2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 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 9 & 10 577 132 25.5 21.0-30.6 445 74.5 69.4-79.0
GENDER
Male 248 76 31.2 24.3-39.1 172 68.8 60.9-75.7
Female 329 56 20.5 15.0-27.5 273 79.5 72.5-85.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 361 107 34.1 27.8-41.0 254 65.9 59.0-72.2
Non-Hispanic Black 168 22 10.5 6.5-16.7 146 89.5 83.3-93.5
Other 48 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 156 38 28.0 20.2-37.4 118 72.0 62.6-79.8
45-64 210 51 25.9 18.7-34.9 159 74.1 65.1-81.3
65+ 202 40 20.3 13.9-28.7 162 79.7 71.3-86.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 228 49 21.3 15.3-28.9 179 78.7 71.1-84.7
Some Post-H.S. 174 50 32.3 23.9-42.0 124 67.7 58.0-76.1
College Graduate 174 32 19.9 13.3-28.7 142 80.1 71.3-86.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 286 69 24.3 18.3-31.7 217 75.7 68.3-81.7
$50,000+ 182 47 30.3 22.5-39.5 135 69.7 60.5-77.5
Don't know/Not Sure 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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