SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

BRFSS Survey Results 2002 for Randolph County

Tobacco Use

Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?

Select a different topic for Randolph County:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,721 3,272 50.3 48.4-52.2 3,449 49.7 47.8-51.6
Randolph County 429 213 53.7 47.8-59.5 216 46.3 40.5-52.2
GENDER
Male 173 96 56.1 47.3-64.5 77 43.9 35.5-52.7
Female 256 117 51.4 43.4-59.4 139 48.6 40.6-56.6
RACE
White 388 199 56.3 50.1-62.3 189 43.7 37.7-49.9
Other 39 13 27.6 15.2-44.7 26 72.4 55.3-84.8
AGE
18-44 179 91 54.0 44.8-62.8 88 46.0 37.2-55.2
45+ 247 120 53.2 46.0-60.2 127 46.8 39.8-54.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 282 150 58.2 51.0-65.1 132 41.8 34.9-49.0
Some College + 147 63 44.5 35.0-54.4 84 55.5 45.6-65.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 235 137 56.6 49.1-63.8 98 43.4 36.2-50.9
$50,000+ 80 38 52.8 39.9-65.2 42 47.2 34.8-60.1
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 413 201 48.9 43.2-54.6 212 51.1 45.4-56.8
Forsyth 464 239 50.3 45.0-55.7 225 49.7 44.3-55.0
Guilford 423 198 47.2 41.4-53.1 225 52.8 46.9-58.6
Henderson/Transylvania 472 244 53.7 47.8-59.5 228 46.3 40.5-52.2
Mecklenburg 447 184 39.6 33.7-45.8 263 60.4 54.2-66.3
Orange 441 176 32.9 27.4-38.9 265 67.1 61.1-72.6
Pitt 418 194 47.4 41.4-53.4 224 52.6 46.6-58.6
Robeson 444 219 49.6 43.6-55.6 225 50.4 44.4-56.4
Wake 431 180 43.0 37.6-48.7 251 57.0 51.3-62.4
Western NC 656 358 56.5 52.0-61.0 298 43.5 39.0-48.0
Piedmont NC 885 454 53.0 48.7-57.2 431 47.0 42.8-51.3
Eastern NC 798 412 52.3 48.0-56.5 386 47.7 43.5-52.0

Back to Tobacco Use.

#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

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 14JUL03.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook