2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont 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
-Piedmont NC 1,666 408 25.4 23.0-28.0 1,258 74.6 72.0-77.0
GENDER
Male 758 224 31.7 27.8-35.8 534 68.3 64.2-72.2
Female 908 184 19.9 17.0-23.1 724 80.1 76.9-83.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 1,019 286 29.5 26.3-33.0 733 70.5 67.0-73.7
Non-Hispanic Black 375 62 17.2 13.2-22.1 313 82.8 77.9-86.8
Other 272 60 21.7 16.3-28.2 212 78.3 71.8-83.7
AGE
18-34 310 73 23.9 18.8-29.9 237 76.1 70.1-81.2
35-44 242 49 23.1 17.4-30.0 193 76.9 70.0-82.6
45-54 289 66 25.4 19.7-32.2 223 74.6 67.8-80.3
55-64 342 101 31.4 25.8-37.5 241 68.6 62.5-74.2
65-74 258 71 26.4 20.9-32.7 187 73.6 67.3-79.1
75+ 202 42 20.5 14.4-28.4 160 79.5 71.6-85.6
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 171 35 26.9 19.1-36.5 136 73.1 63.5-80.9
H.S. or G.E.D. 351 94 30.8 25.4-36.8 257 69.2 63.2-74.6
Some Post-H.S. 479 116 23.5 19.5-28.0 363 76.5 72.0-80.5
College Graduate 662 163 22.7 19.4-26.3 499 77.3 73.7-80.6
FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY
Yes 506 180 37.9 32.9-43.1 326 62.1 56.9-67.1
No 1,148 228 20.7 18.0-23.7 920 79.3 76.3-82.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 197 69 35.9 28.3-44.2 128 64.1 55.8-71.7
Non-Veteran 1,467 339 24.2 21.7-27.0 1,128 75.8 73.0-78.3
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Employed or Self-Employed 928 205 22.9 19.9-26.2 723 77.1 73.8-80.1
Unemployed 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Retired 437 108 25.0 20.5-30.1 329 75.0 69.9-79.5
Unable to Work 128 55 44.5 35.0-54.5 73 55.5 45.5-65.0
Other not in Labor Force 105 23 24.1 15.7-35.2 82 75.9 64.8-84.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 105 29 24.5 16.4-35.0 76 75.5 65.0-83.6
$15,000- 24,999 195 62 35.3 27.5-43.9 133 64.7 56.1-72.5
$25,000- 34,999 147 38 28.6 20.7-38.0 109 71.4 62.0-79.3
$35,000- 49,999 176 45 28.3 21.1-36.9 131 71.7 63.1-78.9
$50,000- 74,999 181 31 17.0 11.1-25.0 150 83.0 75.0-88.9
$75,000+ 510 124 23.9 19.9-28.5 386 76.1 71.5-80.1
POVERTY LEVEL2
Less than 50% 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
50% to 100% 152 44 30.4 22.6-39.5 108 69.6 60.5-77.4
101% to 150% 163 54 36.2 27.5-45.8 109 63.8 54.2-72.5
151% to 200% 105 27 27.1 18.5-37.7 78 72.9 62.3-81.5
More than 200% 844 192 22.9 19.7-26.5 652 77.1 73.5-80.3
HOUSING
Own 1,075 263 25.5 22.5-28.8 812 74.5 71.2-77.5
Rent 465 113 24.7 20.3-29.7 352 75.3 70.3-79.7
Other arrangement 116 32 29.0 20.6-39.1 84 71.0 60.9-79.4
RURAL-URBAN RESIDENT1
Urban 903 212 25.1 21.8-28.8 691 74.9 71.2-78.2
Regional City or Suburban County 409 100 23.0 18.5-28.1 309 77.0 71.9-81.5
Rural 354 96 29.3 24.0-35.1 258 70.7 64.9-76.0
NC DEPT OF COMMERCE COUNTY TIER3
Most Distressed Counties (Tier 1) 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Less Distressed Counties (Tier 2) 647 160 24.8 21.0-29.0 487 75.2 71.0-79.0
Least Distressed Counties (Tier 3) 916 223 25.5 22.2-29.0 693 74.5 71.0-77.8

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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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