2012 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont 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%)
North Carolina 11,782 2,849 19.7 18.9-20.6 8,933 80.3 79.4-81.1
-Piedmont NC 6,308 1,414 18.2 17.0-19.4 4,894 81.8 80.6-83.0
GENDER
Male 2,503 521 16.8 15.1-18.6 1,982 83.2 81.4-84.9
Female 3,805 893 19.5 18.0-21.1 2,912 80.5 78.9-82.0
RACE
White 4,582 1,077 19.2 17.8-20.6 3,505 80.8 79.4-82.2
African American 1,180 260 19.3 16.6-22.3 920 80.7 77.7-83.4
Other minorities 488 66 9.3 6.6-13.1 422 90.7 86.9-93.4
HISPANIC
Hispanic 411 43 8.3 6.0-11.5 368 91.7 88.5-94.0
Non-Hispanic 5,873 1,364 19.0 17.7-20.2 4,509 81.0 79.8-82.3
AGE
18-34 1,158 95 7.9 6.3- 9.9 1,063 92.1 90.1-93.7
35-54 2,080 404 17.7 15.8-19.8 1,676 82.3 80.2-84.2
55-64 1,179 344 28.6 25.4-32.2 835 71.4 67.8-74.6
65-74 1,033 289 26.0 22.8-29.4 744 74.0 70.6-77.2
75+ 797 273 33.2 29.3-37.4 524 66.8 62.6-70.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 767 226 25.5 21.7-29.7 541 74.5 70.3-78.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,732 438 19.5 17.4-21.8 1,294 80.5 78.2-82.6
Some Post-H.S. 1,696 407 18.4 16.3-20.6 1,289 81.6 79.4-83.7
College Graduate 2,091 338 12.3 10.8-14.0 1,753 87.7 86.0-89.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 693 286 34.7 30.4-39.3 407 65.3 60.7-69.6
$15,000- 24,999 1,051 288 21.9 19.0-25.1 763 78.1 74.9-81.0
$25,000- 34,999 652 149 17.7 14.6-21.3 503 82.3 78.7-85.4
$35,000- 49,999 763 154 16.9 14.1-20.1 609 83.1 79.9-85.9
$50,000+ 2,065 271 11.2 9.6-13.1 1,794 88.8 86.9-90.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 773 224 25.8 22.4-29.6 549 74.2 70.4-77.6
Non-Veteran 5,532 1,188 17.2 16.0-18.5 4,344 82.8 81.5-84.0

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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.

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.

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