2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability

Are you limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or emotional problems?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 11,782 2,849 19.7 18.9-20.6 8,933 80.3 79.4-81.1
GENDER
Male 4,593 1,068 18.8 17.5-20.2 3,525 81.2 79.8-82.5
Female 7,189 1,781 20.6 19.5-21.8 5,408 79.4 78.2-80.5
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 8,129 2,051 21.3 20.2-22.4 6,078 78.7 77.6-79.8
Non-Hispanic Black 2,134 478 18.7 16.7-20.8 1,656 81.3 79.2-83.3
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 450 164 36.0 28.9-43.7 286 64.0 56.3-71.1
Non-Hispanic Other 298 56 13.7 9.2-19.9 242 86.3 80.1-90.8
Hispanic 686 70 7.9 6.0-10.3 616 92.1 89.7-94.0
AGE
18-34 2,016 182 8.7 7.4-10.2 1,834 91.3 89.8-92.6
35-44 1,617 265 15.1 13.2-17.2 1,352 84.9 82.8-86.8
45-54 2,037 503 23.2 20.9-25.6 1,534 76.8 74.4-79.1
55-64 2,347 740 30.4 28.1-32.8 1,607 69.6 67.2-71.9
65-74 2,094 613 27.0 24.8-29.4 1,481 73.0 70.6-75.2
75+ 1,551 527 33.6 30.7-36.6 1,024 66.4 63.4-69.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 1,482 471 26.3 23.6-29.3 1,011 73.7 70.7-76.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 3,407 901 20.7 19.1-22.4 2,506 79.3 77.6-80.9
Some Post-H.S. 3,184 836 20.4 18.8-22.1 2,348 79.6 77.9-81.2
College Graduate 3,671 631 13.4 12.2-14.7 3,040 86.6 85.3-87.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 1,436 618 35.7 32.6-39.0 818 64.3 61.0-67.4
$15,000- 24,999 2,032 592 24.1 21.9-26.5 1,440 75.9 73.5-78.1
$25,000- 34,999 1,269 307 19.6 17.2-22.3 962 80.4 77.7-82.8
$35,000- 49,999 1,428 304 17.4 15.3-19.7 1,124 82.6 80.3-84.7
$50,000-74,999 1,379 238 15.5 13.3-18.0 1,141 84.5 82.0-86.7
$75,000+ 2,190 271 10.5 9.1-12.2 1,919 89.5 87.8-90.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,535 458 27.3 24.7-30.0 1,077 72.7 70.0-75.3
Non-Veteran 10,242 2,389 18.7 17.8-19.6 7,853 81.3 80.4-82.2

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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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