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| Total Respond.^ |
No difficulty | A little difficulty | Moderate difficulty | Extreme difficulty | Unable to do b/c of eyesight | |||||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 11,312 | 9,729 | 86.8 | 86.0-87.6 | 1,018 | 8.7 | 8.0- 9.4 | 358 | 3.0 | 2.6- 3.4 | 109 | 0.8 | 0.6- 1.1 | 98 | 0.7 | 0.6- 1.0 |
| -Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 460 | 396 | 88.7 | 84.9-91.6 | 45 | 9.0 | 6.3-12.6 | 11 | 1.4 | 0.6- 3.0 | 3 | 0.1 | 0.0- 0.4 | 5 | 0.8 | 0.3- 2.0 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 178 | 157 | 90.8 | 84.3-94.7 | 15 | 7.5 | 3.8-14.0 | 4 | 1.4 | 0.4- 4.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.0- 0.6 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0- 2.1 |
| Female | 282 | 239 | 86.8 | 81.8-90.6 | 30 | 10.3 | 7.0-15.1 | 7 | 1.4 | 0.5- 4.0 | 2 | 0.2 | 0.0- 0.8 | 4 | 1.3 | 0.5- 3.5 |
| RACE | ||||||||||||||||
| White | 421 | 364 | 88.8 | 84.9-91.8 | 39 | 8.8 | 6.1-12.6 | 11 | 1.5 | 0.7- 3.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.0- 0.3 | 5 | 0.9 | 0.3- 2.1 |
| Other | 39 | 32 | 85.9 | 66.7-94.9 | 6 | 12.7 | 4.3-32.0 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 1 | 1.4 | 0.2- 9.8 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . |
| AGE | ||||||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 46 | 39 | 90.1 | 77.4-96.0 | 5 | 6.9 | 2.4-18.3 | 2 | 3.0 | 0.5-15.5 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 0 | 0.0 | . - . |
| 45+ | 414 | 357 | 88.5 | 84.3-91.6 | 40 | 9.3 | 6.4-13.3 | 9 | 1.2 | 0.5- 2.7 | 3 | 0.1 | 0.0- 0.5 | 5 | 0.9 | 0.4- 2.3 |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 216 | 179 | 86.4 | 80.2-90.9 | 23 | 9.3 | 5.5-15.2 | 7 | 2.5 | 1.0- 6.1 | 3 | 0.3 | 0.1- 1.0 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5- 4.1 |
| Some College + | 241 | 214 | 90.4 | 85.2-93.9 | 22 | 8.9 | 5.5-14.0 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.1- 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0- 1.8 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 296 | 253 | 88.3 | 83.6-91.7 | 30 | 9.0 | 6.0-13.3 | 9 | 1.9 | 0.8- 4.4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0- 0.2 | 3 | 0.8 | 0.2- 2.6 |
| $50,000+ | 104 | 92 | 89.3 | 78.8-94.9 | 9 | 9.3 | 4.0-20.0 | 2 | 0.9 | 0.1- 5.5 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 1 | 0.6 | 0.1- 3.9 |
Back to Visual Impairment and Access to Eye Care*.
Asked only of respondents age 40 and older.
*NOTE: These questions on visual impairment/eyecare have never been asked previously in the NC BRFSS Survey.
^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.
*Mountain AHEC: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.
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