2013 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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
COUNTY/REGIONS
Buncombe 284 30 9.9 6.1-15.6 254 90.1 84.4-93.9
Cumberland 380 33 8.2 4.7-14.0 347 91.8 86.0-95.3
Durham 343 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Forsyth 346 35 5.7 3.8- 8.6 311 94.3 91.4-96.2
Gaston 307 43 10.5 6.9-15.7 264 89.5 84.3-93.1
Guilford 368 33 7.5 4.7-11.8 335 92.5 88.2-95.3
Mecklenburg 490 28 5.2 3.3- 8.1 462 94.8 91.9-96.7
New Hanover 314 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Union 286 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 496 23 4.6 2.8- 7.3 473 95.4 92.7-97.2
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 2,651 296 9.0 7.5-10.7 2,355 91.0 89.3-92.5
Piedmont 5,090 464 6.8 6.0- 7.8 4,626 93.2 92.2-94.0
Western NC 990 114 9.2 7.1-11.8 876 90.8 88.2-92.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 709 78 8.3 6.1-11.2 631 91.7 88.8-93.9
Northwest 1,418 160 8.6 6.9-10.7 1,258 91.4 89.3-93.1
Charlotte 1,510 147 7.0 5.5- 8.8 1,363 93.0 91.2-94.5
Greensboro 1,079 104 8.6 6.6-11.1 975 91.4 88.9-93.4
Southern Regional 1,225 138 8.7 6.4-11.7 1,087 91.3 88.3-93.6
Southeast 544 48 6.7 4.4-10.3 496 93.3 89.7-95.6
Wake 1,313 99 6.1 4.6- 8.0 1,214 93.9 92.0-95.4
Area L & Eastern 933 100 8.6 6.5-11.3 833 91.4 88.7-93.5

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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.

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