2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability

Disability Status*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 11,759 3,190 21.7 20.8-22.6 8,569 78.3 77.4-79.2
GENDER
Male 4,584 1,192 20.9 19.5-22.3 3,392 79.1 77.7-80.5
Female 7,175 1,998 22.4 21.3-23.6 5,177 77.6 76.4-78.7
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 8,117 2,275 23.2 22.1-24.3 5,842 76.8 75.7-77.9
Non-Hispanic Black 2,130 572 21.7 19.6-23.9 1,558 78.3 76.1-80.4
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 449 182 38.3 31.2-46.0 267 61.7 54.0-68.8
Non-Hispanic Other 298 57 13.9 9.3-20.1 241 86.1 79.9-90.7
Hispanic 683 74 8.5 6.5-10.9 609 91.5 89.1-93.5
AGE
18-34 2,012 192 9.0 7.7-10.6 1,820 91.0 89.4-92.3
35-44 1,614 274 15.6 13.6-17.8 1,340 84.4 82.2-86.4
45-54 2,030 531 24.8 22.5-27.2 1,499 75.2 72.8-77.5
55-64 2,346 801 33.2 30.8-35.6 1,545 66.8 64.4-69.2
65-74 2,092 681 30.5 28.2-33.0 1,411 69.5 67.0-71.8
75+ 1,548 689 42.1 39.0-45.2 859 57.9 54.8-61.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 1,476 571 30.6 27.7-33.7 905 69.4 66.3-72.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 3,401 1,005 22.6 21.0-24.3 2,396 77.4 75.7-79.0
Some Post-H.S. 3,182 899 21.8 20.1-23.5 2,283 78.2 76.5-79.9
College Graduate 3,662 703 14.7 13.4-16.1 2,959 85.3 83.9-86.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 1,433 685 38.8 35.6-42.1 748 61.2 57.9-64.4
$15,000- 24,999 2,028 676 26.6 24.3-29.1 1,352 73.4 70.9-75.7
$25,000- 34,999 1,266 338 21.2 18.6-23.9 928 78.8 76.1-81.4
$35,000- 49,999 1,425 334 19.7 17.4-22.3 1,091 80.3 77.7-82.6
$50,000-74,999 1,378 247 16.2 13.9-18.7 1,131 83.8 81.3-86.1
$75,000+ 2,189 302 11.5 10.0-13.2 1,887 88.5 86.8-90.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,532 519 30.6 27.9-33.4 1,013 69.4 66.6-72.1
Non-Veteran 10,222 2,668 20.5 19.5-21.4 7,554 79.5 78.6-80.5

Back to Disability.

In 2011, the definition for disability status changed: only the 2 questions in the BRFSS Core Questionnaire have been used to define the North Carolina disability population. In previous years, the NC disability population was defined by 4 screener questions. These included the 2 core questions and the 2 North Carolina questions on self-perceived disability and trouble learning, remembering, or concentrating.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2012 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2012 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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