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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?
Health care provider/doctor/nurse/social worker/counselor

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,638 178 9.4 7.5-11.7 1,460 90.6 88.3-92.5
-Western NC 363 42 7.9 5.2-12.0 321 92.1 88.0-94.8
GENDER
Male 112 5 2.1 0.8- 5.7 107 97.9 94.3-99.2
Female 251 37 12.4 8.0-18.6 214 87.6 81.4-92.0
RACE
White 332 38 7.6 4.8-11.8 294 92.4 88.2-95.2
African American 10 0 0.0 . - . 10 100 . - .
Other Minorities 20 3 25.7 8.6-55.9 17 74.3 44.1-91.4
AGE
18-24 20 0 0.0 . - . 20 100 . - .
25-34 61 11 7.9 3.1-19.0 50 92.1 81.0-96.9
35-44 73 10 10.3 4.9-20.3 63 89.7 79.7-95.1
45-54 98 10 8.3 3.0-20.6 88 91.7 79.4-97.0
55-64 58 3 4.7 1.3-15.8 55 95.3 84.2-98.7
65-74 34 5 13.6 5.0-32.0 29 86.4 68.0-95.0
75+ 15 2 8.8 1.9-31.8 13 91.2 68.2-98.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 52 7 6.6 2.2-18.4 45 93.4 81.6-97.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 114 8 6.1 2.5-14.1 106 93.9 85.9-97.5
Some Post-H.S. 113 14 9.7 4.5-19.9 99 90.3 80.1-95.5
College Graduate 83 13 10.3 5.3-19.1 70 89.7 80.9-94.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 73 13 15.6 8.3-27.3 60 84.4 72.7-91.7
$15,000- 24,999 88 12 6.0 2.9-12.0 76 94.0 88.0-97.1
$25,000- 34,999 37 2 1.6 0.4- 6.7 35 98.4 93.3-99.6
$35,000- 49,999 39 5 15.0 5.2-36.4 34 85.0 63.6-94.8
$50,000-74,999 35 3 2.8 0.6-12.8 32 97.2 87.2-99.4
$75,000+ 25 4 32.2 11.6-63.3 21 67.8 36.7-88.4
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 85 15 16.9 9.7-27.8 70 83.1 72.2-90.3
Guilford 75 4 5.7 1.9-15.8 71 94.3 84.2-98.1
Mecklenburg 81 8 8.1 3.3-18.2 73 91.9 81.8-96.7
Orange 70 9 8.8 3.7-19.8 61 91.2 80.2-96.3
Wake 82 7 9.0 3.4-21.7 75 91.0 78.3-96.6
Chatham/Lee 56 5 7.5 3.0-17.8 51 92.5 82.2-97.0
Nash/Wilson 71 10 13.6 6.9-25.0 61 86.4 75.0-93.1
Craven/Pamlico 86 10 9.1 4.5-17.7 76 90.9 82.3-95.5
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 77 7 9.6 4.4-19.8 70 90.4 80.2-95.6
Appalachian/Wilkes 75 8 13.1 4.4-32.9 67 86.9 67.1-95.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 83 6 3.2 1.3- 7.6 77 96.8 92.4-98.7
Graham/Swain/Jackson 69 9 10.8 5.4-20.4 60 89.2 79.6-94.6
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 10 10.8 5.3-20.8 72 89.2 79.2-94.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 64 8 9.7 4.4-19.8 56 90.3 80.2-95.6
Northeast NC I 69 9 10.3 5.1-19.7 60 89.7 80.3-94.9
Northeast NC II 80 9 11.2 5.7-20.8 71 88.8 79.2-94.3
Northeastern Partnership 149 18 10.9 6.6-17.5 131 89.1 82.5-93.4
Mountain AHEC 231 29 7.6 4.7-12.2 202 92.4 87.8-95.3
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 580 73 12.6 9.0-17.4 507 87.4 82.6-91.0
Piedmont 695 63 8.0 5.6-11.3 632 92.0 88.7-94.4

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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