2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 886 139 15.0 12.4-17.9 747 85.0 82.1-87.6
GENDER
Male 381 48 12.2 8.9-16.4 333 87.8 83.6-91.1
Female 505 91 17.5 14.0-21.8 414 82.5 78.2-86.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 524 79 14.7 11.5-18.5 445 85.3 81.5-88.5
Non-Hispanic Black 211 45 18.7 13.3-25.6 166 81.3 74.4-86.7
Other 138 14 9.6 5.6-16.0 124 90.4 84.0-94.4
AGE
18-44 372 25 7.4 4.8-11.3 347 92.6 88.7-95.2
44-64 307 59 18.5 14.1-24.0 248 81.5 76.0-85.9
65+ 194 54 30.5 23.2-39.0 140 69.5 61.0-76.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 306 79 22.2 17.4-27.8 227 77.8 72.2-82.6
Some College + 576 59 10.5 7.9-13.9 517 89.5 86.1-92.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 356 91 24.8 19.9-30.5 265 75.2 69.5-80.1
$50,000+ 353 22 5.6 3.5- 8.9 331 94.4 91.1-96.5

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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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