2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Disability-Non-Hispanic White

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
-Non-Hispanic White 4,417 472 10.9 9.8-12.1 3,945 89.1 87.9-90.2
GENDER
Male 1,902 193 10.6 9.0-12.5 1,709 89.4 87.5-91.0
Female 2,515 279 11.2 9.7-12.8 2,236 88.8 87.2-90.3
AGE
18-34 677 78 11.4 9.0-14.3 599 88.6 85.7-91.0
35-44 510 52 9.3 6.7-12.6 458 90.7 87.4-93.3
45-54 744 89 12.1 9.6-15.2 655 87.9 84.8-90.4
55-64 924 107 12.1 9.7-15.1 817 87.9 84.9-90.3
65-74 907 80 9.0 7.0-11.5 827 91.0 88.5-93.0
75+ 614 66 11.4 8.4-15.3 548 88.6 84.7-91.6
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 310 75 23.1 18.0-29.1 235 76.9 70.9-82.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,114 152 12.4 10.2-15.0 962 87.6 85.0-89.8
Some Post-H.S. 1,284 147 10.2 8.6-12.2 1,137 89.8 87.8-91.4
College Graduate 1,691 95 5.5 4.4- 6.9 1,596 94.5 93.1-95.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 301 90 31.5 25.3-38.4 211 68.5 61.6-74.7
$15,000- 24,999 567 105 18.3 14.6-22.6 462 81.7 77.4-85.4
$25,000- 34,999 361 36 9.8 6.5-14.5 325 90.2 85.5-93.5
$35,000- 49,999 522 43 8.3 5.9-11.5 479 91.7 88.5-94.1
$50,000- 74,999 620 38 5.9 4.1- 8.5 582 94.1 91.5-95.9
$75,000+ 1,168 50 4.4 3.2- 6.1 1,118 95.6 93.9-96.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,240 329 28.5 25.4-31.7 911 71.5 68.3-74.6
No 3,159 138 4.7 3.9- 5.7 3,021 95.3 94.3-96.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 657 73 12.4 9.5-16.0 584 87.6 84.0-90.5
Non-Veteran 3,755 398 10.6 9.5-11.9 3,357 89.4 88.1-90.5
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,103 102 9.3 7.4-11.6 1,001 90.7 88.4-92.6
Regional City or Suburban 1,043 121 12.7 10.4-15.4 922 87.3 84.6-89.6
Rural 2,271 249 10.8 9.3-12.6 2,022 89.2 87.4-90.7

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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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