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| Total Respond.^ |
Within the past month | Within the past year | Within the past 2 years | 2 or more years ago | Never | |||||||||||
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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 | 11,271 | 1,501 | 12.4 | 11.7-13.2 | 5,928 | 51.3 | 50.2-52.5 | 1,771 | 16.6 | 15.7-17.5 | 1,898 | 17.5 | 16.6-18.4 | 173 | 2.2 | 1.8- 2.7 |
| -Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 460 | 52 | 10.7 | 7.8-14.6 | 247 | 52.6 | 46.9-58.2 | 80 | 18.1 | 14.1-22.9 | 79 | 18.3 | 14.1-23.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.1- 1.3 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 179 | 19 | 11.3 | 6.7-18.4 | 86 | 47.9 | 39.1-56.9 | 33 | 19.0 | 13.0-27.0 | 40 | 21.4 | 14.6-30.2 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0- 2.4 |
| Female | 281 | 33 | 10.2 | 6.9-14.8 | 161 | 56.7 | 49.5-63.5 | 47 | 17.2 | 12.4-23.4 | 39 | 15.6 | 10.9-21.9 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0- 2.3 |
| RACE | ||||||||||||||||
| White | 421 | 48 | 10.7 | 7.7-14.7 | 226 | 52.9 | 47.1-58.7 | 73 | 18.0 | 13.9-23.0 | 73 | 18.1 | 13.8-23.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.0- 1.3 |
| Other | 39 | 4 | 10.5 | 2.3-36.6 | 21 | 45.2 | 22.3-70.3 | 7 | 18.6 | 6.2-44.4 | 6 | 22.3 | 7.6-50.1 | 1 | 3.3 | 0.5-20.9 |
| AGE | ||||||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 45 | 5 | 13.1 | 4.8-31.1 | 25 | 54.1 | 36.0-71.2 | 4 | 8.4 | 2.2-27.2 | 10 | 23.1 | 11.6-40.7 | 1 | 1.3 | 0.2- 9.1 |
| 45+ | 415 | 47 | 10.4 | 7.4-14.3 | 222 | 52.3 | 46.4-58.2 | 76 | 19.5 | 15.2-24.7 | 69 | 17.6 | 13.2-23.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.0- 1.3 |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 216 | 24 | 10.6 | 6.6-16.7 | 109 | 48.5 | 40.1-57.0 | 33 | 14.4 | 9.4-21.3 | 48 | 25.7 | 18.5-34.6 | 2 | 0.7 | 0.2- 2.9 |
| Some College + | 241 | 28 | 10.9 | 7.0-16.6 | 137 | 56.3 | 48.6-63.6 | 46 | 20.9 | 15.3-28.0 | 30 | 11.9 | 7.7-17.8 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 297 | 32 | 8.9 | 5.9-13.2 | 156 | 51.9 | 44.7-59.0 | 49 | 16.6 | 12.0-22.6 | 58 | 22.0 | 16.3-29.2 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.1- 2.1 |
| $50,000+ | 104 | 20 | 20.8 | 12.8-32.0 | 55 | 51.4 | 40.0-62.7 | 21 | 22.6 | 14.1-34.2 | 8 | 5.2 | 2.1-11.9 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . |
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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