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 White 2,485 659 26.7 24.5-29.0 1,826 73.3 71.0-75.5
GENDER
Male 1,100 372 33.1 29.6-36.7 728 66.9 63.3-70.4
Female 1,385 287 20.8 18.1-23.8 1,098 79.2 76.2-81.9
AGE
18-34 317 94 31.1 25.2-37.6 223 68.9 62.4-74.8
35-44 242 72 30.5 23.8-38.2 170 69.5 61.8-76.2
45-54 441 136 28.5 23.6-33.9 305 71.5 66.1-76.4
55-64 540 137 23.6 19.3-28.4 403 76.4 71.6-80.7
65-74 523 145 28.0 23.1-33.4 378 72.0 66.6-76.9
75+ 405 73 17.1 12.8-22.5 332 82.9 77.5-87.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 168 39 25.8 18.1-35.4 129 74.2 64.6-81.9
H.S. or G.E.D. 585 141 24.4 20.3-29.1 444 75.6 70.9-79.7
Some Post-H.S. 762 237 29.4 25.5-33.6 525 70.6 66.4-74.5
College Graduate 969 243 25.6 22.4-29.2 726 74.4 70.8-77.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 182 56 27.8 20.0-37.2 126 72.2 62.8-80.0
$15,000- 24,999 286 97 33.0 26.1-40.7 189 67.0 59.3-73.9
$25,000- 34,999 244 60 23.3 17.0-30.9 184 76.7 69.1-83.0
$35,000- 49,999 274 77 31.0 24.0-39.0 197 69.0 61.0-76.0
$50,000- 74,999 378 108 28.3 22.9-34.5 270 71.7 65.5-77.1
$75,000+ 710 164 25.1 21.2-29.4 546 74.9 70.6-78.8
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 845 282 33.0 28.8-37.4 563 67.0 62.6-71.2
No 1,628 375 23.9 21.3-26.7 1,253 76.1 73.3-78.7
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 368 136 36.9 30.8-43.4 232 63.1 56.6-69.2
Non-Veteran 2,117 523 25.1 22.8-27.7 1,594 74.9 72.3-77.2
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY1
Urban 503 129 25.3 21.2-30.0 374 74.7 70.0-78.8
Regional City or Suburban County 500 110 24.6 20.0-29.8 390 75.4 70.2-80.0
Rural 1,483 421 28.6 25.6-31.9 1,062 71.4 68.1-74.4
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 1,194 327 27.6 24.6-30.9 867 72.4 69.1-75.4
Unemployed 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 851 185 20.6 17.3-24.3 666 79.4 75.7-82.7
Unable to Work 227 98 40.9 32.4-50.0 129 59.1 50.0-67.6
Other not in Labor Force 144 29 21.2 14.2-30.4 115 78.8 69.6-85.8
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 44 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 123 *** *** *** 82 69.1 58.0-78.4
101% to 150% 311 96 33.7 26.7-41.4 215 66.3 58.6-73.3
151% to 200% 176 53 21.3 14.9-29.4 123 78.7 70.6-85.1
More than 200% 1,414 355 26.2 23.3-29.3 1,059 73.8 70.7-76.7
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 540 137 24.1 19.4-29.6 403 75.9 70.4-80.6
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 954 252 26.7 23.2-30.4 702 73.3 69.6-76.8
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 992 271 27.5 24.1-31.1 721 72.5 68.9-75.9

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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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