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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 | 12,259 | 8,169 | 66.6 | 65.5-67.7 | 2,480 | 20.4 | 19.5-21.4 | 1,085 | 8.9 | 8.2- 9.6 | 398 | 3.2 | 2.8- 3.6 | 127 | 0.9 | 0.7- 1.2 |
| -Mecklenburg County | 521 | 358 | 66.4 | 61.3-71.1 | 102 | 21.1 | 17.1-25.7 | 43 | 9.2 | 6.5-12.7 | 13 | 2.3 | 1.3- 4.0 | 5 | 1.1 | 0.4- 3.5 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 219 | 162 | 69.7 | 62.0-76.5 | 35 | 17.9 | 12.6-24.9 | 19 | 10.1 | 6.2-16.0 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.1- 4.2 | 2 | 1.6 | 0.4- 6.4 |
| Female | 302 | 196 | 62.3 | 55.9-68.4 | 67 | 24.8 | 19.5-31.0 | 24 | 8.0 | 5.2-12.1 | 12 | 4.2 | 2.3- 7.5 | 3 | 0.6 | 0.2- 1.9 |
| RACE | ||||||||||||||||
| White | 385 | 271 | 66.8 | 61.0-72.1 | 74 | 20.5 | 16.0-25.8 | 29 | 9.7 | 6.5-14.2 | 9 | 2.4 | 1.2- 4.8 | 2 | 0.6 | 0.1- 3.1 |
| Other | 136 | 87 | 65.6 | 55.6-74.3 | 28 | 22.2 | 15.0-31.6 | 14 | 8.1 | 4.3-14.6 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.7- 5.4 | 3 | 2.2 | 0.5- 9.0 |
| AGE | ||||||||||||||||
| 40-44 | 66 | 45 | 69.1 | 55.8-79.9 | 17 | 23.5 | 14.4-35.9 | 3 | 5.8 | 1.9-16.9 | 1 | 1.6 | 0.2-10.4 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . |
| 45+ | 455 | 313 | 65.6 | 60.2-70.7 | 85 | 20.4 | 16.2-25.4 | 40 | 10.0 | 7.1-14.0 | 12 | 2.4 | 1.3- 4.4 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.5- 4.4 |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 141 | 94 | 63.4 | 52.9-72.8 | 27 | 22.2 | 14.7-32.2 | 16 | 12.0 | 6.7-20.4 | 3 | 2.1 | 0.6- 6.7 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0- 2.2 |
| Some College + | 379 | 263 | 67.6 | 61.8-72.9 | 75 | 20.6 | 16.2-25.9 | 27 | 8.0 | 5.3-12.0 | 10 | 2.3 | 1.2- 4.5 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.4- 4.9 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 218 | 143 | 65.3 | 57.0-72.7 | 43 | 20.3 | 14.4-27.9 | 22 | 10.5 | 6.4-16.6 | 6 | 2.3 | 1.0- 5.3 | 4 | 1.6 | 0.5- 5.0 |
| $50,000+ | 227 | 153 | 64.1 | 56.6-70.9 | 50 | 23.1 | 17.4-30.1 | 17 | 9.2 | 5.5-14.9 | 6 | 2.5 | 1.1- 5.8 | 1 | 1.1 | 0.2- 7.3 |
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^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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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