SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties

Disability

A disability can be physical, mental, emotional, or communication related. Do you consider yourself to have a disability?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes, mild Yes, moderate Yes, severe No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,511 840 5.5 5.1- 6.0 989 6.0 5.6- 6.5 1,114 6.9 6.5- 7.5 11,568 81.5 80.7-82.3
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes 349 20 5.5 3.4- 8.8 26 7.7 5.0-11.7 40 10.7 7.6-15.0 263 76.1 70.4-80.9
GENDER
Male 132 11 7.6 4.0-13.9 11 8.0 4.2-14.8 20 13.5 8.3-21.2 90 70.9 61.3-78.9
Female 217 9 3.3 1.7- 6.4 15 7.3 4.1-12.7 20 7.8 4.9-12.2 173 81.6 75.3-86.5
RACE
White 332 18 5.1 3.0- 8.3 24 7.1 4.6-11.0 39 11.4 8.0-15.8 251 76.5 70.9-81.2
Other 16 2 9.7 2.1-34.9 2 12.8 2.8-42.6 1 5.5 0.7-32.3 11 72.1 41.0-90.6
AGE
18-44 128 5 3.1 1.2- 7.8 5 4.5 1.7-11.5 5 4.9 1.9-12.2 113 87.5 79.1-92.8
45+ 221 15 6.9 4.0-11.9 21 9.5 5.8-15.2 35 14.2 9.8-20.3 150 69.3 61.5-76.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 12 5.4 2.9- 9.9 16 9.8 5.7-16.5 28 12.5 8.2-18.7 131 72.3 64.0-79.3
Some College + 162 8 5.7 2.6-11.8 10 4.8 2.5- 9.0 12 8.4 4.5-15.3 132 81.1 73.3-87.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 217 15 6.2 3.5-10.7 17 8.6 5.1-14.1 26 10.4 6.8-15.7 159 74.8 67.5-80.9
$50,000+ 62 2 5.1 1.3-18.6 2 2.9 0.7-11.3 3 5.5 1.6-17.4 55 86.5 73.2-93.8

Back to Disability.

^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 (MAHEC): 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 06APR05.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook