2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 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 4 1,199 56 4.6 3.4- 6.2 1,143 95.4 93.8-96.6
GENDER
Male 508 21 4.1 2.6- 6.5 487 95.9 93.5-97.4
Female 691 35 5.2 3.5- 7.5 656 94.8 92.5-96.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 791 26 3.6 2.3- 5.4 765 96.4 94.6-97.7
Non-Hispanic Black 235 20 8.8 5.2-14.4 215 91.2 85.6-94.8
Other 151 *** *** *** 141 95.7 91.6-97.8
AGE
18-44 407 *** *** *** 400 98.5 96.9-99.3
44-64 476 31 7.8 5.2-11.6 445 92.2 88.4-94.8
65+ 300 17 7.0 4.1-11.7 283 93.0 88.3-95.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 428 40 8.9 6.3-12.6 388 91.1 87.4-93.7
Some College + 763 16 1.8 1.1- 3.0 747 98.2 97.0-98.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 517 39 7.8 5.5-11.1 478 92.2 88.9-94.5
$50,000+ 429 *** *** *** 427 99.7 98.7-99.9

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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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