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| Total Respond.^ |
Yes | No | |||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 6,523 | 5,753 | 84.1 | 82.9-85.3 | 770 | 15.9 | 14.7-17.1 |
| -FEMALES | 3,734 | 3,372 | 86.6 | 84.9-88.0 | 362 | 13.4 | 12.0-15.1 |
| RACE | |||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 2,502 | 2,319 | 89.3 | 87.4-91.0 | 183 | 10.7 | 9.0-12.6 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 794 | 724 | 87.2 | 83.6-90.1 | 70 | 12.8 | 9.9-16.4 |
| Other | 398 | 292 | 69.4 | 63.5-74.8 | 106 | 30.6 | 25.2-36.5 |
| AGE | |||||||
| 18-34 | 606 | 392 | 62.9 | 58.2-67.4 | 214 | 37.1 | 32.6-41.8 |
| 35-44 | 510 | 451 | 89.7 | 86.4-92.3 | 59 | 10.3 | 7.7-13.6 |
| 45-54 | 642 | 593 | 92.7 | 90.3-94.6 | 49 | 7.3 | 5.4- 9.7 |
| 55-64 | 731 | 708 | 97.5 | 96.0-98.5 | 23 | 2.5 | 1.5- 4.0 |
| 65-74 | 689 | 681 | 99.1 | 98.0-99.6 | *** | *** | *** |
| 75+ | 495 | 487 | 98.7 | 97.2-99.4 | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | |||||||
| Less Than H.S. | 379 | 322 | 81.4 | 75.3-86.3 | 57 | 18.6 | 13.7-24.7 |
| H.S. or G.E.D. | 1,007 | 894 | 84.5 | 81.1-87.3 | 113 | 15.5 | 12.7-18.9 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 1,093 | 990 | 87.0 | 84.2-89.4 | 103 | 13.0 | 10.6-15.8 |
| College Graduate | 1,246 | 1,159 | 90.9 | 88.6-92.8 | 87 | 9.1 | 7.2-11.4 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||
| Less than $15,000 | 412 | 348 | 76.7 | 70.5-82.0 | 64 | 23.3 | 18.0-29.5 |
| $15,000- 24,999 | 626 | 539 | 81.9 | 77.2-85.8 | 87 | 18.1 | 14.2-22.8 |
| $25,000- 34,999 | 323 | 289 | 87.1 | 81.8-91.0 | 34 | 12.9 | 9.0-18.2 |
| $35,000- 49,999 | 392 | 360 | 89.5 | 84.5-93.0 | 32 | 10.5 | 7.0-15.5 |
| $50,000- 74,999 | 401 | 367 | 89.0 | 84.3-92.4 | 34 | 11.0 | 7.6-15.7 |
| $75,000+ | 714 | 676 | 92.1 | 88.9-94.4 | 38 | 7.9 | 5.6-11.1 |
| DISABILITY STATUS | |||||||
| Yes | 1,058 | 1,010 | 94.7 | 92.7-96.1 | 48 | 5.3 | 3.9- 7.3 |
| No | 2,605 | 2,301 | 83.8 | 81.7-85.7 | 304 | 16.2 | 14.3-18.3 |
| VETERAN STATUS | |||||||
| Veteran | 124 | 118 | 93.6 | 85.6-97.3 | *** | *** | *** |
| Non-Veteran | 3,603 | 3,249 | 86.4 | 84.7-87.9 | 354 | 13.6 | 12.1-15.3 |
| RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY | |||||||
| Urban | 1,091 | 971 | 86.5 | 83.9-88.8 | 120 | 13.5 | 11.2-16.1 |
| Regional City or Suburban | 793 | 713 | 85.6 | 81.9-88.7 | 80 | 14.4 | 11.3-18.1 |
| Rural | 1,850 | 1,688 | 87.1 | 84.5-89.3 | 162 | 12.9 | 10.7-15.5 |
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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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