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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Falls-AFRICAN AMERICANS

In the past 3 months, how many times have you fallen?*

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  Total
Respond.^
1 fall 2 falls 3-4 falls 5+ falls No falls
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,617 134 8.0 6.4- 9.8 58 3.2 2.3- 4.3 31 2.3 1.5- 3.6 24 1.6 0.9- 2.7 1,370 85.0 82.6-87.0
GENDER
Male 489 35 6.9 4.6-10.3 12 2.6 1.4- 4.7 12 3.1 1.6- 6.0 9 1.9 0.9- 4.1 421 85.5 81.2-89.0
Female 1,128 99 8.8 6.9-11.0 46 3.6 2.6- 5.0 19 1.7 1.0- 2.8 15 1.4 0.7- 2.8 949 84.5 81.8-86.9
AGE
45-54 538 39 6.8 4.7- 9.9 22 3.5 2.1- 5.7 11 2.6 1.2- 5.4 9 1.8 0.8- 4.1 457 85.3 81.1-88.7
55-64 483 41 7.4 5.0-10.9 15 2.8 1.6- 5.0 10 2.9 1.5- 5.9 8 1.1 0.5- 2.5 409 85.7 81.4-89.1
65-74 357 37 11.0 7.6-15.8 9 2.6 1.3- 5.4 6 1.5 0.5- 4.5 3 0.8 0.3- 2.6 302 83.9 78.7-88.1
75+ 219 16 7.1 4.1-12.0 10 3.5 1.8- 6.6 3 0.9 0.3- 2.8 2 2.2 0.5- 9.4 188 86.4 80.0-90.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 453 45 9.7 6.8-13.6 24 5.5 3.5- 8.5 6 1.5 0.5- 4.3 9 2.4 1.0- 5.9 369 81.0 75.9-85.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 564 42 7.2 5.0-10.1 16 2.3 1.3- 4.0 13 2.4 1.3- 4.3 8 1.8 0.7- 4.3 485 86.4 82.6-89.5
Some Post-H.S. 322 23 6.8 3.9-11.8 15 3.8 2.1- 7.0 9 4.2 1.8- 9.4 5 1.1 0.4- 2.8 270 84.0 77.8-88.7
College Graduate 273 23 8.1 4.8-13.6 3 0.8 0.2- 2.4 2 0.7 0.1- 4.1 2 0.5 0.1- 2.1 243 89.8 84.3-93.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 374 30 8.2 5.3-12.4 27 7.1 4.5-10.8 13 4.7 2.2- 9.9 9 1.9 0.9- 4.1 295 78.1 72.1-83.0
$15,000- 24,999 375 34 8.5 5.5-12.7 16 4.2 2.4- 7.3 7 1.7 0.8- 3.7 8 1.7 0.8- 3.6 310 83.9 79.0-87.9
$25,000- 34,999 218 15 5.9 3.2-10.5 1 1.1 0.1- 7.1 1 0.3 0.0- 2.2 2 1.1 0.3- 4.6 199 91.6 86.2-95.1
$35,000- 49,999 165 17 9.0 5.2-14.9 3 1.4 0.4- 4.3 3 3.7 1.1-11.4 0 0.0 . - . 142 85.9 78.4-91.1
$50,000-74,999 127 17 17.4 9.7-29.3 0 0.0 . - . 2 2.2 0.5- 8.9 1 0.5 0.1- 3.5 107 79.9 68.1-88.1
$75,000+ 86 2 1.1 0.2- 4.9 3 3.5 1.0-11.7 0 0.0 . - . 1 0.7 0.1- 5.1 80 94.7 87.0-98.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 768 92 10.9 8.5-13.9 50 5.8 4.2- 8.0 26 4.2 2.6- 6.8 22 3.2 1.8- 5.6 578 75.9 71.9-79.5
No 792 42 6.0 4.1- 8.6 8 1.0 0.5- 2.3 3 0.5 0.1- 1.5 2 0.3 0.1- 1.1 737 92.3 89.4-94.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 199 10 5.2 2.4-10.9 4 1.9 0.6- 5.5 5 2.4 0.8- 6.9 5 2.8 0.9- 7.9 175 87.7 80.7-92.4
Non-Veteran 1,414 124 8.6 6.9-10.6 54 3.5 2.5- 4.7 26 2.3 1.4- 3.7 19 1.3 0.7- 2.4 1,191 84.3 81.8-86.5

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Asked only of respondents age 45 and older.

^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.

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