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2002 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury, for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.#
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,520 4,313 66.4 64.6-68.2 634 9.4 8.4-10.6 639 10.7 9.5-11.9 420 6.4 5.6- 7.4 514 7.0 6.2- 7.9
Eastern NC 775 495 64.1 59.9-68.0 66 9.1 6.9-12.0 73 10.4 8.0-13.5 60 6.9 5.1- 9.3 81 9.5 7.4-12.1
GENDER
Male 280 203 72.8 66.1-78.5 21 8.4 5.1-13.6 23 9.3 5.9-14.2 14 3.9 2.1- 7.1 19 5.7 3.4- 9.3
Female 495 292 56.7 51.4-61.8 45 9.7 7.0-13.3 50 11.4 8.2-15.6 46 9.5 6.7-13.3 62 12.7 9.6-16.6
RACE
White 534 357 67.5 62.6-71.9 44 8.1 5.8-11.3 45 9.1 6.6-12.5 35 5.8 3.9- 8.4 53 9.5 7.0-12.7
Other 237 135 56.9 48.7-64.8 22 11.3 6.9-17.9 28 13.2 8.4-20.2 24 9.0 5.4-14.5 28 9.6 6.1-14.6
AGE
18-44 349 232 64.9 58.7-70.7 35 9.7 6.5-14.1 39 12.3 8.6-17.2 29 8.5 5.7-12.6 14 4.6 2.6- 8.1
45+ 420 259 62.8 57.3-67.9 31 8.5 5.8-12.5 34 8.2 5.6-11.7 30 5.0 3.3- 7.4 66 15.6 11.9-20.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 410 241 59.1 53.1-64.7 37 10.2 7.0-14.7 35 8.7 5.9-12.6 35 7.9 5.3-11.7 62 14.2 10.7-18.6
Some College + 363 252 69.8 63.8-75.2 29 7.9 5.1-11.9 38 12.5 8.7-17.8 25 5.8 3.7- 9.1 19 4.0 2.4- 6.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 437 269 60.1 54.4-65.6 40 10.9 7.6-15.3 45 11.4 8.1-15.8 35 7.2 4.9-10.6 48 10.4 7.5-14.1
$50,000+ 137 101 73.3 63.9-81.0 11 8.1 4.2-15.0 13 12.2 6.8-20.9 7 4.2 1.8- 9.3 5 2.3 0.9- 6.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 406 262 64.3 58.6-69.7 47 12.7 9.1-17.4 48 12.6 9.1-17.2 22 4.7 2.9- 7.4 27 5.7 3.8- 8.7
Forsyth 453 297 65.4 60.1-70.3 48 10.8 7.9-14.6 49 11.3 8.3-15.3 22 5.5 3.5- 8.5 37 7.0 4.8-10.1
Guilford 406 281 69.9 64.2-75.1 44 11.7 8.3-16.4 42 10.9 7.7-15.2 20 3.7 2.1- 6.6 19 3.7 2.3- 6.1
Henderson/Transylvania 463 315 72.0 66.9-76.6 48 9.6 6.7-13.4 39 7.4 5.1-10.6 24 3.9 2.5- 6.2 37 7.1 5.0-10.1
Mecklenburg 436 307 73.5 67.8-78.6 42 10.6 6.8-16.1 41 8.1 5.7-11.6 26 4.7 3.1- 7.1 20 3.0 1.8- 4.8
Orange 432 307 67.6 58.8-75.2 49 10.4 7.5-14.2 36 10.5 7.2-15.2 24 9.1 3.2-23.2 16 2.4 1.4- 4.0
Pitt 402 268 69.7 63.7-75.1 43 11.2 8.0-15.5 36 8.5 5.5-12.9 22 4.9 2.9- 8.0 33 5.8 3.9- 8.4
Randolph 418 283 68.0 60.6-74.6 37 10.1 5.3-18.7 38 8.4 5.8-12.1 28 6.0 3.9- 9.1 32 7.4 4.7-11.4
Robeson 426 268 65.3 59.5-70.7 37 9.2 6.2-13.4 31 8.7 5.9-12.7 32 6.1 4.1- 8.9 58 10.7 7.9-14.2
Wake 416 296 71.3 65.4-76.5 45 10.4 7.4-14.5 47 12.5 8.7-17.7 17 3.8 2.2- 6.5 11 2.0 1.0- 4.1
Western NC 629 385 63.2 58.7-67.5 45 6.9 4.9- 9.7 68 11.3 8.7-14.6 56 7.3 5.5- 9.6 75 11.3 8.7-14.4
Piedmont NC 858 549 65.3 61.3-69.2 83 9.0 7.0-11.5 91 11.2 8.7-14.2 67 7.9 6.0-10.3 68 6.6 5.0- 8.6

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#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, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, Wilson
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Montgomery, Moore, Person, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Warren, Yadkin
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey

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