2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 Demographics

Falls (Age 45+)

In the past 12 months, how many times have you fallen?

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  Total
Respond.^		 1 fall 2 or more falls No falls
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,883 353 11.7 10.2-13.3 413 12.8 11.4-14.4 2,117 75.5 73.4-77.5
Region 9 & 10 472 55 9.0 6.7-12.0 68 12.9 9.7-17.1 349 78.1 73.4-82.1
GENDER
Male 198 22 8.3 5.2-13.2 21 10.5 6.0-17.9 155 81.2 73.6-87.0
Female 274 33 9.6 6.5-13.8 47 14.9 10.7-20.3 194 75.6 69.3-80.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 305 39 10.1 7.1-14.2 45 13.8 9.6-19.5 221 76.1 69.8-81.3
Non-Hispanic Black 144 13 6.7 3.7-11.9 17 10.4 6.1-17.1 114 82.9 75.4-88.5
Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 247 28 9.4 6.3-13.9 36 11.6 7.9-16.8 183 78.9 72.8-84.0
65+ 224 26 8.3 5.4-12.7 32 14.7 9.4-22.1 166 77.0 69.4-83.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 190 22 7.5 4.7-11.8 28 11.4 7.4-17.2 140 81.1 74.5-86.3
Some Post-H.S. 132 *** *** *** 26 18.9 11.9-28.7 97 75.2 65.2-83.1
College Graduate 150 24 16.6 10.8-24.6 14 7.2 3.9-12.9 112 76.2 67.7-83.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 237 25 8.4 5.4-12.9 48 17.3 11.9-24.4 164 74.3 66.9-80.5
$50,000+ 152 19 10.6 6.4-16.9 12 9.2 5.1-16.3 121 80.2 72.1-86.3
Don't know/Not Sure 83 11 8.0 4.0-15.3 *** *** *** 64 83.4 73.3-90.2

Back to Falls (Age 45+).

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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