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| Total Respond.# |
Yes | No | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| TOTAL | 636 | 136 | 21.2 | 16.5-26.7 | 500 | 78.8 | 73.3-83.5 |
| GENDER | |||||||
| Male | 296 | 64 | 21.6 | 15.7-29.0 | 232 | 78.4 | 71.0-84.3 |
| Female | 340 | 72 | 20.6 | 13.7-29.8 | 268 | 79.4 | 70.2-86.3 |
| RACE | |||||||
| White | 533 | 114 | 23.4 | 17.9-30.0 | 419 | 76.6 | 70.0-82.1 |
| African American | 84 | 17 | 10.6 | 5.5-19.2 | 67 | 89.4 | 80.8-94.5 |
| Other Minorities | 10 | 3 | 12.6 | 2.9-40.6 | 7 | 87.4 | 59.4-97.1 |
| HISPANIC | |||||||
| Yes | 6 | 4 | 63.2 | 15.9-94.0 | 2 | 36.8 | 6.0-84.1 |
| No | 626 | 131 | 20.5 | 15.9-26.1 | 495 | 79.5 | 73.9-84.1 |
| AGE | |||||||
| 35-44 | 71 | 30 | 46.5 | 27.8-66.3 | 41 | 53.5 | 33.7-72.2 |
| 45-54 | 139 | 40 | 20.0 | 12.6-30.1 | 99 | 80.0 | 69.9-87.4 |
| 55-64 | 163 | 34 | 25.8 | 16.7-37.5 | 129 | 74.2 | 62.5-83.3 |
| 65+ | 254 | 32 | 9.7 | 5.8-15.7 | 222 | 90.3 | 84.3-94.2 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||
| Less Than H.S. | 138 | 25 | 17.8 | 10.4-28.8 | 113 | 82.2 | 71.2-89.6 |
| H.S. or G.E.D. | 188 | 42 | 27.3 | 17.2-40.5 | 146 | 72.7 | 59.5-82.8 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 148 | 35 | 20.9 | 13.4-31.3 | 113 | 79.1 | 68.7-86.6 |
| College Graduate | 160 | 34 | 17.5 | 10.5-27.6 | 126 | 82.5 | 72.4-89.5 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||
| Less than $15,000 | 76 | 18 | 21.9 | 11.2-38.3 | 58 | 78.1 | 61.7-88.8 |
| $15,000- 24,999 | 121 | 29 | 17.4 | 10.2-28.0 | 92 | 82.6 | 72.0-89.8 |
| $25,000- 34,999 | 70 | 17 | 38.3 | 17.8-64.0 | 53 | 61.7 | 36.0-82.2 |
| $35,000- 49,999 | 74 | 16 | 32.9 | 19.1-50.3 | 58 | 67.1 | 49.7-80.9 |
| $50,000+ | 147 | 33 | 16.6 | 10.3-25.7 | 114 | 83.4 | 74.3-89.7 |
| COUNTY/REGION** | |||||||
| Buncombe | 36 | 9 | 23.8 | 12.0-41.8 | 27 | 76.2 | 58.2-88.0 |
| Cumberland | 41 | 11 | 28.4 | 16.1-45.1 | 30 | 71.6 | 54.9-83.9 |
| Durham | 33 | 7 | 14.1 | 4.8-34.7 | 26 | 85.9 | 65.3-95.2 |
| Forsyth | 58 | 9 | 14.0 | 6.9-26.3 | 49 | 86.0 | 73.7-93.1 |
| Gaston | 46 | 13 | 28.2 | 16.5-43.8 | 33 | 71.8 | 56.2-83.5 |
| Guilford | 53 | 12 | 21.6 | 11.9-36.1 | 41 | 78.4 | 63.9-88.1 |
| Mecklenburg | 38 | 13 | 32.7 | 18.7-50.8 | 25 | 67.3 | 49.2-81.3 |
| New Hanover | 46 | 8 | 21.1 | 10.0-39.1 | 38 | 78.9 | 60.9-90.0 |
| Onslow | 42 | 8 | 13.5 | 6.1-27.1 | 34 | 86.5 | 72.9-93.9 |
| Wake | 32 | 8 | 26.6 | 13.2-46.3 | 24 | 73.4 | 53.7-86.8 |
| Western NC | 75 | 8 | 9.3 | 4.6-18.2 | 67 | 90.7 | 81.8-95.4 |
| Piedmont NC | 80 | 20 | 27.4 | 16.6-41.7 | 60 | 72.6 | 58.3-83.4 |
| Eastern NC | 56 | 10 | 13.3 | 5.9-27.5 | 46 | 86.7 | 72.5-94.1 |
+ Approximately half of the respondents received questions from this topic See Technical Notes for more information.
* This question was asked only of respondents who reported taking aspirin regularly.
#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.
** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene,
Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, Wilson
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Franklin, Granville, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Montgomery, Moore, Orange,
Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Warren, Yadkin
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood,
Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey
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