2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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
Region 5 684 70 10.5 7.9-13.7 614 89.5 86.3-92.1
GENDER
Male 332 27 9.1 5.9-13.7 305 90.9 86.3-94.1
Female 352 43 11.7 8.1-16.5 309 88.3 83.5-91.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 430 40 8.8 6.1-12.6 390 91.2 87.4-93.9
Non-Hispanic Black 158 18 10.8 6.6-17.3 140 89.2 82.7-93.4
Other 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 256 25 10.4 6.5-16.0 231 89.6 84.0-93.5
45-64 226 28 11.9 7.8-17.9 198 88.1 82.1-92.2
65+ 189 17 9.2 5.2-15.6 172 90.8 84.4-94.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 215 32 16.7 11.3-23.9 183 83.3 76.1-88.7
Some College + 469 38 6.9 4.8- 9.8 431 93.1 90.2-95.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 297 46 16.2 11.4-22.4 251 83.8 77.6-88.6
$50,000+ 270 11 4.1 2.2- 7.7 259 95.9 92.3-97.8

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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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