2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont 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
-Piedmont NC 1,404 325 23.4 20.9-26.1 1,079 76.6 73.9-79.1
GENDER
Male 617 173 28.1 24.2-32.4 444 71.9 67.6-75.8
Female 787 152 19.4 16.3-22.9 635 80.6 77.1-83.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 927 230 26.2 22.9-29.6 697 73.8 70.4-77.1
Non-Hispanic Black 291 52 15.4 11.4-20.5 239 84.6 79.5-88.6
Other 186 43 22.7 16.1-31.1 143 77.3 68.9-83.9
AGE
18-34 257 61 23.4 17.9-30.1 196 76.6 69.9-82.1
35-44 191 45 24.4 17.9-32.4 146 75.6 67.6-82.1
45-54 267 73 25.5 20.1-31.8 194 74.5 68.2-79.9
55-64 292 61 23.2 17.8-29.5 231 76.8 70.5-82.2
65-74 225 58 26.5 20.3-33.9 167 73.5 66.1-79.7
75+ 159 25 15.4 10.0-22.8 134 84.6 77.2-90.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 126 25 22.6 15.1-32.5 101 77.4 67.5-84.9
H.S. or G.E.D. 314 65 20.1 15.5-25.6 249 79.9 74.4-84.5
Some Post-H.S. 391 109 26.6 22.0-31.8 282 73.4 68.2-78.0
College Graduate 572 126 22.7 19.1-26.9 446 77.3 73.1-80.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 113 27 23.8 15.7-34.3 86 76.2 65.7-84.3
$15,000- 24,999 178 39 23.1 16.4-31.5 139 76.9 68.5-83.6
$25,000- 34,999 130 29 17.8 11.5-26.6 101 82.2 73.4-88.5
$35,000- 49,999 158 40 25.9 18.4-35.2 118 74.1 64.8-81.6
$50,000- 74,999 195 55 28.9 22.1-36.8 140 71.1 63.2-77.9
$75,000+ 398 94 24.4 19.8-29.6 304 75.6 70.4-80.2
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 387 116 30.4 25.1-36.3 271 69.6 63.7-74.9
No 1,012 207 20.9 18.1-24.0 805 79.1 76.0-81.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 153 50 35.5 27.1-44.8 103 64.5 55.2-72.9
Non-Veteran 1,251 275 22.1 19.5-25.0 976 77.9 75.0-80.5
RURAL-URBAN RESIDENT1
Urban 766 183 22.6 19.4-26.2 583 77.4 73.8-80.6
Regional City or Suburban County 331 74 23.5 18.5-29.4 257 76.5 70.6-81.5
Rural 307 68 25.4 19.9-31.8 239 74.6 68.2-80.1
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 766 178 23.4 20.1-27.1 588 76.6 72.9-79.9
Unemployed 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 358 76 20.6 16.2-25.8 282 79.4 74.2-83.8
Unable to Work 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other not in Labor Force 113 24 20.0 13.0-29.5 89 80.0 70.5-87.0
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 96 18 16.3 9.7-26.1 78 83.7 73.9-90.3
101% to 150% 171 40 27.8 19.9-37.4 131 72.2 62.6-80.1
151% to 200% 92 18 13.4 7.8-22.1 74 86.6 77.9-92.2
More than 200% 769 194 25.6 22.2-29.4 575 74.4 70.6-77.8
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 462 104 22.4 18.3-27.2 358 77.6 72.8-81.7
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 857 203 23.8 20.6-27.4 654 76.2 72.6-79.4

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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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