2013 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina**

Disability

Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have difficulty doing errands alone
such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping?*

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Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 8,731 874 7.8 7.1- 8.6 7,857 92.2 91.4-92.9
-Eastern NC 2,651 296 9.0 7.5-10.7 2,355 91.0 89.3-92.5
GENDER
Male 1,012 84 8.1 6.0-10.8 928 91.9 89.2-94.0
Female 1,639 212 9.9 7.9-12.3 1,427 90.1 87.7-92.1
RACE
White 1,522 136 7.4 5.9- 9.3 1,386 92.6 90.7-94.1
African American 639 97 12.4 9.0-16.8 542 87.6 83.2-91.0
Other minorities 447 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 2,528 288 9.0 7.5-10.8 2,240 91.0 89.2-92.5
AGE
18-34 424 21 6.1 3.5-10.5 403 93.9 89.5-96.5
35-54 762 76 9.1 6.7-12.4 686 90.9 87.6-93.3
55-64 571 72 10.8 7.8-14.8 499 89.2 85.2-92.2
65-74 500 56 8.9 6.2-12.5 444 91.1 87.5-93.8
75+ 365 69 17.9 13.2-23.8 296 82.1 76.2-86.8
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 373 87 21.9 16.0-29.1 286 78.1 70.9-84.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 795 95 8.4 6.1-11.5 700 91.6 88.5-93.9
Some Post-H.S. 768 78 6.4 4.6- 8.9 690 93.6 91.1-95.4
College Graduate 712 36 3.4 2.3- 5.1 676 96.6 94.9-97.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 374 95 24.0 17.4-32.0 279 76.0 68.0-82.6
$15,000- 24,999 484 74 11.9 8.6-16.3 410 88.1 83.7-91.4
$25,000- 34,999 279 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$35,000- 49,999 314 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 702 26 3.4 1.9- 5.9 676 96.6 94.1-98.1
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 821 263 31.9 27.1-37.0 558 68.1 63.0-72.9
No 1,811 *** *** *** *** *** ***
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 436 28 5.8 3.5- 9.4 408 94.2 90.6-96.5
Non-Veteran 2,214 268 9.7 8.0-11.7 1,946 90.3 88.3-92.0
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,957 235 9.4 7.7-11.4 1,722 90.6 88.6-92.3
No 694 61 7.4 4.9-11.2 633 92.6 88.8-95.1

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*These are new disability questions found in the demographic section of the Core questionnaire.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2013
are NOT comparable to 2010 and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2013 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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