
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 4 4.9 1.6-14.1 60 95.1 85.9-98.4
Northeast NC I 69 10 11.4 5.8-21.1 59 88.6 78.9-94.2
Northeast NC II 80 11 11.7 6.2-20.9 69 88.3 79.1-93.8
Northeastern Partnership 149 21 11.6 7.2-18.0 128 88.4 82.0-92.8
Mountain AHEC 231 24 9.5 5.4-16.1 207 90.5 83.9-94.6
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 580 60 9.2 6.3-13.3 520 90.8 86.7-93.7
Piedmont 695 49 5.0 3.5- 7.1 646 95.0 92.9-96.5

Due to the small number of respondents to this question, no further breakdowns are available for Western North Carolina**. Please refer to the North Carolina table for statewide breakdowns.

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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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