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
-FEMALES 2,122 410 19.9 17.7-22.4 1,712 80.1 77.6-82.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 1,385 287 20.8 18.1-23.8 1,098 79.2 76.2-81.9
Non-Hispanic Black 463 69 16.4 11.9-22.1 394 83.6 77.9-88.1
Other 78 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-34 311 63 20.5 15.3-26.9 248 79.5 73.1-84.7
35-44 245 52 25.9 19.2-34.0 193 74.1 66.0-80.8
45-54 351 92 23.2 18.2-29.2 259 76.8 70.8-81.8
55-64 448 85 20.0 15.4-25.5 363 80.0 74.5-84.6
65-74 413 73 17.4 12.8-23.2 340 82.6 76.8-87.2
75+ 331 44 10.5 7.1-15.3 287 89.5 84.7-92.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 226 34 16.8 10.8-25.2 192 83.2 74.8-89.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 493 94 20.8 16.5-26.0 399 79.2 74.0-83.5
Some Post-H.S. 657 153 21.9 18.0-26.4 504 78.1 73.6-82.0
College Graduate 742 129 18.0 14.7-21.8 613 82.0 78.2-85.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 225 60 26.5 19.1-35.6 165 73.5 64.4-80.9
$15,000- 24,999 335 73 21.4 15.9-28.2 262 78.6 71.8-84.1
$25,000- 34,999 231 44 17.7 12.1-25.1 187 82.3 74.9-87.9
$35,000- 49,999 228 48 26.2 18.2-36.2 180 73.8 63.8-81.8
$50,000- 74,999 245 48 20.3 14.6-27.6 197 79.7 72.4-85.4
$75,000+ 413 59 14.7 10.8-19.6 354 85.3 80.4-89.2
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 755 202 27.7 23.2-32.7 553 72.3 67.3-76.8
No 1,355 206 16.4 14.0-19.1 1,149 83.6 80.9-86.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 2,071 396 19.7 17.4-22.2 1,675 80.3 77.8-82.6
RURAL-URBAN RESIDENT1
Urban 483 89 18.0 14.2-22.5 394 82.0 77.5-85.8
Regional City or Suburban County 411 70 18.6 14.1-24.3 341 81.4 75.7-85.9
Rural 1,228 251 22.0 18.8-25.7 977 78.0 74.3-81.2
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 902 165 19.9 16.6-23.7 737 80.1 76.3-83.4
Unemployed 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 692 107 14.4 11.3-18.2 585 85.6 81.8-88.7
Unable to Work 258 84 30.6 23.0-39.5 174 69.4 60.5-77.0
Other not in Labor Force 190 36 19.8 13.6-27.8 154 80.2 72.2-86.4
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 190 46 21.3 14.4-30.3 144 78.7 69.7-85.6
101% to 150% 330 71 25.0 18.6-32.6 259 75.0 67.4-81.4
151% to 200% 146 31 12.6 8.0-19.3 115 87.4 80.7-92.0
More than 200% 935 163 18.7 15.5-22.3 772 81.3 77.7-84.5
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER4
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 564 97 18.5 13.8-24.2 467 81.5 75.8-86.2
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 804 154 19.2 15.9-23.0 650 80.8 77.0-84.1
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 754 159 21.0 17.4-25.1 595 79.0 74.9-82.6

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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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