2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 434 93 22.8 18.4-27.9 341 77.2 72.1-81.6
GENDER
Male 205 53 28.0 21.2-35.9 152 72.0 64.1-78.8
Female 229 40 18.3 13.0-25.1 189 81.7 74.9-87.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 261 64 24.9 19.3-31.6 197 75.1 68.4-80.7
Non-Hispanic Black 106 22 22.9 14.8-33.8 84 77.1 66.2-85.2
Other 67 *** *** *** 60 89.3 77.5-95.3
AGE
18-44 146 31 24.0 16.6-33.3 115 76.0 66.7-83.4
45-64 171 42 23.2 16.9-31.0 129 76.8 69.0-83.1
65+ 110 18 19.1 11.5-29.9 92 80.9 70.1-88.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 143 25 17.9 11.7-26.5 118 82.1 73.5-88.3
Some Post-H.S. 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 196 41 20.8 15.1-27.9 155 79.2 72.1-84.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 162 35 23.9 16.8-33.0 127 76.1 67.0-83.2
$50,000+ 188 40 21.4 15.5-28.6 148 78.6 71.4-84.5
Don't know/Not Sure 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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