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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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	Total Respond.^	Past month	Past year	Past 2 years	2+ years ago	Never
TOTAL	938	211	21.7	17.9-26.1	499	53.8	49.0-58.6	109	10.1	7.8-13.0	96	11.1	8.3-14.8	23	3.3	2.0- 5.4
GENDER
Male	366	82	24.0	18.0-31.3	190	51.2	43.8-58.6	41	8.5	5.5-13.0	41	12.7	8.3-19.0	12	3.5	1.8- 6.8
Female	572	129	19.5	15.2-24.6	309	56.3	50.1-62.2	68	11.6	8.4-15.8	55	9.6	6.4-14.2	11	3.1	1.5- 6.4
RACE
White	589	125	22.2	17.4-27.8	314	52.0	46.0-57.9	74	10.9	7.9-14.7	65	12.1	8.6-16.9	11	2.9	1.4- 5.7
African American	293	70	21.9	15.5-30.1	161	59.5	51.0-67.6	26	7.2	4.2-12.1	25	6.9	3.6-12.7	11	4.5	2.2- 8.9
Asian	4	0	0.0	. - .	3	93.8	58.5-99.4	1	6.2	0.6-41.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	33	10	20.1	8.0-42.2	12	22.2	9.6-43.5	8	29.0	10.9-57.6	2	23.0	3.9-68.6	1	5.8	0.8-32.2
Other Minorities	17	5	11.0	3.8-28.2	8	64.7	35.2-86.1	0	0.0	. - .	4	24.3	7.3-56.5	0	0.0	. - .
HISPANIC
Hispanic	10	3	22.5	6.2-56.1	4	41.7	15.2-74.1	0	0.0	. - .	3	35.8	10.3-73.0	0	0.0	. - .
-English Speaking	5	1	25.8	3.6-76.2	3	67.8	22.6-93.8	0	0.0	. - .	1	6.4	0.8-38.1	0	0.0	. - .
-Spanish Speaking	5	2	20.1	3.5-63.6	1	22.9	3.0-74.4	0	0.0	. - .	2	56.9	15.9-90.2	0	0.0	. - .
Non-Hispanic	928	208	21.7	17.9-26.1	495	53.9	49.0-58.7	109	10.1	7.8-13.1	93	11.0	8.1-14.7	23	3.3	2.0- 5.4
AGE
18-24	7	0	0.0	. - .	4	51.2	18.1-83.3	0	0.0	. - .	1	10.7	1.4-50.1	2	38.1	10.4-76.6
25-34	26	5	12.6	4.1-32.9	11	52.2	26.4-76.9	3	5.3	1.3-19.0	5	24.2	6.4-60.0	2	5.6	1.3-21.3
35-44	87	14	24.7	12.2-43.6	38	37.3	24.4-52.4	16	14.2	7.4-25.6	12	14.4	6.2-30.1	7	9.3	3.9-20.6
45-54	160	36	17.2	10.6-26.6	84	57.7	46.1-68.5	20	8.2	4.4-14.8	15	10.6	4.9-21.7	5	6.3	2.4-15.9
55-64	239	58	21.2	14.5-29.9	118	51.9	42.6-61.0	34	14.6	9.2-22.5	27	11.5	6.8-18.9	2	0.8	0.2- 3.4
65-74	235	51	21.3	14.5-30.2	135	59.3	49.7-68.2	22	7.9	4.3-14.2	22	9.8	5.4-16.9	5	1.7	0.6- 5.3
75+	180	46	27.9	19.1-38.8	106	57.4	46.5-67.6	14	6.3	3.2-12.2	14	8.4	3.7-18.0	0	0.0	. - .
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	292	66	19.8	13.8-27.6	141	51.9	43.4-60.3	40	11.3	7.3-17.0	39	14.3	9.3-21.4	6	2.7	0.8- 8.6
H.S. or G.E.D.	293	53	21.7	14.4-31.4	160	51.7	42.9-60.5	40	13.1	8.8-19.0	30	8.3	4.9-13.6	10	5.2	2.6-10.1
Some Post-H.S.	198	52	23.2	16.0-32.6	108	55.1	45.0-64.8	16	6.4	3.3-12.0	18	12.7	6.6-23.0	4	2.6	0.8- 8.0
College Graduate	152	38	22.7	15.1-32.8	89	57.7	45.8-68.8	13	8.4	3.4-19.4	9	9.3	3.5-22.4	3	1.8	0.4- 7.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	227	45	19.7	12.7-29.3	127	57.2	47.2-66.7	30	10.5	6.4-16.9	21	11.0	6.4-18.1	4	1.5	0.5- 4.8
$15,000- 24,999	176	36	16.7	10.3-25.8	90	57.2	46.3-67.4	23	12.1	7.1-19.9	21	8.8	4.7-15.9	6	5.2	1.8-14.1
$25,000- 34,999	94	26	27.3	16.2-42.0	46	44.0	30.6-58.3	12	9.0	4.2-18.1	9	19.3	8.6-37.9	1	0.4	0.1- 2.9
$35,000- 49,999	82	10	18.8	8.1-37.7	46	56.3	40.3-71.0	16	12.0	6.4-21.4	7	9.0	2.7-26.1	3	3.9	0.8-16.5
$50,000-74,999	63	17	18.9	10.2-32.4	33	54.1	37.2-70.2	8	13.1	5.9-26.6	4	11.2	3.0-34.4	1	2.7	0.4-16.7
$75,000+	48	11	26.4	10.1-53.4	27	52.5	31.4-72.8	5	14.9	4.3-40.7	5	6.2	1.7-20.2	0	0.0	. - .
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	41	10	22.8	11.8-39.5	19	43.4	27.8-60.5	5	13.2	4.9-30.9	5	13.8	5.3-31.5	2	6.8	1.5-26.3
Guilford	35	5	13.5	5.3-30.3	20	55.2	36.8-72.3	6	19.7	8.4-39.7	3	5.5	1.7-16.8	1	6.0	0.9-32.1
Mecklenburg	39	9	19.3	9.8-34.6	21	54.4	36.9-70.8	2	4.9	1.0-20.5	4	12.8	4.1-33.4	3	8.5	2.5-25.1
Orange	25	4	11.3	3.9-28.5	11	46.5	26.2-68.0	4	13.2	4.6-32.4	6	29.1	13.1-52.6	0	0.0	. - .
Wake	30	5	14.6	5.6-33.1	20	61.5	40.0-79.3	2	7.2	1.7-26.6	2	11.3	2.3-40.5	1	5.4	0.8-29.7
Chatham/Lee	32	3	10.7	3.1-31.0	23	76.0	57.1-88.2	4	9.5	3.4-23.7	1	2.4	0.3-15.4	1	1.4	0.2- 9.7
Nash/Wilson	43	11	25.1	13.2-42.5	20	43.9	28.3-60.8	8	19.8	9.9-35.7	3	9.1	2.4-28.8	1	2.1	0.3-13.4
Craven/Pamlico	54	14	24.7	14.5-38.9	29	51.6	36.9-66.1	7	17.3	7.4-35.1	4	6.4	2.3-16.7	0	0.0	. - .
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	45	9	17.4	8.0-33.7	24	56.9	39.0-73.1	7	16.0	7.2-32.1	4	7.7	2.4-21.9	1	2.0	0.3-13.2
Appalachian/Wilkes	29	12	37.2	20.4-57.9	14	51.0	31.5-70.2	1	5.4	0.8-29.6	2	6.4	1.6-23.0	0	0.0	. - .
Franklin/Gran./Vance	32	7	15.5	7.0-30.9	17	59.4	40.7-75.7	2	5.8	1.3-22.0	4	12.7	4.5-31.1	2	6.6	1.6-23.1
Graham/Swain/Jackson	46	13	27.4	15.9-43.1	21	47.6	32.4-63.2	5	10.1	3.7-24.8	7	14.9	6.6-30.1	0	0.0	. - .
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	80	13	16.6	9.4-27.7	47	61.9	49.7-72.8	13	13.9	7.7-23.8	6	5.8	2.4-13.3	1	1.8	0.3-12.0
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	55	11	19.0	10.2-32.8	27	44.7	30.6-59.6	7	15.8	6.5-33.7	9	16.3	8.3-29.7	1	4.2	0.6-24.1
Northeast NC I	70	18	22.3	13.8-34.0	37	56.4	43.4-68.7	7	6.7	3.1-13.8	6	8.8	3.8-19.1	2	5.8	1.5-20.2
Northeast NC II	62	15	21.5	12.4-34.5	30	47.3	33.6-61.5	7	10.6	4.7-22.2	9	18.6	9.5-33.3	1	2.0	0.3-12.6
Northeastern Partnership	132	33	21.8	15.0-30.6	67	50.9	41.0-60.9	14	9.1	4.9-16.1	15	14.7	8.5-24.3	3	3.5	1.1-10.2
Mountain AHEC	129	38	30.4	20.7-42.1	62	48.6	37.5-60.0	14	11.7	6.0-21.5	13	7.3	3.5-14.4	2	2.1	0.4- 9.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	418	95	21.3	16.2-27.4	220	52.9	45.8-59.9	51	11.5	7.9-16.5	45	12.4	8.3-18.0	7	1.9	0.9- 3.9
Piedmont	328	61	21.3	15.4-28.7	183	54.6	47.0-62.0	37	8.4	5.3-13.0	33	11.0	6.8-17.4	14	4.8	2.5- 8.8
Western NC	192	55	24.3	17.2-33.2	96	53.1	43.3-62.6	21	12.8	7.6-20.8	18	8.4	4.4-15.5	2	1.3	0.3- 6.1

Total
Respond.^

Past month

Past year

Past 2 years

2+ years ago

Never

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

938

211

21.7

17.9-26.1

499

53.8

49.0-58.6

109

10.1

7.8-13.0

11.1

8.3-14.8

3.3

2.0- 5.4

GENDER

Male

366

24.0

18.0-31.3

190

51.2

43.8-58.6

8.5

5.5-13.0

12.7

8.3-19.0

3.5

1.8- 6.8

Female

572

129

19.5

15.2-24.6

309

56.3

50.1-62.2

11.6

8.4-15.8

9.6

6.4-14.2

3.1

1.5- 6.4

RACE

White

589

125

22.2

17.4-27.8

314

52.0

46.0-57.9

10.9

7.9-14.7

12.1

8.6-16.9

2.9

1.4- 5.7

African American

293

21.9

15.5-30.1

161

59.5

51.0-67.6

7.2

4.2-12.1

6.9

3.6-12.7

4.5

2.2- 8.9

Asian

0.0

. - .

93.8

58.5-99.4

6.2

0.6-41.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Native American

20.1

8.0-42.2

22.2

9.6-43.5

29.0

10.9-57.6

23.0

3.9-68.6

5.8

0.8-32.2

Other Minorities

11.0

3.8-28.2

64.7

35.2-86.1

0.0

. - .

24.3

7.3-56.5

0.0

. - .

HISPANIC

Hispanic

22.5

6.2-56.1

41.7

15.2-74.1

0.0

. - .

35.8

10.3-73.0

0.0

. - .

-English Speaking

25.8

3.6-76.2

67.8

22.6-93.8

0.0

. - .

6.4

0.8-38.1

0.0

. - .

-Spanish Speaking

20.1

3.5-63.6

22.9

3.0-74.4

0.0

. - .

56.9

15.9-90.2

0.0

. - .

Non-Hispanic

928

208

21.7

17.9-26.1

495

53.9

49.0-58.7

109

10.1

7.8-13.1

11.0

8.1-14.7

3.3

2.0- 5.4

AGE

18-24

0.0

. - .

51.2

18.1-83.3

0.0

. - .

10.7

1.4-50.1

38.1

10.4-76.6

25-34

12.6

4.1-32.9

52.2

26.4-76.9

5.3

1.3-19.0

24.2

6.4-60.0

5.6

1.3-21.3

35-44

24.7

12.2-43.6

37.3

24.4-52.4

14.2

7.4-25.6

14.4

6.2-30.1

9.3

3.9-20.6

45-54

160

17.2

10.6-26.6

57.7

46.1-68.5

8.2

4.4-14.8

10.6

4.9-21.7

6.3

2.4-15.9

55-64

239

21.2

14.5-29.9

118

51.9

42.6-61.0

14.6

9.2-22.5

11.5

6.8-18.9

0.8

0.2- 3.4

65-74

235

21.3

14.5-30.2

135

59.3

49.7-68.2

7.9

4.3-14.2

9.8

5.4-16.9

1.7

0.6- 5.3

75+

180

27.9

19.1-38.8

106

57.4

46.5-67.6

6.3

3.2-12.2

8.4

3.7-18.0

0.0

. - .

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

292

19.8

13.8-27.6

141

51.9

43.4-60.3

11.3

7.3-17.0

14.3

9.3-21.4

2.7

0.8- 8.6

H.S. or G.E.D.

293

21.7

14.4-31.4

160

51.7

42.9-60.5

13.1

8.8-19.0

8.3

4.9-13.6

5.2

2.6-10.1

Some Post-H.S.

198

23.2

16.0-32.6

108

55.1

45.0-64.8

6.4

3.3-12.0

12.7

6.6-23.0

2.6

0.8- 8.0

College Graduate

152

22.7

15.1-32.8

57.7

45.8-68.8

8.4

3.4-19.4

9.3

3.5-22.4

1.8

0.4- 7.8

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

227

19.7

12.7-29.3

127

57.2

47.2-66.7

10.5

6.4-16.9

11.0

6.4-18.1

1.5

0.5- 4.8

$15,000- 24,999

176

16.7

10.3-25.8

57.2

46.3-67.4

12.1

7.1-19.9

8.8

4.7-15.9

5.2

1.8-14.1

$25,000- 34,999

27.3

16.2-42.0

44.0

30.6-58.3

9.0

4.2-18.1

19.3

8.6-37.9

0.4

0.1- 2.9

$35,000- 49,999

18.8

8.1-37.7

56.3

40.3-71.0

12.0

6.4-21.4

9.0

2.7-26.1

3.9

0.8-16.5

$50,000-74,999

18.9

10.2-32.4

54.1

37.2-70.2

13.1

5.9-26.6

11.2

3.0-34.4

2.7

0.4-16.7

$75,000+

26.4

10.1-53.4

52.5

31.4-72.8

14.9

4.3-40.7

6.2

1.7-20.2

0.0

. - .

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

22.8

11.8-39.5

43.4

27.8-60.5

13.2

4.9-30.9

13.8

5.3-31.5

6.8

1.5-26.3

Guilford

13.5

5.3-30.3

55.2

36.8-72.3

19.7

8.4-39.7

5.5

1.7-16.8

6.0

0.9-32.1

Mecklenburg

19.3

9.8-34.6

54.4

36.9-70.8

4.9

1.0-20.5

12.8

4.1-33.4

8.5

2.5-25.1

Orange

11.3

3.9-28.5

46.5

26.2-68.0

13.2

4.6-32.4

29.1

13.1-52.6

0.0

. - .

Wake

14.6

5.6-33.1

61.5

40.0-79.3

7.2

1.7-26.6

11.3

2.3-40.5

5.4

0.8-29.7

Chatham/Lee

10.7

3.1-31.0

76.0

57.1-88.2

9.5

3.4-23.7

2.4

0.3-15.4

1.4

0.2- 9.7

Nash/Wilson

25.1

13.2-42.5

43.9

28.3-60.8

19.8

9.9-35.7

9.1

2.4-28.8

2.1

0.3-13.4

Craven/Pamlico

24.7

14.5-38.9

51.6

36.9-66.1

17.3

7.4-35.1

6.4

2.3-16.7

0.0

. - .

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

17.4

8.0-33.7

56.9

39.0-73.1

16.0

7.2-32.1

7.7

2.4-21.9

2.0

0.3-13.2

Appalachian/Wilkes

37.2

20.4-57.9

51.0

31.5-70.2

5.4

0.8-29.6

6.4

1.6-23.0

0.0

. - .

Franklin/Gran./Vance

15.5

7.0-30.9

59.4

40.7-75.7

5.8

1.3-22.0

12.7

4.5-31.1

6.6

1.6-23.1

Graham/Swain/Jackson

27.4

15.9-43.1

47.6

32.4-63.2

10.1

3.7-24.8

14.9

6.6-30.1

0.0

. - .

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

16.6

9.4-27.7

61.9

49.7-72.8

13.9

7.7-23.8

5.8

2.4-13.3

1.8

0.3-12.0

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

19.0

10.2-32.8

44.7

30.6-59.6

15.8

6.5-33.7

16.3

8.3-29.7

4.2

0.6-24.1

Northeast NC I

22.3

13.8-34.0

56.4

43.4-68.7

6.7

3.1-13.8

8.8

3.8-19.1

5.8

1.5-20.2

Northeast NC II

21.5

12.4-34.5

47.3

33.6-61.5

10.6

4.7-22.2

18.6

9.5-33.3

2.0

0.3-12.6

Northeastern Partnership

132

21.8

15.0-30.6

50.9

41.0-60.9

9.1

4.9-16.1

14.7

8.5-24.3

3.5

1.1-10.2

Mountain AHEC

129

30.4

20.7-42.1

48.6

37.5-60.0

11.7

6.0-21.5

7.3

3.5-14.4

2.1

0.4- 9.2

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

418

21.3

16.2-27.4

220

52.9

45.8-59.9

11.5

7.9-16.5

12.4

8.3-18.0

1.9

0.9- 3.9

Piedmont

328

21.3

15.4-28.7

183

54.6

47.0-62.0

8.4

5.3-13.0

11.0

6.8-17.4

4.8

2.5- 8.8

Western NC

192

24.3

17.2-33.2

53.1

43.3-62.6

12.8

7.6-20.8

8.4

4.4-15.5

1.3

0.3- 6.1

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^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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