2014 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont 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
-Piedmont NC 3,858 186 4.1 3.5- 4.9 3,672 95.9 95.1-96.5
GENDER
Male 1,660 73 3.7 2.8- 4.7 1,587 96.3 95.3-97.2
Female 2,198 113 4.6 3.7- 5.7 2,085 95.4 94.3-96.3
RACE
White 2,715 116 3.6 2.9- 4.5 2,599 96.4 95.5-97.1
African American 782 57 6.0 4.4- 8.0 725 94.0 92.0-95.6
Other minorities 310 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 303 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 3,527 175 4.3 3.6- 5.1 3,352 95.7 94.9-96.4
AGE
18-34 713 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-54 1,168 56 5.1 3.8- 6.9 1,112 94.9 93.1-96.2
55-64 744 47 6.3 4.6- 8.6 697 93.7 91.4-95.4
65-74 683 32 4.5 3.1- 6.7 651 95.5 93.3-96.9
75+ 492 44 8.9 6.5-12.1 448 91.1 87.9-93.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 464 40 7.0 4.8-10.1 424 93.0 89.9-95.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 978 67 5.9 4.5- 7.8 911 94.1 92.2-95.5
Some Post-H.S. 980 49 3.9 2.8- 5.3 931 96.1 94.7-97.2
College Graduate 1,419 30 1.3 0.8- 2.0 1,389 98.7 98.0-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 386 59 14.4 10.7-19.2 327 85.6 80.8-89.3
$15,000- 24,999 604 48 6.1 4.4- 8.2 556 93.9 91.8-95.6
$25,000- 34,999 350 15 3.8 2.2- 6.5 335 96.2 93.5-97.8
$35,000- 49,999 428 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 1,324 *** *** *** *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 977 170 17.5 14.9-20.6 807 82.5 79.4-85.1
No 2,861 *** *** *** *** *** ***
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 458 26 5.3 3.4- 8.2 432 94.7 91.8-96.6
Non-Veteran 3,396 160 4.0 3.3- 4.8 3,236 96.0 95.2-96.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,407 76 4.5 3.5- 5.9 1,331 95.5 94.1-96.5
No 2,451 110 3.9 3.1- 4.9 2,341 96.1 95.1-96.9

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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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