2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 Demographics

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
Region 1 & 2 674 179 26.2 21.5-31.5 495 73.8 68.5-78.5
GENDER
Male 297 88 24.8 18.4-32.7 209 75.2 67.3-81.6
Female 377 91 27.6 21.2-34.9 286 72.4 65.1-78.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 600 165 26.8 21.8-32.4 435 73.2 67.6-78.2
Non-Hispanic Black 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 148 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 243 69 24.7 17.8-33.3 174 75.3 66.7-82.2
65+ 276 71 22.5 16.6-29.7 205 77.5 70.3-83.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 230 51 24.1 16.9-33.0 179 75.9 67.0-83.1
Some College + 443 128 28.1 22.4-34.7 315 71.9 65.3-77.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 317 93 29.9 22.7-38.2 224 70.1 61.8-77.3
$50,000+ 238 58 23.1 15.9-32.5 180 76.9 67.5-84.1

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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.

^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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