SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2007 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Sexual & Physical Violence

Has a partner or ex-partner ever forced you to have sex or to do sexual things?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes, within the past 12 months Yes, more than 12 months ago No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,762 26 1.0 0.5- 2.0 295 3.4 2.8- 4.0 6,441 95.7 94.7-96.4
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance 154 1 1.9 0.3-12.2 7 4.3 1.8-10.1 146 93.8 86.2-97.3
Buncombe 158 0 0.0 . - . 9 3.3 1.6- 6.7 149 96.7 93.3-98.4
Cabarrus 167 0 0.0 . - . 10 3.8 1.8- 7.7 157 96.2 92.3-98.2
Catawba 188 0 0.0 . - . 8 4.3 1.4-12.9 180 95.7 87.1-98.6
Cumberland 163 0 0.0 . - . 9 6.0 3.0-11.7 154 94.0 88.3-97.0
Davidson 167 0 0.0 . - . 6 3.0 1.3- 7.0 161 97.0 93.0-98.7
Durham 157 0 0.0 . - . 7 3.6 1.6- 7.7 150 96.4 92.3-98.4
Forsyth 172 2 0.9 0.2- 3.5 2 2.7 0.6-11.2 168 96.5 89.1-98.9
Gaston 172 0 0.0 . - . 7 2.3 1.0- 5.3 165 97.7 94.7-99.0
Guilford 172 1 0.2 0.0- 1.5 6 2.4 0.8- 6.8 165 97.4 93.1-99.0
Iredell 186 1 0.6 0.1- 4.3 5 1.8 0.6- 5.5 180 97.6 93.7-99.1
Johnston 199 1 0.2 0.0- 1.2 8 2.5 1.1- 5.5 190 97.3 94.4-98.8
Mecklenburg 324 3 2.2 0.5- 8.9 11 2.4 1.3- 4.5 310 95.4 90.4-97.8
New Hanover 182 0 0.0 . - . 4 1.9 0.6- 5.4 178 98.1 94.6-99.4
Onslow 179 2 1.4 0.3- 7.7 17 8.4 4.4-15.2 160 90.2 82.9-94.6
Orange 170 0 0.0 . - . 7 4.1 1.3-12.5 163 95.9 87.5-98.7
Pitt 162 1 2.3 0.3-14.5 9 4.8 2.2- 9.8 152 93.0 85.1-96.8
Randolph 182 0 0.0 . - . 6 4.9 2.0-11.5 176 95.1 88.5-98.0
Robeson 182 2 1.6 0.4- 6.5 8 2.3 1.1- 4.7 172 96.1 92.0-98.1
Rowan 202 0 0.0 . - . 12 3.9 2.1- 7.3 190 96.1 92.7-97.9
Union 173 2 1.0 0.2- 3.8 7 4.3 1.6-11.4 164 94.7 87.9-97.8
Wake 284 2 3.1 0.5-16.6 7 1.5 0.7- 3.4 275 95.4 85.4-98.6
Wayne 168 1 0.5 0.1- 3.7 9 3.5 1.7- 7.1 158 96.0 92.2-98.0
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 2,179 9 0.6 0.2- 1.3 96 3.4 2.6- 4.3 2,074 96.1 95.0-96.9
Piedmont 3,280 16 1.4 0.6- 3.1 130 3.2 2.5- 4.2 3,134 95.4 93.8-96.6
Western NC 1,303 1 0.1 0.0- 0.5 69 3.8 2.9- 5.0 1,233 96.1 95.0-97.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CTRS. (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 808 1 0.1 0.0- 0.8 45 3.8 2.7- 5.2 762 96.1 94.7-97.2
Northwest 1,469 4 0.8 0.2- 3.2 60 3.9 2.5- 5.8 1,405 95.3 93.0-96.9
Charlotte 948 7 1.8 0.6- 5.2 40 2.9 1.9- 4.2 901 95.3 92.6-97.1
Greensboro 792 2 0.3 0.1- 1.6 31 4.1 2.3- 7.2 759 95.6 92.5-97.5
Southern Regional 603 2 0.3 0.1- 1.1 29 4.4 2.7- 7.0 572 95.3 92.7-97.1
Coastal 332 0 0.0 . - . 8 1.7 0.8- 3.5 324 98.3 96.5-99.2
Wake 723 4 1.9 0.3- 9.4 29 2.4 1.6- 3.7 690 95.7 91.1-98.0
Area L 164 2 2.5 0.6- 9.8 4 2.3 0.8- 6.6 158 95.3 88.7-98.1
Eastern 923 4 0.5 0.2- 1.8 49 3.9 2.8- 5.6 870 95.5 93.7-96.8

Back to Sexual & Physical Violence.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 07MAY08.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook