2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 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 9 & 10 622 153 26.8 22.6-31.4 469 73.2 68.6-77.4
GENDER
Male 261 88 36.3 29.6-43.6 173 63.7 56.4-70.4
Female 361 65 17.5 13.0-23.2 296 82.5 76.8-87.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 393 105 28.8 23.4-34.9 288 71.2 65.1-76.6
Non-Hispanic Black 184 40 25.3 18.1-34.2 144 74.7 65.8-81.9
Other 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 157 45 30.7 22.8-39.9 112 69.3 60.1-77.2
45-64 232 64 28.5 22.1-35.9 168 71.5 64.1-77.9
65+ 225 43 18.5 13.1-25.4 182 81.5 74.6-86.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 260 55 22.3 16.5-29.4 205 77.7 70.6-83.5
Some College + 361 98 31.0 25.2-37.5 263 69.0 62.5-74.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 288 68 24.9 19.1-31.9 220 75.1 68.1-80.9
$50,000+ 209 52 27.9 20.9-36.2 157 72.1 63.8-79.1

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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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