2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 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 4 410 99 22.5 18.2-27.4 311 77.5 72.6-81.8
GENDER
Male 195 54 23.8 17.9-30.9 141 76.2 69.1-82.1
Female 215 45 21.3 15.6-28.4 170 78.7 71.6-84.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 281 70 24.5 19.2-30.9 211 75.5 69.1-80.8
Non-Hispanic Black 72 16 17.4 10.3-28.0 56 82.6 72.0-89.7
Other 57 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 130 28 20.8 13.8-30.1 102 79.2 69.9-86.2
45-64 162 40 24.7 18.1-32.8 122 75.3 67.2-81.9
65+ 113 30 22.4 15.1-32.0 83 77.6 68.0-84.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 135 32 23.4 16.3-32.5 103 76.6 67.5-83.7
Some College + 275 67 21.9 17.0-27.7 208 78.1 72.3-83.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 170 40 23.0 16.5-31.2 130 77.0 68.8-83.5
$50,000+ 169 48 25.1 18.6-32.9 121 74.9 67.1-81.4

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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.

^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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