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

Disability

Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating,
remembering, or making decisions?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,383 742 11.3 10.4-12.3 5,641 88.7 87.7-89.6
Regions 1 & 2 1,051 130 11.2 8.9-14.0 921 88.8 86.0-91.1
GENDER
Male 458 56 10.5 7.3-14.8 402 89.5 85.2-92.7
Female 593 74 11.9 8.8-15.9 519 88.1 84.1-91.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 907 115 11.4 9.0-14.4 792 88.6 85.6-91.0
Non-Hispanic Black 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 97 *** *** *** 88 93.2 85.7-96.9
AGE
18-44 272 33 10.5 6.8-16.0 239 89.5 84.0-93.2
45-64 373 58 14.6 10.7-19.6 315 85.4 80.4-89.3
65+ 389 36 7.0 4.6-10.6 353 93.0 89.4-95.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 428 68 14.0 10.1-19.0 360 86.0 81.0-89.9
Some College + 624 62 8.8 6.4-12.0 562 91.2 88.0-93.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 537 90 16.4 12.4-21.2 447 83.6 78.8-87.6
$50,000+ 324 17 3.7 2.1- 6.6 307 96.3 93.4-97.9

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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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