2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-Non-Hispanic Black

Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating,
remembering, or making decisions?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,548 752 11.6 10.7-12.5 5,796 88.4 87.5-89.3
-Non-Hispanic Black 1,259 180 13.9 11.8-16.3 1,079 86.1 83.7-88.2
GENDER
Male 473 65 13.0 9.9-16.9 408 87.0 83.1-90.1
Female 786 115 14.6 12.0-17.7 671 85.4 82.3-88.0
AGE
18-34 245 23 8.8 5.7-13.5 222 91.2 86.5-94.3
35-44 205 29 13.5 9.1-19.6 176 86.5 80.4-90.9
45-54 249 44 18.7 13.6-25.1 205 81.3 74.9-86.4
55-64 274 44 17.4 12.5-23.8 230 82.6 76.2-87.5
65-74 177 18 11.7 7.1-18.6 159 88.3 81.4-92.9
75+ 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 158 46 24.6 17.8-33.0 112 75.4 67.0-82.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 454 67 14.3 11.0-18.4 387 85.7 81.6-89.0
Some Post-H.S. 346 47 12.6 9.1-17.2 299 87.4 82.8-90.9
College Graduate 300 19 5.6 3.4- 9.1 281 94.4 90.9-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 179 46 27.7 20.2-36.8 133 72.3 63.2-79.8
$15,000- 24,999 297 46 13.3 9.7-17.9 251 86.7 82.1-90.3
$25,000- 34,999 122 16 13.9 8.2-22.5 106 86.1 77.5-91.8
$35,000- 49,999 139 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000- 74,999 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 354 120 35.1 29.4-41.4 234 64.9 58.6-70.6
No 900 57 6.7 5.0- 8.9 843 93.3 91.1-95.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 160 27 14.6 9.7-21.3 133 85.4 78.7-90.3
Non-Veteran 1,097 152 13.8 11.5-16.4 945 86.2 83.6-88.5
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 479 53 12.1 9.0-16.0 426 87.9 84.0-91.0
Regional City or Suburban 213 34 17.1 11.9-24.0 179 82.9 76.0-88.1
Rural 567 93 14.5 11.6-18.0 474 85.5 82.0-88.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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