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| Total Respond.^ |
1 fall | 2 or more falls | No falls | |||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 7,879 | 1,118 | 13.4 | 12.4-14.4 | 1,112 | 13.7 | 12.7-14.7 | 5,649 | 73.0 | 71.7-74.2 |
| -MALES | 2,949 | 341 | 11.0 | 9.6-12.6 | 407 | 13.5 | 12.0-15.1 | 2,201 | 75.5 | 73.4-77.5 |
| RACE | ||||||||||
| White | 2,265 | 282 | 11.6 | 10.0-13.3 | 308 | 14.2 | 12.4-16.2 | 1,675 | 74.2 | 71.8-76.4 |
| African American | 449 | 37 | 9.2 | 6.1-13.7 | 53 | 10.5 | 7.8-14.1 | 359 | 80.3 | 75.2-84.5 |
| Other Minorities | 220 | 22 | 10.7 | 6.1-18.2 | 45 | 14.4 | 8.9-22.4 | 153 | 74.9 | 65.6-82.4 |
| AGE | ||||||||||
| 45-54 | 782 | 87 | 10.8 | 8.3-13.9 | 115 | 14.1 | 11.4-17.2 | 580 | 75.2 | 71.3-78.7 |
| 55-64 | 917 | 88 | 10.4 | 8.0-13.4 | 135 | 14.6 | 11.9-17.9 | 694 | 75.0 | 71.1-78.5 |
| 65-74 | 776 | 89 | 10.9 | 8.6-13.7 | 84 | 10.0 | 7.8-12.8 | 603 | 79.1 | 75.5-82.3 |
| 75+ | 472 | 76 | 13.5 | 10.4-17.4 | 72 | 14.6 | 11.1-18.9 | 324 | 71.9 | 66.7-76.6 |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||
| Less Than H.S. | 391 | 49 | 11.9 | 7.9-17.7 | 77 | 19.0 | 14.7-24.1 | 265 | 69.1 | 62.8-74.8 |
| H.S. or G.E.D. | 819 | 86 | 9.4 | 7.4-12.0 | 124 | 14.0 | 11.4-17.0 | 609 | 76.6 | 73.0-79.8 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 734 | 86 | 12.1 | 9.5-15.3 | 105 | 13.6 | 10.7-17.1 | 543 | 74.3 | 70.2-78.1 |
| College Graduate | 996 | 120 | 11.0 | 9.0-13.5 | 100 | 9.0 | 7.0-11.6 | 776 | 79.9 | 76.7-82.8 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | ||||||||||
| Less than $15,000 | 322 | 38 | 7.6 | 5.1-11.0 | 87 | 29.0 | 22.8-36.0 | 197 | 63.5 | 56.4-70.0 |
| $15,000- 24,999 | 450 | 59 | 12.0 | 8.8-16.0 | 69 | 16.0 | 12.2-20.7 | 322 | 72.1 | 66.7-76.9 |
| $25,000- 34,999 | 324 | 32 | 8.4 | 5.5-12.7 | 44 | 14.9 | 10.7-20.3 | 248 | 76.7 | 70.7-81.8 |
| $35,000- 49,999 | 401 | 58 | 15.3 | 10.9-21.2 | 52 | 12.1 | 8.8-16.5 | 291 | 72.5 | 66.3-77.9 |
| $50,000- 74,999 | 367 | 41 | 9.8 | 6.9-13.7 | 39 | 11.7 | 7.5-17.7 | 287 | 78.5 | 72.3-83.6 |
| $75,000+ | 700 | 69 | 9.0 | 6.7-12.0 | 57 | 7.7 | 5.5-10.6 | 574 | 83.3 | 79.5-86.5 |
| DISABILITY STATUS | ||||||||||
| Yes | 957 | 154 | 15.8 | 12.8-19.3 | 279 | 29.8 | 26.1-33.7 | 524 | 54.4 | 50.3-58.5 |
| No | 1,975 | 184 | 8.9 | 7.4-10.6 | 127 | 6.5 | 5.3- 8.0 | 1,664 | 84.6 | 82.5-86.5 |
| VETERAN STATUS | ||||||||||
| Veteran | 1,145 | 150 | 12.3 | 10.2-14.6 | 154 | 13.9 | 11.6-16.6 | 841 | 73.8 | 70.6-76.8 |
| Non-Veteran | 1,803 | 191 | 10.4 | 8.6-12.5 | 253 | 13.2 | 11.4-15.4 | 1,359 | 76.4 | 73.7-78.9 |
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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