2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Falls (Age 45+)

In the past 12 months, how many times have you fallen?

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  Total
Respond.^
1 fall 2 or more falls No falls
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,542 300 11.8 10.1-13.6 332 12.1 10.4-14.1 1,910 76.1 73.6-78.4
Region 8 462 58 15.5 10.6-22.0 62 12.7 8.7-18.2 342 71.9 64.6-78.2
GENDER
Male 179 21 16.3 9.6-26.3 21 14.5 8.3-24.0 *** *** ***
Female 283 37 14.8 8.6-24.2 41 11.3 6.6-18.7 205 73.8 63.9-81.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 204 29 13.4 8.7-20.1 33 13.3 8.5-20.1 142 73.3 65.1-80.2
Non-Hispanic Black 62 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 193 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 247 28 14.0 7.7-24.0 35 16.5 10.2-25.4 184 69.6 58.8-78.6
65+ 215 30 17.2 10.7-26.6 27 8.2 4.4-14.8 158 74.6 64.7-82.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 157 *** *** *** 26 10.9 5.8-19.5 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 141 20 15.2 8.2-26.5 20 11.9 5.9-22.5 *** *** ***
College Graduate 162 22 14.3 8.2-23.8 16 15.9 8.3-28.4 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 *** *** *** 29 12.9 7.0-22.4 *** *** ***
$50,000+ 175 19 13.5 7.6-22.9 18 14.9 8.1-25.8 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 104 15 10.9 5.2-21.5 15 8.5 4.0-16.8 74 80.6 68.9-88.6

Back to Falls (Age 45+).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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