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Total Respond.^ |
1 injury | 2 or more injuries | No injuries | |||||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 1,663 | 463 | 27.3 | 24.7-30.1 | 113 | 6.6 | 5.3- 8.2 | 1,087 | 66.1 | 63.2-68.9 |
COUNTY/REGIONS | ||||||||||
Alamance | 52 | 15 | 26.2 | 15.8-40.2 | 5 | 10.9 | 4.5-24.0 | 32 | 62.9 | 48.2-75.5 |
Buncombe | 55 | 13 | 23.5 | 13.7-37.2 | 3 | 6.9 | 2.1-20.1 | 39 | 69.6 | 55.2-81.0 |
Cabarrus | 34 | 12 | 20.2 | 10.5-35.1 | 1 | 1.4 | 0.2- 9.3 | 21 | 78.5 | 63.3-88.5 |
Catawba | 41 | 13 | 28.5 | 16.2-45.0 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.6- 9.7 | 26 | 69.0 | 52.4-81.9 |
Cumberland | 39 | 8 | 22.0 | 10.4-40.7 | 4 | 11.9 | 3.9-30.8 | 27 | 66.1 | 46.9-81.1 |
Davidson | 44 | 15 | 24.2 | 13.5-39.5 | 3 | 5.5 | 1.6-17.0 | 26 | 70.3 | 54.3-82.6 |
Durham | 41 | 13 | 27.6 | 14.8-45.6 | 4 | 16.6 | 4.8-44.2 | 24 | 55.7 | 36.4-73.5 |
Forsyth | 43 | 13 | 29.8 | 17.1-46.7 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.3-12.2 | 29 | 68.3 | 51.4-81.5 |
Gaston | 49 | 14 | 25.9 | 14.0-42.9 | 3 | 5.4 | 1.6-16.5 | 32 | 68.7 | 51.7-81.8 |
Guilford | 45 | 11 | 18.5 | 9.8-32.2 | 4 | 9.2 | 3.1-24.3 | 30 | 72.3 | 56.7-83.8 |
Iredell | 37 | 12 | 25.4 | 13.2-43.3 | 2 | 6.4 | 1.2-27.9 | 23 | 68.2 | 49.4-82.5 |
Johnston | 46 | 13 | 27.3 | 11.0-53.2 | 2 | 5.4 | 1.1-22.2 | 31 | 67.4 | 42.5-85.2 |
Mecklenburg | 78 | 28 | 33.8 | 22.0-48.0 | 4 | 4.0 | 1.2-12.2 | 46 | 62.2 | 48.3-74.4 |
New Hanover | 52 | 11 | 23.7 | 13.0-39.2 | 2 | 2.1 | 0.5- 8.0 | 39 | 74.3 | 59.0-85.3 |
Onslow | 40 | 8 | 16.9 | 7.8-32.9 | 4 | 8.8 | 2.9-23.3 | 28 | 74.3 | 57.3-86.1 |
Orange | 32 | 12 | 31.8 | 17.1-51.2 | 1 | 2.9 | 0.4-18.4 | 19 | 65.3 | 45.7-80.8 |
Pitt | 30 | 12 | 36.6 | 20.6-56.2 | 1 | 2.8 | 0.4-17.6 | 17 | 60.6 | 41.1-77.2 |
Randolph | 37 | 13 | 36.8 | 20.9-56.3 | 3 | 10.8 | 2.8-34.0 | 21 | 52.3 | 34.0-70.1 |
Robeson | 46 | 9 | 23.6 | 12.1-41.2 | 4 | 9.7 | 3.4-24.7 | 33 | 66.6 | 49.4-80.4 |
Rowan | 49 | 13 | 27.7 | 15.6-44.3 | 3 | 5.9 | 1.6-19.4 | 33 | 66.4 | 50.0-79.7 |
Union | 27 | 4 | 18.3 | 6.2-43.1 | 2 | 4.9 | 1.1-19.8 | 21 | 76.8 | 53.3-90.6 |
Wake | 31 | 8 | 22.4 | 10.7-41.0 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.3-12.6 | 22 | 75.7 | 57.1-88.0 |
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico | 48 | 17 | 37.7 | 23.7-54.1 | 2 | 2.1 | 0.5- 8.4 | 29 | 60.2 | 44.0-74.4 |
Northeast Partnership II*** | 64 | 15 | 22.4 | 13.3-35.1 | 9 | 14.0 | 6.7-27.0 | 40 | 63.6 | 49.7-75.6 |
Northeast Partnership I*** | 52 | 10 | 18.2 | 9.1-33.0 | 2 | 3.5 | 0.8-14.6 | 40 | 78.3 | 63.3-88.3 |
Franklin/Nash/Wilson | 52 | 13 | 28.5 | 15.6-46.2 | 4 | 6.2 | 2.1-16.4 | 35 | 65.4 | 48.3-79.2 |
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne | 52 | 16 | 31.3 | 18.5-47.9 | 4 | 9.7 | 2.9-28.3 | 32 | 58.9 | 42.3-73.7 |
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender | 55 | 21 | 41.4 | 27.9-56.3 | 3 | 4.8 | 1.4-14.5 | 31 | 53.9 | 39.3-67.8 |
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance | 42 | 4 | 9.1 | 2.9-25.0 | 4 | 10.9 | 3.9-27.0 | 34 | 79.9 | 62.6-90.4 |
Chatham/Lee/Moore | 55 | 14 | 30.0 | 17.2-46.9 | 5 | 8.7 | 3.4-20.5 | 36 | 61.4 | 45.2-75.4 |
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly | 59 | 17 | 27.1 | 16.3-41.4 | 6 | 13.3 | 5.5-29.1 | 36 | 59.6 | 44.8-72.8 |
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin | 52 | 12 | 23.6 | 13.3-38.2 | 3 | 3.5 | 1.1-10.5 | 37 | 73.0 | 58.4-83.9 |
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes | 64 | 16 | 19.6 | 11.7-31.1 | 2 | 1.7 | 0.4- 6.9 | 46 | 78.6 | 67.1-86.9 |
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln | 51 | 18 | 36.7 | 23.1-52.7 | 8 | 14.8 | 7.1-28.6 | 25 | 48.5 | 33.8-63.5 |
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 69 | 20 | 30.9 | 19.6-45.0 | 2 | 1.2 | 0.2- 5.9 | 47 | 67.9 | 53.8-79.3 |
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP*** | ||||||||||
Yes | 132 | 27 | 19.9 | 13.4-28.5 | 12 | 9.0 | 4.7-16.6 | 93 | 71.0 | 61.6-79.0 |
No | 1,531 | 436 | 27.9 | 25.2-30.8 | 101 | 6.4 | 5.0- 8.1 | 994 | 65.7 | 62.7-68.6 |
NC REGIONS** | ||||||||||
Eastern NC | 572 | 155 | 29.2 | 24.7-34.1 | 40 | 7.1 | 4.7-10.4 | 377 | 63.8 | 58.6-68.6 |
Piedmont | 868 | 251 | 26.8 | 23.3-30.6 | 60 | 6.7 | 4.9- 9.1 | 557 | 66.5 | 62.5-70.3 |
Western NC | 223 | 57 | 25.6 | 19.3-33.0 | 13 | 5.4 | 2.8-10.0 | 153 | 69.1 | 61.4-75.8 |
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC) | ||||||||||
Mountain AHEC*** | 124 | 33 | 28.2 | 19.9-38.5 | 5 | 3.3 | 1.2- 8.4 | 86 | 68.5 | 58.2-77.2 |
Northwest | 343 | 98 | 25.6 | 20.5-31.5 | 21 | 5.8 | 3.4- 9.6 | 224 | 68.6 | 62.4-74.2 |
Charlotte | 234 | 73 | 29.8 | 22.8-37.9 | 18 | 6.9 | 4.0-11.4 | 143 | 63.3 | 55.3-70.7 |
Greensboro | 218 | 63 | 25.5 | 19.5-32.7 | 16 | 8.0 | 4.5-13.9 | 139 | 66.4 | 58.6-73.4 |
Southern Regional | 169 | 46 | 32.8 | 24.2-42.7 | 14 | 11.0 | 5.5-20.7 | 109 | 56.3 | 46.4-65.7 |
Coastal | 102 | 29 | 30.4 | 20.9-41.8 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.4- 4.7 | 70 | 68.2 | 56.8-77.7 |
Wake | 184 | 42 | 20.4 | 14.0-28.8 | 13 | 7.9 | 3.9-15.4 | 129 | 71.6 | 62.4-79.3 |
Area L | 75 | 17 | 23.4 | 13.7-37.1 | 7 | 10.0 | 4.4-21.5 | 51 | 66.5 | 52.6-78.0 |
Eastern | 214 | 62 | 30.4 | 23.4-38.3 | 16 | 5.7 | 3.3- 9.7 | 136 | 63.9 | 55.9-71.2 |
Asked only of those who had at least one fall in past 3 months.
^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.
**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.
***Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.
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