2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-FEMALES

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 7,042 1,780 21.5 20.4-22.6 5,262 78.5 77.4-79.6
-FEMALES 4,057 1,093 22.8 21.3-24.3 2,964 77.2 75.7-78.7
RACE
White 2,869 813 24.8 23.0-26.7 2,056 75.2 73.3-77.0
African American 875 215 19.5 16.8-22.5 660 80.5 77.5-83.2
Other Minorities 263 52 14.1 10.2-19.0 211 85.9 81.0-89.8
AGE
18-34 650 54 8.1 6.0-10.8 596 91.9 89.2-94.0
35-44 511 78 16.6 13.2-20.7 433 83.4 79.3-86.8
45-54 607 163 27.4 23.4-31.8 444 72.6 68.2-76.6
55-64 807 296 35.2 31.6-39.0 511 64.8 61.0-68.4
65-74 807 259 32.7 29.1-36.6 548 67.3 63.4-70.9
75+ 620 235 36.7 32.4-41.1 385 63.3 58.9-67.6
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 454 163 32.9 27.9-38.3 291 67.1 61.7-72.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,123 323 24.1 21.4-27.1 800 75.9 72.9-78.6
Some Post-H.S. 1,121 330 23.1 20.5-25.9 791 76.9 74.1-79.5
College Graduate 1,341 271 15.3 13.4-17.5 1,070 84.7 82.5-86.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 475 218 40.3 35.1-45.7 257 59.7 54.3-64.9
$15,000- 24,999 700 213 25.1 21.7-28.9 487 74.9 71.1-78.3
$25,000- 34,999 413 111 21.6 17.4-26.4 302 78.4 73.6-82.6
$35,000- 49,999 461 119 23.9 19.0-29.6 342 76.1 70.4-81.0
$50,000- 74,999 403 87 19.5 15.5-24.3 316 80.5 75.7-84.5
$75,000+ 704 92 11.1 8.7-13.9 612 88.9 86.1-91.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 107 24 19.0 12.2-28.3 83 81.0 71.7-87.8
Non-Veteran 3,948 1,069 22.9 21.4-24.4 2,879 77.1 75.6-78.6
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 2,332 653 23.9 21.9-26.0 1,679 76.1 74.0-78.1
No 1,725 440 21.3 19.2-23.6 1,285 78.7 76.4-80.8

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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.

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