2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-Males

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
-MALES 2,804 304 11.0 9.6-12.4 2,500 89.0 87.6-90.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 1,902 193 10.6 9.0-12.5 1,709 89.4 87.5-91.0
Non-Hispanic Black 473 65 13.0 9.9-16.9 408 87.0 83.1-90.1
Other 383 40 9.7 6.8-13.6 343 90.3 86.4-93.2
AGE
18-34 588 64 10.8 8.3-13.8 524 89.2 86.2-91.7
35-44 407 40 8.7 6.0-12.5 367 91.3 87.5-94.0
45-54 506 57 12.5 9.4-16.4 449 87.5 83.6-90.6
55-64 587 70 11.7 8.9-15.3 517 88.3 84.7-91.1
65-74 440 46 10.9 8.0-14.8 394 89.1 85.2-92.0
75+ 247 26 13.0 8.0-20.6 221 87.0 79.4-92.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 316 59 17.8 13.4-23.3 257 82.2 76.7-86.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 811 117 13.7 11.2-16.8 694 86.3 83.2-88.8
Some Post-H.S. 710 78 9.6 7.4-12.2 632 90.4 87.8-92.6
College Graduate 946 47 4.8 3.5- 6.6 899 95.2 93.4-96.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 209 52 24.4 18.1-32.0 157 75.6 68.0-81.9
$15,000- 24,999 449 71 14.5 11.0-18.8 378 85.5 81.2-89.0
$25,000- 34,999 251 32 12.8 8.5-18.9 219 87.2 81.1-91.5
$35,000- 49,999 338 26 7.7 4.9-11.7 312 92.3 88.3-95.1
$50,000- 74,999 405 19 4.2 2.4- 7.1 386 95.8 92.9-97.6
$75,000+ 702 30 4.7 3.1- 7.0 672 95.3 93.0-96.9
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 685 198 30.0 25.9-34.4 487 70.0 65.6-74.1
No 2,107 103 5.5 4.4- 6.8 2,004 94.5 93.2-95.6
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 758 95 12.8 10.1-15.9 663 87.2 84.1-89.9
Non-Veteran 2,034 208 10.5 8.9-12.2 1,826 89.5 87.8-91.1
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 832 71 9.3 7.1-12.0 761 90.7 88.0-92.9
Regional City or Suburban 629 76 13.0 10.1-16.4 553 87.0 83.6-89.9
Rural 1,343 157 11.1 9.2-13.3 1,186 88.9 86.7-90.8

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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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