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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Physical Activity-AFRICAN AMERICANS

In the past 12 months has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional talked to you about preventing sexually transmitted diseases through condom use?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,469 305 21.1 18.1-24.5 1,164 78.9 75.5-81.9
GENDER
Male 488 67 17.4 12.9-23.1 421 82.6 76.9-87.1
Female 981 238 24.2 20.4-28.5 743 75.8 71.5-79.6
AGE
18-24 138 67 33.5 23.9-44.6 71 66.5 55.4-76.1
25-34 281 93 34.2 26.5-42.7 188 65.8 57.3-73.5
35-44 364 77 17.3 12.2-23.9 287 82.7 76.1-87.8
45-54 407 37 8.5 5.0-14.1 370 91.5 85.9-95.0
55-64 279 31 10.9 6.8-16.9 248 89.1 83.1-93.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 231 51 22.3 15.2-31.4 180 77.7 68.6-84.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 546 122 21.3 16.4-27.0 424 78.7 73.0-83.6
Some Post-H.S. 394 91 26.9 20.6-34.3 303 73.1 65.7-79.4
College Graduate 297 41 12.2 7.7-18.6 256 87.8 81.4-92.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 225 71 36.4 27.3-46.6 154 63.6 53.4-72.7
$15,000- 24,999 361 100 29.7 22.5-38.1 261 70.3 61.9-77.5
$25,000- 34,999 207 45 18.2 12.2-26.1 162 81.8 73.9-87.8
$35,000- 49,999 186 30 17.3 10.6-26.8 156 82.7 73.2-89.4
$50,000-74,999 113 9 8.7 3.7-19.4 104 91.3 80.6-96.3
$75,000+ 91 4 5.1 1.6-15.6 87 94.9 84.4-98.4
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 23 8 40.5 20.7-63.8 15 59.5 36.2-79.3
Guilford 96 24 30.4 19.8-43.7 72 69.6 56.3-80.2
Mecklenburg 102 19 24.4 15.8-35.7 83 75.6 64.3-84.2
Orange 41 9 20.2 10.1-36.2 32 79.8 63.8-89.9
Wake 73 14 14.6 7.9-25.5 59 85.4 74.5-92.1
Chatham/Lee 56 15 20.5 11.8-33.0 41 79.5 67.0-88.2
Nash/Wilson 106 21 16.2 10.2-24.7 85 83.8 75.3-89.8
Craven/Pamlico 64 8 12.8 5.9-25.4 56 87.2 74.6-94.1
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 11 1 6.5 0.9-35.9 10 93.5 64.1-99.1
Appalachian/Wilkes 7 2 29.7 6.9-70.7 5 70.3 29.3-93.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance 128 31 19.0 10.8-31.3 97 81.0 68.7-89.2
Graham/Swain/Jackson 9 2 21.2 4.9-58.3 7 78.8 41.7-95.1
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 119 27 23.6 15.3-34.6 92 76.4 65.4-84.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 92 12 13.7 7.0-25.2 80 86.3 74.8-93.0
Northeast NC I 180 35 17.9 12.5-24.9 145 82.1 75.1-87.5
Northeast NC II 112 22 17.0 10.3-26.6 90 83.0 73.4-89.7
Northeastern Partnership 292 57 17.4 12.8-23.2 235 82.6 76.8-87.2
Mountain AHEC 39 12 37.8 20.8-58.5 27 62.2 41.5-79.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 767 147 19.5 15.4-24.5 620 80.5 75.5-84.6
Piedmont 645 143 22.2 18.0-27.1 502 77.8 72.9-82.0
Western NC 57 15 23.0 11.5-40.8 42 77.0 59.2-88.5

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* This question was asked only of respondents who reported being less than age 65.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** 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, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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