2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 3,143 800 26.1 24.2-27.9 2,343 73.9 72.1-75.8
Region 5 455 110 23.8 19.6-28.7 345 76.2 71.3-80.4
GENDER
Male 208 52 25.9 19.6-33.4 156 74.1 66.6-80.4
Female 247 58 21.9 16.5-28.4 189 78.1 71.6-83.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 265 71 26.4 20.8-32.8 194 73.6 67.2-79.2
Non-Hispanic Black 117 21 18.0 11.2-27.6 96 82.0 72.4-88.8
Other 73 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 158 35 23.6 16.8-32.0 123 76.4 68.0-83.2
45-64 154 36 22.0 15.4-30.5 118 78.0 69.5-84.6
65+ 136 37 25.9 18.4-35.1 99 74.1 64.9-81.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 139 31 22.9 15.8-32.0 108 77.1 68.0-84.2
Some Post-H.S. 114 29 25.3 17.5-35.1 85 74.7 64.9-82.5
College Graduate 200 50 24.0 18.2-30.9 150 76.0 69.1-81.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 157 47 29.5 21.9-38.6 110 70.5 61.4-78.1
$50,000+ 194 39 19.6 14.1-26.6 155 80.4 73.4-85.9
Don't know/Not Sure 104 24 23.5 15.3-34.3 80 76.5 65.7-84.7

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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.

^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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