2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 504 117 23.4 19.1-28.2 387 76.6 71.8-80.9
GENDER
Male 219 66 31.0 23.8-39.2 153 69.0 60.8-76.2
Female 285 51 16.9 12.5-22.3 234 83.1 77.7-87.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 284 83 30.7 24.6-37.6 201 69.3 62.4-75.4
Non-Hispanic Black 137 16 11.4 6.3-19.7 121 88.6 80.3-93.7
Other 83 18 17.1 10.2-27.3 65 82.9 72.7-89.8
AGE
18-44 186 40 19.0 13.1-26.6 146 81.0 73.4-86.9
45-64 196 51 30.5 22.8-39.5 145 69.5 60.5-77.2
65+ 114 24 20.5 13.7-29.5 90 79.5 70.5-86.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 143 29 26.6 17.9-37.6 114 73.4 62.4-82.1
Some Post-H.S. 149 38 21.4 15.4-28.9 111 78.6 71.1-84.6
College Graduate 211 50 22.1 16.7-28.7 161 77.9 71.3-83.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 165 48 28.7 21.1-37.6 117 71.3 62.4-78.9
$50,000+ 232 51 23.1 16.9-30.7 181 76.9 69.3-83.1
Don't know/Not Sure 107 18 16.0 9.3-26.2 89 84.0 73.8-90.7

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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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