2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 577 79 14.0 11.0-17.8 498 86.0 82.2-89.0
GENDER
Male 272 29 10.0 6.6-14.7 243 90.0 85.3-93.4
Female 305 50 18.0 13.2-24.0 255 82.0 76.0-86.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 360 50 14.9 11.0-19.9 310 85.1 80.1-89.0
Non-Hispanic Black 117 14 12.1 6.1-22.4 103 87.9 77.6-93.9
Other 95 15 13.1 7.6-21.9 80 86.9 78.1-92.4
AGE
18-44 185 23 12.4 8.0-18.9 162 87.6 81.1-92.0
45-64 210 39 18.7 13.3-25.6 171 81.3 74.4-86.7
65+ 179 17 11.0 6.5-18.2 162 89.0 81.8-93.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 263 47 17.9 13.0-24.1 216 82.1 75.9-87.0
Some College + 313 32 10.3 7.0-15.0 281 89.7 85.0-93.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 300 47 15.8 11.4-21.5 253 84.2 78.5-88.6
$50,000+ 165 14 8.7 4.8-15.2 151 91.3 84.8-95.2

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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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