2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 407 96 22.5 18.3-27.4 311 77.5 72.6-81.7
GENDER
Male 167 54 30.0 23.0-38.1 113 70.0 61.9-77.0
Female 240 42 16.4 11.8-22.3 198 83.6 77.7-88.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 247 63 23.6 18.3-29.9 184 76.4 70.1-81.7
Non-Hispanic Black 113 19 15.4 9.5-23.8 94 84.6 76.2-90.5
Other 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 134 28 18.7 12.7-26.6 106 81.3 73.4-87.3
45-64 147 44 29.8 22.2-38.7 103 70.2 61.3-77.8
65+ 119 19 15.2 9.0-24.5 100 84.8 75.5-91.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 143 25 17.0 11.3-24.9 118 83.0 75.1-88.7
Some Post-H.S. 117 37 29.9 21.6-39.8 80 70.1 60.2-78.4
College Graduate 146 33 21.4 15.0-29.5 113 78.6 70.5-85.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 177 35 19.5 13.7-26.9 142 80.5 73.1-86.3
$50,000+ 158 43 24.2 17.8-32.1 115 75.8 67.9-82.2
Don't know/Not Sure 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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