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2002 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

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%)
All Participants 97,970 64,689 65.5 64.9-66.1 10,267 11.4 11.0-11.7 10,637 11.3 10.9-11.7 6,551 6.7 6.3- 7.0 5,826 5.2 5.0- 5.5
Alaska 2,586 1,729 64.6 61.6-67.4 292 13.7 11.5-16.2 299 11.5 9.8-13.5 144 5.5 4.3- 7.0 122 4.7 3.6- 6.3
California 4,205 2,640 63.5 61.7-65.3 523 11.8 10.7-13.0 477 11.1 10.0-12.3 327 8.0 7.0- 9.1 238 5.6 4.7- 6.6
Hawaii 5,947 4,275 73.8 72.3-75.3 420 7.0 6.2- 7.9 639 10.7 9.7-11.8 403 5.9 5.2- 6.7 210 2.6 2.2- 3.0
Idaho 4,844 3,188 66.2 64.5-67.8 512 11.0 10.0-12.2 546 11.6 10.6-12.8 329 6.6 5.8- 7.5 269 4.6 3.9- 5.3
Illinois 2,571 1,711 66.7 64.5-68.8 271 10.5 9.2-11.9 269 10.8 9.3-12.4 169 6.7 5.6- 8.0 151 5.3 4.4- 6.4
Iowa 3,507 2,457 70.3 68.4-72.1 391 12.1 10.8-13.5 317 9.3 8.1-10.5 163 4.1 3.4- 4.9 179 4.3 3.6- 5.1
Kansas 4,423 3,042 69.6 68.1-71.2 522 12.1 11.1-13.3 430 9.6 8.7-10.6 232 4.8 4.2- 5.5 197 3.8 3.3- 4.4
Kentucky 6,421 4,229 66.7 64.7-68.7 313 6.5 5.5- 7.8 569 10.1 8.6-11.7 575 7.9 7.0- 9.0 735 8.8 7.9- 9.7
Minnesota 4,375 2,917 66.3 64.6-67.9 557 13.7 12.5-15.0 445 10.6 9.5-11.8 242 5.3 4.6- 6.1 214 4.2 3.6- 4.8
Missouri 4,635 2,938 65.7 63.8-67.5 472 10.4 9.2-11.6 491 10.9 9.7-12.2 325 6.3 5.4- 7.3 409 6.7 6.0- 7.6
New Jersey 5,833 3,804 66.3 63.7-68.7 682 12.1 10.5-13.9 673 11.1 9.6-12.7 399 6.6 5.3- 8.1 275 4.0 3.2- 5.0
New Mexico 4,476 2,984 67.5 65.7-69.2 437 10.1 9.0-11.3 444 10.3 9.2-11.5 326 7.0 6.1- 7.9 285 5.2 4.5- 6.0
New York 4,220 2,756 66.2 64.5-67.9 483 10.9 9.9-12.0 491 11.8 10.6-13.0 278 6.3 5.5- 7.2 212 4.9 4.1- 5.7
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- 8.0
Oregon 2,934 1,887 64.6 62.6-66.6 333 11.6 10.4-13.1 356 12.4 11.1-13.9 212 6.8 5.8- 7.9 146 4.6 3.8- 5.5
Rhode Island 3,656 2,390 66.4 64.5-68.2 384 11.0 9.7-12.5 385 10.0 8.9-11.3 274 7.0 6.1- 8.0 223 5.6 4.8- 6.5
South Carolina 4,109 2,668 65.7 63.7-67.7 406 10.7 9.4-12.2 475 11.3 10.1-12.6 277 5.9 5.0- 6.9 283 6.4 5.5- 7.4
Texas 5,722 3,772 66.5 65.0-67.9 623 11.1 10.2-12.2 652 11.3 10.4-12.4 368 6.2 5.5- 6.9 307 4.9 4.3- 5.6
Utah 4,005 2,591 63.5 61.4-65.7 503 14.3 12.7-15.9 464 12.0 10.6-13.5 267 6.2 5.3- 7.3 180 4.0 3.2- 4.9
Virginia 4,019 2,548 63.4 61.2-65.5 500 13.4 12.0-15.0 491 12.6 11.1-14.3 275 6.5 5.6- 7.4 205 4.1 3.5- 4.8
Washington 4,747 3,029 63.0 61.2-64.7 572 12.8 11.7-14.1 601 13.5 12.3-14.8 292 5.8 5.0- 6.7 253 4.9 4.2- 5.7
Wyoming 3,432 2,313 67.5 65.7-69.3 358 11.2 10.0-12.6 364 10.6 9.5-12.0 198 5.6 4.8- 6.5 199 5.0 4.3- 5.8
Guam 783 508 65.1 61.0-69.0 79 9.5 7.4-12.1 120 16.5 13.6-19.8 56 7.1 5.2- 9.7 20 1.8 1.1- 3.2

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

#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.

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