2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 Demographics

Disability

Are you blind or do you have serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,564 352 5.0 4.4- 5.6 6,212 95.0 94.4-95.6
Region 3 599 43 6.7 4.8- 9.4 556 93.3 90.6-95.2
GENDER
Male 265 16 5.4 3.1- 9.3 249 94.6 90.7-96.9
Female 334 27 7.9 5.1-12.0 307 92.1 88.0-94.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 469 34 7.2 4.9-10.4 435 92.8 89.6-95.1
Non-Hispanic Black 72 *** *** *** 64 91.5 82.8-96.0
Other 56 *** *** *** 55 99.1 93.7-99.9
AGE
18-44 179 *** *** *** 174 98.3 95.8-99.3
44-64 229 18 9.3 5.5-15.2 211 90.7 84.8-94.5
65+ 186 20 12.5 7.6-19.7 166 87.5 80.3-92.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 243 27 9.8 6.4-14.9 216 90.2 85.1-93.6
Some College + 354 15 3.8 2.2- 6.4 339 96.2 93.6-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 303 30 9.4 6.3-13.9 273 90.6 86.1-93.7
$50,000+ 190 *** *** *** 184 96.9 92.9-98.7

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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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