2018 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 3,569 911 24.8 23.1-26.6 2,658 75.2 73.4-76.9
Region 4 471 114 24.1 19.9-28.9 357 75.9 71.1-80.1
GENDER
Male 217 69 31.1 24.3-38.7 148 68.9 61.3-75.7
Female 254 45 18.1 13.3-24.2 209 81.9 75.8-86.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 308 80 27.3 21.6-33.7 228 72.7 66.3-78.4
Non-Hispanic Black 87 16 16.3 9.7-25.9 71 83.7 74.1-90.3
Other 76 18 22.8 14.3-34.4 58 77.2 65.6-85.7
AGE
18-44 162 43 22.7 16.5-30.2 119 77.3 69.8-83.5
45-64 159 43 29.2 21.7-38.0 116 70.8 62.0-78.3
65+ 144 26 18.0 11.4-27.3 118 82.0 72.7-88.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 166 37 22.8 16.3-31.0 129 77.2 69.0-83.7
Some Post-H.S. 152 38 25.8 18.7-34.5 114 74.2 65.5-81.3
College Graduate 151 38 23.2 16.7-31.2 113 76.8 68.8-83.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 191 42 20.8 15.1-27.8 149 79.2 72.2-84.9
$50,000+ 179 52 29.1 22.0-37.4 127 70.9 62.6-78.0
Don't know/Not Sure 101 20 20.9 12.8-32.0 81 79.1 68.0-87.2

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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.

^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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