2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

For these next questions, please think about injuries you have had during your entire lifetime, especially those that affected your head or neck.
It might help to remember times you went to the hospital or emergency room.
Think about injuries you may have received from a car or motorcycle wreck, bicycle crash, being hit by something, falling down, being hit by someone, playing sports or an injury during military service.
Thinking about any injuries you have had in your lifetime, were you ever knocked out or did you lose consciousness?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,769 907 24.4 22.6-26.2 2,862 75.6 73.8-77.4
-Non-Hispanic Black 755 141 19.3 15.7-23.6 614 80.7 76.4-84.3
GENDER
Male 292 72 23.1 17.5-29.9 220 76.9 70.1-82.5
Female 463 69 16.4 11.9-22.1 394 83.6 77.9-88.1
AGE
18-34 134 26 17.3 10.2-27.9 108 82.7 72.1-89.8
35-44 100 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-54 130 30 20.1 13.2-29.3 100 79.9 70.7-86.8
55-64 175 31 21.2 14.1-30.6 144 78.8 69.4-85.9
65-74 134 26 17.6 10.7-27.7 108 82.4 72.3-89.3
75+ 73 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 108 19 13.3 7.6-22.2 89 86.7 77.8-92.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 226 40 15.7 10.9-22.2 186 84.3 77.8-89.1
Some Post-H.S. 208 48 26.3 18.6-35.7 160 73.7 64.3-81.4
College Graduate 213 34 17.6 11.7-25.5 179 82.4 74.5-88.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 107 21 16.7 10.0-26.7 86 83.3 73.3-90.0
$15,000- 24,999 162 25 18.4 11.2-28.6 137 81.6 71.4-88.8
$25,000- 34,999 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$35,000- 49,999 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000- 74,999 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 89 *** *** *** *** *** ***
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 276 65 25.1 18.3-33.4 211 74.9 66.6-81.7
No 476 76 16.6 12.6-21.5 400 83.4 78.5-87.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 658 117 18.6 14.8-23.2 541 81.4 76.8-85.2
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY1
Urban 219 41 16.5 11.7-22.6 178 83.5 77.4-88.3
Regional City or Suburban County 145 22 14.0 8.2-22.9 123 86.0 77.1-91.8
Rural 391 78 25.1 18.7-32.9 313 74.9 67.1-81.3
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 372 62 19.7 14.4-26.3 310 80.3 73.7-85.6
Unemployed 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 191 32 18.1 12.1-26.2 159 81.9 73.8-87.9
Unable to Work 127 33 20.7 13.3-30.6 94 79.3 69.4-86.7
Other not in Labor Force 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 32 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 101 22 19.3 11.2-31.2 79 80.7 68.8-88.8
101% to 150% 151 21 18.5 11.1-29.3 130 81.5 70.7-88.9
151% to 200% 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
More than 200% 268 52 22.8 16.2-31.2 216 77.2 68.8-83.8
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 235 45 21.5 14.4-30.8 190 78.5 69.2-85.6
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 274 49 19.9 14.2-27.2 225 80.1 72.8-85.8
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 246 47 17.9 12.6-24.9 199 82.1 75.1-87.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

1Based on U.S Census Bureau population estimates at the county level. Please see the BRFSS 2017 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

2Based on 2017 U.S Census Bureau poverty threshold incomes. Please see the BRFSS 2017 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

3NC Dept. of Commerce County Tier Classification, based on respondent’s county of residence.
Please see the BRFSS 2017 Annual Results Technical Notes for 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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