2018 BRFSS Survey Results: 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 3,569 911 24.8 23.1-26.6 2,658 75.2 73.4-76.9
-Non-Hispanic White 2,379 679 28.0 25.8-30.4 1,700 72.0 69.6-74.2
GENDER
Male 1,093 401 35.0 31.5-38.6 692 65.0 61.4-68.5
Female 1,286 278 21.8 19.1-24.9 1,008 78.2 75.1-80.9
AGE
18-34 340 116 32.9 27.4-39.0 224 67.1 61.0-72.6
35-44 259 74 25.4 19.8-32.1 185 74.6 67.9-80.2
45-54 386 133 30.3 25.0-36.2 253 69.7 63.8-75.0
55-64 476 156 33.3 28.1-38.9 320 66.7 61.1-71.9
65-74 537 127 22.6 18.3-27.6 410 77.4 72.4-81.7
75+ 354 65 16.2 12.1-21.5 289 83.8 78.5-87.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 173 52 25.4 18.2-34.3 121 74.6 65.7-81.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 542 143 25.0 20.8-29.8 399 75.0 70.2-79.2
Some Post-H.S. 731 222 31.9 27.8-36.2 509 68.1 63.8-72.2
College Graduate 929 260 26.5 23.4-30.0 669 73.5 70.0-76.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 175 65 31.7 23.8-40.8 110 68.3 59.2-76.2
$15,000- 24,999 281 84 31.4 24.8-38.9 197 68.6 61.1-75.2
$25,000- 34,999 203 54 25.8 19.1-34.0 149 74.2 66.0-80.9
$35,000- 49,999 285 87 27.0 21.3-33.6 198 73.0 66.4-78.7
$50,000- 74,999 356 118 34.9 28.7-41.7 238 65.1 58.3-71.3
$75,000+ 661 178 26.4 22.5-30.7 483 73.6 69.3-77.5
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 804 297 36.1 32.0-40.5 507 63.9 59.5-68.0
No 1,566 376 24.0 21.4-26.8 1,190 76.0 73.2-78.6
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 347 132 39.2 32.6-46.3 215 60.8 53.7-67.4
Non-Veteran 2,032 547 26.5 24.2-29.0 1,485 73.5 71.0-75.8
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY1
Urban 477 118 24.1 19.8-29.0 359 75.9 71.0-80.2
Regional City or Suburban County 578 171 27.0 22.9-31.5 407 73.0 68.5-77.1
Rural 1,324 390 30.7 27.5-34.1 934 69.3 65.9-72.5
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 1,133 328 27.6 24.6-30.9 805 72.4 69.1-75.4
Unemployed 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 838 198 22.8 19.4-26.6 640 77.2 73.4-80.6
Unable to Work 211 98 44.7 35.7-54.0 113 55.3 46.0-64.3
Other not in Labor Force 144 37 26.9 18.9-36.9 107 73.1 63.1-81.1
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 122 38 24.8 16.6-35.3 84 75.2 64.7-83.4
101% to 150% 284 101 36.0 29.4-43.3 183 64.0 56.7-70.6
151% to 200% 171 45 24.8 17.7-33.6 126 75.2 66.4-82.3
More than 200% 1,330 383 28.3 25.3-31.4 947 71.7 68.6-74.7
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 454 145 32.4 26.9-38.4 309 67.6 61.6-73.1
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 1,025 306 29.6 26.2-33.1 719 70.4 66.9-73.8
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 900 228 24.9 21.5-28.6 672 75.1 71.4-78.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

1Based on U.S Census Bureau population estimates at the county level. Please see the BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

2Based on 2018 U.S Census Bureau poverty threshold incomes. Please see the BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

3NC Dept. of Commerce County Tier Classification, based on respondent’s county of residence.
Please see the BRFSS 2018 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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