2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Disability

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
Region 5 805 86 10.5 8.3-13.1 719 89.5 86.9-91.7
GENDER
Male 345 41 11.4 8.1-15.8 304 88.6 84.2-91.9
Female 460 45 9.6 7.0-13.1 415 90.4 86.9-93.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 487 46 8.3 6.1-11.2 441 91.7 88.8-93.9
Non-Hispanic Black 184 29 17.8 12.0-25.4 155 82.2 74.6-88.0
Other 118 *** *** *** 109 93.3 86.8-96.7
AGE
18-44 304 33 10.7 7.4-15.1 271 89.3 84.9-92.6
44-64 281 33 12.1 8.3-17.2 248 87.9 82.8-91.7
65+ 206 20 8.3 5.1-13.0 186 91.7 87.0-94.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 282 40 13.5 9.7-18.6 242 86.5 81.4-90.3
Some College + 517 45 8.3 6.0-11.4 472 91.7 88.6-94.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 343 46 13.4 9.8-18.0 297 86.6 82.0-90.2
$50,000+ 298 15 4.3 2.4- 7.5 283 95.7 92.5-97.6

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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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