2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-Non-Hispanic Black

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,548 1,258 16.5 15.5-17.6 5,290 83.5 82.4-84.5
-Non-Hispanic Black 1,260 315 20.4 18.0-23.1 945 79.6 76.9-82.0
GENDER
Male 474 100 16.4 13.1-20.3 374 83.6 79.7-86.9
Female 786 215 23.8 20.5-27.5 571 76.2 72.5-79.5
AGE
18-34 245 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-44 206 29 12.8 8.6-18.7 177 87.2 81.3-91.4
45-54 249 76 30.1 24.0-37.1 173 69.9 62.9-76.0
55-64 273 103 37.7 30.7-45.2 170 62.3 54.8-69.3
65-74 177 53 31.6 23.6-40.8 124 68.4 59.2-76.4
75+ 98 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 157 80 43.1 33.9-52.7 77 56.9 47.3-66.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 456 117 18.6 15.2-22.5 339 81.4 77.5-84.8
Some Post-H.S. 347 84 18.1 14.2-22.8 263 81.9 77.2-85.8
College Graduate 299 34 8.1 5.5-11.8 265 91.9 88.2-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 178 79 39.0 30.3-48.4 99 61.0 51.6-69.7
$15,000- 24,999 298 102 28.7 23.1-35.0 196 71.3 65.0-76.9
$25,000- 34,999 122 22 14.9 9.0-23.7 100 85.1 76.3-91.0
$35,000- 49,999 138 18 9.8 5.7-16.1 120 90.2 83.9-94.3
$50,000- 74,999 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 137 13 7.5 4.2-13.2 124 92.5 86.8-95.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 356 248 66.0 59.6-71.9 108 34.0 28.1-40.4
No 899 64 5.2 3.9- 6.9 835 94.8 93.1-96.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 160 41 23.0 16.5-31.2 119 77.0 68.8-83.5
Non-Veteran 1,098 274 20.1 17.5-22.9 824 79.9 77.1-82.5
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 480 93 16.8 13.4-21.0 387 83.2 79.0-86.6
Regional City or Suburban 213 60 21.1 16.1-27.3 153 78.9 72.7-83.9
Rural 567 162 24.2 20.2-28.7 405 75.8 71.3-79.8

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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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