2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 Demographics

Disability

Do you have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,548 1,258 16.5 15.5-17.6 5,290 83.5 82.4-84.5
Region 3 597 131 19.8 16.4-23.6 466 80.2 76.4-83.6
GENDER
Male 264 44 13.8 9.9-18.8 220 86.2 81.2-90.1
Female 333 87 25.1 20.0-31.0 246 74.9 69.0-80.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 467 97 19.5 15.7-24.0 370 80.5 76.0-84.3
Non-Hispanic Black 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 56 *** *** *** 47 88.8 77.6-94.8
AGE
18-44 178 *** *** *** 170 97.2 94.3-98.6
44-64 230 65 30.7 24.1-38.2 165 69.3 61.8-75.9
65+ 184 57 34.9 27.3-43.5 127 65.1 56.5-72.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 242 74 27.5 21.6-34.3 168 72.5 65.7-78.4
Some College + 353 57 13.2 9.9-17.4 296 86.8 82.6-90.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 300 90 27.2 21.8-33.4 210 72.8 66.6-78.2
$50,000+ 191 16 6.2 3.6-10.5 175 93.8 89.5-96.4

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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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