2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 6,543 345 5.0 4.4- 5.7 6,198 95.0 94.3-95.6
GENDER
Male 2,800 148 4.7 3.9- 5.7 2,652 95.3 94.3-96.1
Female 3,743 197 5.2 4.4- 6.2 3,546 94.8 93.8-95.6
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 4,414 216 4.7 4.0- 5.6 4,198 95.3 94.4-96.0
Non-Hispanic Black 1,258 98 7.0 5.5- 8.8 1,160 93.0 91.2-94.5
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 90 *** *** *** 81 91.2 81.4-96.0
Non-Hispanic Other 212 11 3.6 1.8- 7.0 201 96.4 93.0-98.2
Hispanic 483 *** *** *** 474 98.4 96.4-99.3
AGE
18-34 1,224 *** *** *** 1,215 99.2 98.3-99.6
35-44 912 38 4.0 2.7- 5.8 874 96.0 94.2-97.3
45-54 1,142 75 7.7 5.9- 9.9 1,067 92.3 90.1-94.1
55-64 1,314 104 8.8 7.0-11.0 1,210 91.2 89.0-93.0
65-74 1,125 59 5.8 4.0- 8.2 1,066 94.2 91.8-96.0
75+ 742 58 7.8 5.9-10.3 684 92.2 89.7-94.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 698 83 10.7 8.2-13.8 615 89.3 86.2-91.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,809 109 4.9 3.9- 6.1 1,700 95.1 93.9-96.1
Some Post-H.S. 1,808 102 4.7 3.8- 5.9 1,706 95.3 94.1-96.2
College Graduate 2,197 50 1.9 1.3- 2.5 2,147 98.1 97.5-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 603 88 14.2 11.0-18.1 515 85.8 81.9-89.0
$15,000- 24,999 1,085 91 7.9 6.2-10.1 994 92.1 89.9-93.8
$25,000- 34,999 572 29 6.0 3.7- 9.6 543 94.0 90.4-96.3
$35,000- 49,999 735 22 2.5 1.5- 4.1 713 97.5 95.9-98.5
$50,000-74,999 811 21 2.7 1.6- 4.5 790 97.3 95.5-98.4
$75,000+ 1,419 23 1.3 0.8- 2.0 1,396 98.7 98.0-99.2
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,753 323 19.5 17.2-22.0 1,430 80.5 78.0-82.8
No 4,764 20 0.3 0.2- 0.6 4,744 99.7 99.4-99.8
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 883 64 6.7 5.1- 8.8 819 93.3 91.2-94.9
Non-Veteran 5,641 279 4.7 4.1- 5.4 5,362 95.3 94.6-95.9
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,928 77 4.1 3.1- 5.3 1,851 95.9 94.7-96.9
Regional City or Suburban 1,426 62 4.1 3.1- 5.4 1,364 95.9 94.6-96.9
Rural 3,189 206 6.2 5.2- 7.3 2,983 93.8 92.7-94.8

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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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