2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 580 136 24.7 20.5-29.5 444 75.3 70.5-79.5
GENDER
Male 243 83 34.7 27.6-42.4 160 65.3 57.6-72.4
Female 337 53 16.2 11.7-22.0 284 83.8 78.0-88.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 316 92 29.3 23.6-35.7 224 70.7 64.3-76.4
Non-Hispanic Black 119 18 16.2 9.3-26.7 101 83.8 73.3-90.7
Other 145 26 17.0 10.6-26.2 119 83.0 73.8-89.4
AGE
18-44 154 40 27.9 20.3-37.0 114 72.1 63.0-79.7
45-64 221 57 24.8 18.6-32.4 164 75.2 67.6-81.4
65+ 202 38 19.7 13.3-28.0 164 80.3 72.0-86.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 240 56 26.5 19.6-34.9 184 73.5 65.1-80.4
Some College + 339 80 23.4 18.5-29.1 259 76.6 70.9-81.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 291 72 27.1 20.8-34.5 219 72.9 65.5-79.2
$50,000+ 175 40 23.9 17.3-32.1 135 76.1 67.9-82.7

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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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