2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina

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 3,143 800 26.1 24.2-27.9 2,343 73.9 72.1-75.8
-Eastern NC 1,049 270 25.3 22.2-28.6 779 74.7 71.4-77.8
GENDER
Male 447 134 29.2 24.5-34.4 313 70.8 65.6-75.5
Female 602 136 21.9 18.1-26.2 466 78.1 73.8-81.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 612 178 29.6 25.6-34.0 434 70.4 66.0-74.4
Non-Hispanic Black 270 45 16.1 11.3-22.5 225 83.9 77.5-88.7
Other 167 47 25.3 17.9-34.4 120 74.7 65.6-82.1
AGE
18-34 177 39 21.2 15.2-28.9 138 78.8 71.1-84.8
35-44 141 49 33.7 25.6-42.8 92 66.3 57.2-74.4
45-54 166 55 31.7 24.3-40.0 111 68.3 60.0-75.7
55-64 207 54 28.5 21.4-36.9 153 71.5 63.1-78.6
65-74 211 41 20.6 14.8-28.0 170 79.4 72.0-85.2
75+ 136 31 16.6 11.1-24.1 105 83.4 75.9-88.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 103 24 24.8 16.0-36.3 *** *** ***
H.S. or G.E.D. 302 79 25.4 19.8-31.8 223 74.6 68.2-80.2
Some Post-H.S. 350 101 27.3 22.4-32.8 249 72.7 67.2-77.6
College Graduate 291 66 22.7 17.7-28.7 225 77.3 71.3-82.3
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 413 135 33.3 27.9-39.2 278 66.7 60.8-72.1
No 627 132 20.3 16.9-24.2 495 79.7 75.8-83.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 155 61 40.5 31.7-49.9 94 59.5 50.1-68.3
Non-Veteran 894 209 22.9 19.7-26.4 685 77.1 73.6-80.3
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 492 137 27.2 22.8-32.0 355 72.8 68.0-77.2
Unemployed 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 310 55 16.2 11.9-21.6 255 83.8 78.4-88.1
Unable to Work 138 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other not in Labor Force 65 13 16.7 9.3-28.2 52 83.3 71.8-90.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 88 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$15,000- 24,999 150 49 31.1 23.1-40.5 101 68.9 59.5-76.9
$25,000- 34,999 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$35,000- 49,999 135 40 29.0 21.2-38.3 95 71.0 61.7-78.8
$50,000- 74,999 124 30 22.8 15.5-32.1 94 77.2 67.9-84.5
$75,000+ 229 64 28.6 22.1-36.1 165 71.4 63.9-77.9
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 108 34 30.6 21.3-41.9 74 69.4 58.1-78.7
101% to 150% 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***
151% to 200% 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
More than 200% 459 126 27.2 22.7-32.3 333 72.8 67.7-77.3
HOUSING
Own 690 171 25.2 21.5-29.3 519 74.8 70.7-78.5
Rent 278 82 29.6 23.6-36.4 196 70.4 63.6-76.4
Other arrangement 74 17 19.7 11.6-31.4 57 80.3 68.6-88.4
RURAL-URBAN RESIDENT1
Urban 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Regional City or Suburban County 321 85 24.5 19.4-30.4 236 75.5 69.6-80.6
Rural 648 162 25.4 21.5-29.7 486 74.6 70.3-78.5
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 600 143 23.6 19.6-28.1 457 76.4 71.9-80.4
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 239 66 27.5 21.5-34.4 173 72.5 65.6-78.5
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 210 61 26.8 20.4-34.3 149 73.2 65.7-79.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

1Based on U.S Census Bureau population estimates at the county level. Please see the BRFSS 2019 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

2Based on 2019 U.S Census Bureau poverty threshold incomes. Please see the BRFSS 2019 Annual Results Technical Notes for details.

3NC Dept. of Commerce County Tier Classification, based on respondent’s county of residence.
Please see the BRFSS 2019 Annual Results Technical Notes for 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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