2012 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont North Carolina**

Adverse Childhood Experience

Living with an Alcoholic OR Drug Abuser*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 10,977 2,777 26.8 25.7-27.9 8,200 73.2 72.1-74.3
-Piedmont NC 5,841 1,526 26.6 25.1-28.1 4,315 73.4 71.9-74.9
GENDER
Male 2,304 566 25.2 22.9-27.7 1,738 74.8 72.3-77.1
Female 3,537 960 27.8 25.9-29.8 2,577 72.2 70.2-74.1
RACE
White 4,256 1,113 26.9 25.2-28.7 3,143 73.1 71.3-74.8
African American 1,076 287 26.4 23.2-30.0 789 73.6 70.0-76.8
Other minorities 457 116 24.8 19.5-31.1 341 75.2 68.9-80.5
HISPANIC
Hispanic 387 94 26.4 21.0-32.5 293 73.6 67.5-79.0
Non-Hispanic 5,435 1,430 26.7 25.1-28.3 4,005 73.3 71.7-74.9
AGE
18-34 983 295 29.9 26.6-33.5 688 70.1 66.5-73.4
35-54 1,950 556 26.6 24.3-29.1 1,394 73.4 70.9-75.7
55-64 1,126 325 29.6 26.2-33.3 801 70.4 66.7-73.8
65-74 983 230 22.1 19.0-25.6 753 77.9 74.4-81.0
75+ 745 112 13.9 11.2-17.2 633 86.1 82.8-88.8
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 723 219 33.0 28.5-37.8 504 67.0 62.2-71.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,611 434 28.8 25.8-31.9 1,177 71.2 68.1-74.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,567 433 26.5 23.9-29.3 1,134 73.5 70.7-76.1
College Graduate 1,920 436 20.6 18.5-22.8 1,484 79.4 77.2-81.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 644 227 36.8 32.0-41.9 417 63.2 58.1-68.0
$15,000- 24,999 976 278 30.1 26.5-34.1 698 69.9 65.9-73.5
$25,000- 34,999 595 163 28.7 23.7-34.2 432 71.3 65.8-76.3
$35,000- 49,999 715 171 23.4 19.7-27.6 544 76.6 72.4-80.3
$50,000+ 1,927 465 22.9 20.6-25.3 1,462 77.1 74.7-79.4
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,483 512 36.8 33.5-40.2 971 63.2 59.8-66.5
No 4,336 1,008 23.9 22.3-25.6 3,328 76.1 74.4-77.7
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 700 166 24.2 20.5-28.2 534 75.8 71.8-79.5
Non-Veteran 5,139 1,360 26.9 25.3-28.6 3,779 73.1 71.4-74.7

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*A drug abuser refers to a household member who used illegal street drugs or who abused prescription medications.

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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