2014 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina**

Disability

Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 7,035 394 4.8 4.3- 5.4 6,641 95.2 94.6-95.7
-Eastern NC 2,185 154 6.0 4.9- 7.2 2,031 94.0 92.8-95.1
GENDER
Male 903 75 7.6 5.7-10.0 828 92.4 90.0-94.3
Female 1,282 79 4.5 3.5- 5.9 1,203 95.5 94.1-96.5
RACE
White 1,427 75 4.5 3.4- 5.9 1,352 95.5 94.1-96.6
African American 544 57 8.2 5.9-11.2 487 91.8 88.8-94.1
Other minorities 189 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 123 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 2,052 147 6.1 5.0- 7.5 1,905 93.9 92.5-95.0
AGE
18-34 382 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-54 589 39 6.6 4.7- 9.2 550 93.4 90.8-95.3
55-64 504 46 8.8 6.2-12.4 458 91.2 87.6-93.8
65-74 411 34 7.5 5.1-10.8 377 92.5 89.2-94.9
75+ 279 27 9.0 5.8-13.6 252 91.0 86.4-94.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 272 39 12.8 8.7-18.6 233 87.2 81.4-91.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 666 49 5.8 4.1- 8.1 617 94.2 91.9-95.9
Some Post-H.S. 626 41 4.0 2.8- 5.8 585 96.0 94.2-97.2
College Graduate 613 24 3.6 2.3- 5.6 589 96.4 94.4-97.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 252 44 15.8 11.0-22.0 208 84.2 78.0-89.0
$15,000- 24,999 363 35 8.4 5.7-12.1 328 91.6 87.9-94.3
$25,000- 34,999 244 15 4.4 2.6- 7.5 229 95.6 92.5-97.4
$35,000- 49,999 257 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 643 *** *** *** *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 649 139 21.2 17.5-25.6 510 78.8 74.4-82.5
No 1,518 *** *** *** *** *** ***
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 367 27 7.0 4.5-10.6 340 93.0 89.4-95.5
Non-Veteran 1,816 126 5.7 4.5- 7.1 1,690 94.3 92.9-95.5
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,816 126 5.9 4.7- 7.3 1,690 94.1 92.7-95.3
No 369 28 6.4 4.2- 9.7 341 93.6 90.3-95.8

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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 2014 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2014 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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