SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

BRFSS Survey Results 2001 for Onslow County

Arthritis

During the past 12 months, have you had pain, aching, stiffness or swelling in or around a joint?

Back to Arthritis. Select a different topic for Onslow County:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,197 2,570 40.2 38.3-42.2 3,627 59.8 57.8-61.7
Onslow County 435 179 37.2 31.3-43.5 256 62.8 56.5-68.7
GENDER
Male 179 86 40.6 30.9-51.1 93 59.4 48.9-69.1
Female 256 93 33.1 27.1-39.7 163 66.9 60.3-72.9
RACE
White 336 141 37.4 30.7-44.7 195 62.6 55.3-69.3
Other 86 33 36.2 24.1-50.2 53 63.8 49.8-75.9
AGE
18-44 268 90 29.4 22.8-37.0 178 70.6 63.0-77.2
45+ 164 89 53.9 45.0-62.6 75 46.1 37.4-55.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 92 43.2 35.1-51.6 116 56.8 48.4-64.9
Some College + 226 86 31.5 23.8-40.3 140 68.5 59.7-76.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 268 111 36.8 29.2-45.0 157 63.2 55.0-70.8
$50,000+ 91 36 43.9 32.7-55.8 55 56.1 44.2-67.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 424 193 42.9 37.7-48.3 231 57.1 51.7-62.3
Cumberland 429 173 34.8 28.6-41.7 256 65.2 58.3-71.4
Durham 400 144 34.7 28.7-41.3 256 65.3 58.7-71.3
Forsyth 455 186 40.1 34.9-45.5 269 59.9 54.5-65.1
Gaston 465 203 40.1 35.3-45.2 262 59.9 54.8-64.7
Guilford 418 154 33.4 28.5-38.6 264 66.6 61.4-71.5
Mecklenburg 431 147 31.6 27.0-36.6 284 68.4 63.4-73.0
New Hanover 405 172 40.1 34.2-46.4 233 59.9 53.6-65.8
Wake 426 157 35.5 30.5-40.9 269 64.5 59.1-69.5
Western NC 619 301 46.5 42.1-50.9 318 53.5 49.1-57.9
Piedmont NC 670 293 43.2 38.4-48.1 377 56.8 51.9-61.6
Eastern NC 620 268 41.1 36.5-45.8 352 58.9 54.2-63.5

Back to Arthritis.

#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

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 13SEP02.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook