2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-Females

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
-FEMALES 3,744 448 12.1 10.9-13.5 3,296 87.9 86.5-89.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 2,515 279 11.2 9.7-12.8 2,236 88.8 87.2-90.3
Non-Hispanic Black 786 115 14.6 12.0-17.7 671 85.4 82.3-88.0
Other 401 49 13.0 9.3-17.8 352 87.0 82.2-90.7
AGE
18-34 638 69 10.7 8.3-13.7 569 89.3 86.3-91.7
35-44 508 60 11.3 8.5-14.8 448 88.7 85.2-91.5
45-54 634 90 14.0 11.2-17.4 544 86.0 82.6-88.8
55-64 726 104 16.1 12.9-19.8 622 83.9 80.2-87.1
65-74 689 56 8.0 5.9-10.8 633 92.0 89.2-94.1
75+ 493 67 14.3 11.0-18.4 426 85.7 81.6-89.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 380 92 24.1 19.3-29.6 288 75.9 70.4-80.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,003 142 12.6 10.4-15.3 861 87.4 84.7-89.6
Some Post-H.S. 1,097 133 11.4 9.4-13.7 964 88.6 86.3-90.6
College Graduate 1,254 79 5.8 4.5- 7.4 1,175 94.2 92.6-95.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 392 109 30.1 24.6-36.3 283 69.9 63.7-75.4
$15,000- 24,999 636 111 16.4 13.3-19.9 525 83.6 80.1-86.7
$25,000- 34,999 323 26 7.8 4.9-12.1 297 92.2 87.9-95.1
$35,000- 49,999 398 36 9.9 6.9-14.1 362 90.1 85.9-93.1
$50,000- 74,999 406 27 6.9 4.5-10.5 379 93.1 89.5-95.5
$75,000+ 717 27 3.5 2.3- 5.4 690 96.5 94.6-97.7
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,067 315 32.0 28.6-35.5 752 68.0 64.5-71.4
No 2,663 128 5.1 4.1- 6.3 2,535 94.9 93.7-95.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 126 16 15.3 9.1-24.5 110 84.7 75.5-90.9
Non-Veteran 3,611 431 12.0 10.8-13.4 3,180 88.0 86.6-89.2
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,097 114 10.4 8.5-12.7 983 89.6 87.3-91.5
Regional City or Suburban 794 92 12.8 10.1-15.9 702 87.2 84.1-89.9
Rural 1,853 242 13.1 11.3-15.1 1,611 86.9 84.9-88.7

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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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