2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Disability

Are you limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or emotional problems?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,568 1,583 21.6 20.5-22.8 4,985 78.4 77.2-79.5
Region 8 652 172 23.5 20.0-27.3 480 76.5 72.7-80.0
GENDER
Male 268 56 19.1 14.3-25.0 212 80.9 75.0-85.7
Female 384 116 27.6 22.8-33.0 268 72.4 67.0-77.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 429 118 24.5 20.2-29.4 311 75.5 70.6-79.8
Non-Hispanic Black 124 34 25.3 17.3-35.4 90 74.7 64.6-82.7
Other 89 18 16.5 9.7-26.6 71 83.5 73.4-90.3
AGE
18-44 211 24 11.5 7.5-17.2 187 88.5 82.8-92.5
44-64 238 76 31.2 24.8-38.4 162 68.8 61.6-75.2
65+ 194 70 39.0 31.4-47.3 124 61.0 52.7-68.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 277 83 26.8 21.3-33.1 194 73.2 66.9-78.7
Some College + 373 89 20.6 16.4-25.5 284 79.4 74.5-83.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 314 106 31.4 25.8-37.6 208 68.6 62.4-74.2
$50,000+ 206 27 10.8 7.1-16.0 179 89.2 84.0-92.9

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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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