2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 395 111 29.3 23.8-35.5 284 70.7 64.5-76.2
GENDER
Male 183 58 32.4 23.9-42.2 125 67.6 57.8-76.1
Female 212 53 26.5 19.9-34.3 159 73.5 65.7-80.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 254 75 29.2 23.2-36.1 179 70.8 63.9-76.8
Non-Hispanic Black 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 113 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 140 36 23.7 16.7-32.5 104 76.3 67.5-83.3
65+ 137 37 25.5 18.2-34.5 100 74.5 65.5-81.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 153 39 25.5 18.1-34.6 114 74.5 65.4-81.9
Some Post-H.S. 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 113 35 31.0 22.2-41.5 78 69.0 58.5-77.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 211 60 31.4 24.3-39.6 151 68.6 60.4-75.7
$50,000+ 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 69 15 17.5 9.9-29.1 54 82.5 70.9-90.1

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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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