2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 808 126 14.3 11.7-17.3 682 85.7 82.7-88.3
GENDER
Male 347 37 11.1 7.5-16.0 310 88.9 84.0-92.5
Female 461 89 17.1 13.7-21.2 372 82.9 78.8-86.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 487 80 15.4 12.0-19.6 407 84.6 80.4-88.0
Non-Hispanic Black 185 34 14.8 10.1-21.2 151 85.2 78.8-89.9
Other 120 *** *** *** 110 91.7 84.1-95.9
AGE
18-44 307 14 4.4 2.5- 7.8 293 95.6 92.2-97.5
44-64 281 48 18.2 13.6-24.0 233 81.8 76.0-86.4
65+ 206 62 31.8 24.2-40.4 144 68.2 59.6-75.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 284 69 21.8 16.8-27.9 215 78.2 72.1-83.2
Some College + 518 57 9.2 6.9-12.2 461 90.8 87.8-93.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 344 69 19.6 15.1-25.1 275 80.4 74.9-84.9
$50,000+ 298 23 6.2 3.9- 9.7 275 93.8 90.3-96.1

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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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