2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Regions 1 & 2 Demographics

Disability

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,408 461 5.9 5.3- 6.7 5,947 94.1 93.3-94.7
Regions 1 & 2 1,055 109 8.4 6.6-10.7 946 91.6 89.3-93.4
GENDER
Male 460 54 9.3 6.6-13.0 406 90.7 87.0-93.4
Female 595 55 7.6 5.4-10.6 540 92.4 89.4-94.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 911 95 8.3 6.5-10.7 816 91.7 89.3-93.5
Non-Hispanic Black 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 97 *** *** *** 88 91.7 83.2-96.1
AGE
18-44 273 *** *** *** 266 98.2 95.8-99.2
45-64 374 29 7.6 4.8-11.8 345 92.4 88.2-95.2
65+ 391 72 17.9 13.7-23.0 319 82.1 77.0-86.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 431 61 11.0 8.0-14.9 370 89.0 85.1-92.0
Some College + 625 48 6.2 4.3- 8.8 577 93.8 91.2-95.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 540 66 11.2 8.2-15.2 474 88.8 84.8-91.8
$50,000+ 325 19 3.7 2.1- 6.3 306 96.3 93.7-97.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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