2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 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 6 503 22 3.3 2.1- 5.2 481 96.7 94.8-97.9
GENDER
Male 220 11 3.3 1.7- 6.4 209 96.7 93.6-98.3
Female 283 11 3.3 1.7- 6.3 272 96.7 93.7-98.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 281 *** *** *** 274 98.2 96.0-99.2
Non-Hispanic Black 144 13 6.9 3.7-12.5 131 93.1 87.5-96.3
Other 71 *** *** *** 69 97.5 89.2-99.4
AGE
18-44 183 *** *** *** 179 98.0 94.6-99.3
44-64 192 16 6.5 3.9-10.9 176 93.5 89.1-96.1
65+ 121 *** *** *** 119 98.2 92.8-99.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 206 14 5.2 3.0- 9.2 192 94.8 90.8-97.0
Some College + 296 *** *** *** 288 98.2 96.1-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 231 11 3.7 2.0- 6.7 220 96.3 93.3-98.0
$50,000+ 164 *** *** *** 158 97.0 93.1-98.8

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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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