2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 887 36 4.0 2.7- 5.8 851 96.0 94.2-97.3
GENDER
Male 382 13 3.9 2.1- 7.1 369 96.1 92.9-97.9
Female 505 23 4.1 2.5- 6.5 482 95.9 93.5-97.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 525 14 2.8 1.5- 5.2 511 97.2 94.8-98.5
Non-Hispanic Black 212 18 8.1 4.7-13.5 194 91.9 86.5-95.3
Other 137 *** *** *** 133 98.1 94.8-99.3
AGE
18-44 371 *** *** *** 367 98.7 96.2-99.6
44-64 308 23 7.0 4.3-11.3 285 93.0 88.7-95.7
65+ 195 *** *** *** 186 94.1 88.5-97.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 306 24 6.9 4.3-11.0 282 93.1 89.0-95.7
Some College + 577 12 2.3 1.2- 4.3 565 97.7 95.7-98.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 358 25 7.3 4.6-11.5 333 92.7 88.5-95.4
$50,000+ 353 *** *** *** 351 99.5 98.0-99.9

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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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