BRFSS 2003 - North Carolina: (On the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*)

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Alcohol Consumption-FEMALES

On the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*

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	Total Respond.^	Only one	Two	Three	Four	Five or more
TOTAL	1,878	1,104	57.1	53.6-60.4	543	28.2	25.2-31.4	144	8.4	6.5-10.7	49	3.7	2.5- 5.5	38	2.6	1.7- 4.0
RACE
White	1,576	931	56.3	52.5-59.9	466	29.6	26.3-33.2	116	8.6	6.5-11.2	36	3.3	2.1- 5.2	27	2.2	1.3- 3.7
African American	230	136	58.8	49.3-67.7	55	25.4	18.0-34.5	21	6.6	3.6-11.9	9	4.1	1.7-10.0	9	5.1	2.2-11.4
Asian	6	6	100	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	26	6	21.8	7.0-50.6	12	25.0	9.5-51.4	4	43.8	13.1-80.1	3	7.5	1.7-27.0	1	2.0	0.2-14.0
Other Minorities	32	21	73.7	47.3-89.7	7	7.0	2.5-17.8	2	4.2	0.9-18.0	1	12.0	1.8-50.6	1	3.2	0.4-20.0
HISPANIC
Hispanic	36	20	71.6	45.9-88.3	12	12.0	5.1-25.9	3	4.2	1.2-13.6	1	12.2	1.8-51.2	0	0.0	. - .
-English Speaking	26	12	73.1	49.4-88.4	12	21.4	8.7-43.8	2	5.4	1.2-21.6	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
-Spanish Speaking	10	8	69.7	23.4-94.5	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.5	0.3-18.0	1	27.8	4.3-76.7	0	0.0	. - .
Non-Hispanic	1,840	1,084	56.6	53.2-60.0	529	28.7	25.7-32.0	141	8.5	6.6-10.9	48	3.4	2.3- 5.1	38	2.7	1.8- 4.1
AGE
18-24	146	55	41.9	30.8-53.9	41	26.8	17.2-39.1	32	19.3	11.1-31.4	7	5.6	2.2-13.8	11	6.4	3.1-12.8
25-34	348	162	45.4	38.0-53.0	125	36.5	29.5-44.1	35	9.7	6.0-15.4	14	5.8	2.6-12.4	12	2.6	1.2- 5.4
35-44	447	250	56.0	49.6-62.3	127	26.7	21.3-32.8	42	9.7	6.6-14.1	20	4.6	2.5- 8.3	8	3.0	1.2- 7.2
45-54	426	245	60.8	54.0-67.2	145	29.8	24.2-36.2	24	4.7	2.9- 7.6	7	2.8	1.0- 7.3	5	1.8	0.5- 6.0
55-64	245	182	74.0	64.9-81.4	53	22.8	15.7-32.0	8	2.8	1.2- 6.4	1	0.1	0.0- 1.0	1	0.3	0.0- 2.0
65-74	154	114	80.9	71.3-87.9	37	18.2	11.3-27.9	2	0.5	0.1- 2.1	0	0.0	. - .	1	0.4	0.1- 2.7
75+	97	86	81.8	67.0-90.8	11	18.2	9.2-33.0	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	92	45	48.3	32.9-64.0	21	15.9	8.3-28.2	12	14.3	6.4-29.0	7	15.5	5.4-37.2	7	6.1	2.4-14.7
H.S. or G.E.D.	389	220	57.9	50.4-65.2	105	22.8	17.1-29.6	38	10.0	6.1-15.9	13	3.6	1.8- 6.8	13	5.8	2.9-11.1
Some Post-H.S.	545	291	49.8	43.3-56.3	185	36.2	30.1-42.8	38	8.4	4.9-14.1	19	3.6	1.8- 7.0	12	2.0	0.9- 4.2
College Graduate	851	547	62.9	58.1-67.5	232	26.8	22.7-31.4	56	6.9	4.8- 9.7	10	2.4	1.1- 5.3	6	1.0	0.4- 2.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	128	54	40.3	28.7-53.0	39	34.7	23.4-48.1	20	13.7	7.0-25.0	7	5.3	2.2-12.5	8	6.0	2.5-13.5
$15,000- 24,999	260	126	49.3	39.7-58.9	80	25.6	18.6-34.1	30	13.5	8.1-21.8	11	4.8	2.2-10.0	13	6.8	3.3-13.7
$25,000- 34,999	210	117	55.4	44.9-65.5	62	28.9	20.5-39.1	19	6.1	3.4-10.8	6	4.2	0.9-17.6	6	5.3	1.9-14.3
$35,000- 49,999	283	161	54.0	45.2-62.5	88	25.0	18.5-32.8	25	11.8	6.9-19.4	8	9.0	4.3-17.9	1	0.2	0.0- 1.2
$50,000-74,999	253	133	47.5	39.0-56.2	94	40.5	32.2-49.5	16	7.6	4.2-13.5	7	2.7	0.8- 8.4	3	1.6	0.4- 6.2
$75,000+	401	272	67.2	60.6-73.2	109	27.0	21.5-33.5	13	3.5	1.8- 6.6	5	1.6	0.5- 4.7	2	0.7	0.2- 2.9
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	114	61	49.4	38.7-60.1	42	36.0	26.5-46.7	9	13.0	5.7-27.0	1	0.8	0.1- 5.8	1	0.8	0.1- 5.5
Guilford	122	81	58.5	47.1-69.0	27	19.9	13.3-28.7	6	7.8	2.9-19.3	3	4.8	1.1-18.5	5	9.0	3.4-21.7
Mecklenburg	130	76	60.4	50.9-69.2	36	25.1	18.0-33.8	13	10.7	5.9-18.7	4	3.1	1.0- 9.1	1	0.7	0.1- 5.0
Orange	179	111	49.4	38.1-60.9	47	26.0	17.9-36.1	12	9.9	5.1-18.4	4	10.5	2.7-33.0	5	4.2	1.5-11.2
Wake	136	80	58.0	48.6-66.8	41	31.2	23.3-40.4	10	7.0	3.4-14.0	3	2.0	0.6- 6.4	2	1.8	0.4- 6.9
Chatham/Lee	92	54	56.4	45.0-67.1	25	27.1	18.4-37.9	9	12.0	5.9-22.7	4	4.6	1.7-11.9	0	0.0	. - .
Nash/Wilson	52	30	54.4	39.5-68.6	18	39.8	26.1-55.3	3	3.8	1.2-11.5	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.0	0.3-12.8
Craven/Pamlico	101	57	49.6	39.0-60.2	33	38.5	28.3-49.9	8	9.5	4.5-19.2	2	1.3	0.3- 5.4	1	1.1	0.2- 7.3
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	50	32	65.9	50.9-78.3	10	17.2	9.0-30.2	5	12.2	5.1-26.4	1	1.6	0.2-10.5	2	3.2	0.8-12.0
Appalachian/Wilkes	78	42	57.9	44.2-70.4	27	28.8	18.7-41.5	5	5.7	2.2-13.6	3	4.7	1.2-16.7	1	3.0	0.4-18.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance	74	45	63.7	50.3-75.3	21	22.0	13.7-33.4	7	13.0	6.0-25.9	1	1.3	0.2- 8.7	0	0.0	. - .
Graham/Swain/Jackson	70	37	47.4	34.5-60.7	23	30.3	19.8-43.4	7	12.0	5.7-23.4	1	1.9	0.3-12.2	2	8.4	2.2-27.7
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	51	23	40.5	26.9-55.8	23	48.7	33.7-64.0	1	4.3	0.6-24.5	2	4.4	1.1-16.2	2	2.1	0.5- 8.4
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	45	24	52.6	35.1-69.5	9	15.9	7.6-30.4	6	12.7	5.3-27.3	4	9.2	3.1-24.2	2	9.7	2.0-36.5
Northeast NC I	64	37	55.4	41.6-68.4	20	27.1	17.2-40.0	5	12.1	4.8-27.0	0	0.0	. - .	2	5.4	1.3-19.7
Northeast NC II	94	54	55.9	44.3-66.9	23	21.9	14.3-32.0	12	16.2	8.8-27.9	1	0.7	0.1- 4.7	4	5.3	1.7-15.7
Northeastern Partnership	158	91	55.7	46.7-64.4	43	23.6	17.2-31.4	17	14.9	9.0-23.6	1	0.5	0.1- 3.2	6	5.4	2.2-12.6
Mountain AHEC	262	149	56.6	48.6-64.2	90	34.9	27.8-42.7	18	7.1	3.7-13.4	2	0.5	0.1- 2.1	3	0.9	0.3- 2.9
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	533	299	52.6	45.6-59.4	159	30.3	24.4-37.0	41	7.8	4.2-13.9	18	5.6	2.9-10.7	16	3.7	1.9- 7.2
Piedmont	961	590	59.5	55.0-63.8	255	26.2	22.4-30.3	74	8.6	6.3-11.6	25	3.3	1.9- 5.8	17	2.4	1.4- 4.3
Western NC	384	215	54.5	47.0-61.8	129	34.1	27.1-41.7	29	8.7	5.0-14.6	6	1.6	0.6- 4.2	5	1.2	0.5- 3.0

Total
Respond.^

Only one

Two

Three

Four

Five or more

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

1,878

1,104

57.1

53.6-60.4

543

28.2

25.2-31.4

144

8.4

6.5-10.7

3.7

2.5- 5.5

2.6

1.7- 4.0

RACE

White

1,576

931

56.3

52.5-59.9

466

29.6

26.3-33.2

116

8.6

6.5-11.2

3.3

2.1- 5.2

2.2

1.3- 3.7

African American

230

136

58.8

49.3-67.7

25.4

18.0-34.5

6.6

3.6-11.9

4.1

1.7-10.0

5.1

2.2-11.4

Asian

100

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Native American

21.8

7.0-50.6

25.0

9.5-51.4

43.8

13.1-80.1

7.5

1.7-27.0

2.0

0.2-14.0

Other Minorities

73.7

47.3-89.7

7.0

2.5-17.8

4.2

0.9-18.0

12.0

1.8-50.6

3.2

0.4-20.0

HISPANIC

Hispanic

71.6

45.9-88.3

12.0

5.1-25.9

4.2

1.2-13.6

12.2

1.8-51.2

0.0

. - .

-English Speaking

73.1

49.4-88.4

21.4

8.7-43.8

5.4

1.2-21.6

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

-Spanish Speaking

69.7

23.4-94.5

0.0

. - .

2.5

0.3-18.0

27.8

4.3-76.7

0.0

. - .

Non-Hispanic

1,840

1,084

56.6

53.2-60.0

529

28.7

25.7-32.0

141

8.5

6.6-10.9

3.4

2.3- 5.1

2.7

1.8- 4.1

AGE

18-24

146

41.9

30.8-53.9

26.8

17.2-39.1

19.3

11.1-31.4

5.6

2.2-13.8

6.4

3.1-12.8

25-34

348

162

45.4

38.0-53.0

125

36.5

29.5-44.1

9.7

6.0-15.4

5.8

2.6-12.4

2.6

1.2- 5.4

35-44

447

250

56.0

49.6-62.3

127

26.7

21.3-32.8

9.7

6.6-14.1

4.6

2.5- 8.3

3.0

1.2- 7.2

45-54

426

245

60.8

54.0-67.2

145

29.8

24.2-36.2

4.7

2.9- 7.6

2.8

1.0- 7.3

1.8

0.5- 6.0

55-64

245

182

74.0

64.9-81.4

22.8

15.7-32.0

2.8

1.2- 6.4

0.1

0.0- 1.0

0.3

0.0- 2.0

65-74

154

114

80.9

71.3-87.9

18.2

11.3-27.9

0.5

0.1- 2.1

0.0

. - .

0.4

0.1- 2.7

75+

81.8

67.0-90.8

18.2

9.2-33.0

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

48.3

32.9-64.0

15.9

8.3-28.2

14.3

6.4-29.0

15.5

5.4-37.2

6.1

2.4-14.7

H.S. or G.E.D.

389

220

57.9

50.4-65.2

105

22.8

17.1-29.6

10.0

6.1-15.9

3.6

1.8- 6.8

5.8

2.9-11.1

Some Post-H.S.

545

291

49.8

43.3-56.3

185

36.2

30.1-42.8

8.4

4.9-14.1

3.6

1.8- 7.0

2.0

0.9- 4.2

College Graduate

851

547

62.9

58.1-67.5

232

26.8

22.7-31.4

6.9

4.8- 9.7

2.4

1.1- 5.3

1.0

0.4- 2.7

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

128

40.3

28.7-53.0

34.7

23.4-48.1

13.7

7.0-25.0

5.3

2.2-12.5

6.0

2.5-13.5

$15,000- 24,999

260

126

49.3

39.7-58.9

25.6

18.6-34.1

13.5

8.1-21.8

4.8

2.2-10.0

6.8

3.3-13.7

$25,000- 34,999

210

117

55.4

44.9-65.5

28.9

20.5-39.1

6.1

3.4-10.8

4.2

0.9-17.6

5.3

1.9-14.3

$35,000- 49,999

283

161

54.0

45.2-62.5

25.0

18.5-32.8

11.8

6.9-19.4

9.0

4.3-17.9

0.2

0.0- 1.2

$50,000-74,999

253

133

47.5

39.0-56.2

40.5

32.2-49.5

7.6

4.2-13.5

2.7

0.8- 8.4

1.6

0.4- 6.2

$75,000+

401

272

67.2

60.6-73.2

109

27.0

21.5-33.5

3.5

1.8- 6.6

1.6

0.5- 4.7

0.7

0.2- 2.9

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

114

49.4

38.7-60.1

36.0

26.5-46.7

13.0

5.7-27.0

0.8

0.1- 5.8

0.8

0.1- 5.5

Guilford

122

58.5

47.1-69.0

19.9

13.3-28.7

7.8

2.9-19.3

4.8

1.1-18.5

9.0

3.4-21.7

Mecklenburg

130

60.4

50.9-69.2

25.1

18.0-33.8

10.7

5.9-18.7

3.1

1.0- 9.1

0.7

0.1- 5.0

Orange

179

111

49.4

38.1-60.9

26.0

17.9-36.1

9.9

5.1-18.4

10.5

2.7-33.0

4.2

1.5-11.2

Wake

136

58.0

48.6-66.8

31.2

23.3-40.4

7.0

3.4-14.0

2.0

0.6- 6.4

1.8

0.4- 6.9

Chatham/Lee

56.4

45.0-67.1

27.1

18.4-37.9

12.0

5.9-22.7

4.6

1.7-11.9

0.0

. - .

Nash/Wilson

54.4

39.5-68.6

39.8

26.1-55.3

3.8

1.2-11.5

0.0

. - .

2.0

0.3-12.8

Craven/Pamlico

101

49.6

39.0-60.2

38.5

28.3-49.9

9.5

4.5-19.2

1.3

0.3- 5.4

1.1

0.2- 7.3

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

65.9

50.9-78.3

17.2

9.0-30.2

12.2

5.1-26.4

1.6

0.2-10.5

3.2

0.8-12.0

Appalachian/Wilkes

57.9

44.2-70.4

28.8

18.7-41.5

5.7

2.2-13.6

4.7

1.2-16.7

3.0

0.4-18.6

Franklin/Gran./Vance

63.7

50.3-75.3

22.0

13.7-33.4

13.0

6.0-25.9

1.3

0.2- 8.7

0.0

. - .

Graham/Swain/Jackson

47.4

34.5-60.7

30.3

19.8-43.4

12.0

5.7-23.4

1.9

0.3-12.2

8.4

2.2-27.7

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

40.5

26.9-55.8

48.7

33.7-64.0

4.3

0.6-24.5

4.4

1.1-16.2

2.1

0.5- 8.4

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

52.6

35.1-69.5

15.9

7.6-30.4

12.7

5.3-27.3

9.2

3.1-24.2

9.7

2.0-36.5

Northeast NC I

55.4

41.6-68.4

27.1

17.2-40.0

12.1

4.8-27.0

0.0

. - .

5.4

1.3-19.7

Northeast NC II

55.9

44.3-66.9

21.9

14.3-32.0

16.2

8.8-27.9

0.7

0.1- 4.7

5.3

1.7-15.7

Northeastern Partnership

158

55.7

46.7-64.4

23.6

17.2-31.4

14.9

9.0-23.6

0.5

0.1- 3.2

5.4

2.2-12.6

Mountain AHEC

262

149

56.6

48.6-64.2

34.9

27.8-42.7

7.1

3.7-13.4

0.5

0.1- 2.1

0.9

0.3- 2.9

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

533

299

52.6

45.6-59.4

159

30.3

24.4-37.0

7.8

4.2-13.9

5.6

2.9-10.7

3.7

1.9- 7.2

Piedmont

961

590

59.5

55.0-63.8

255

26.2

22.4-30.3

8.6

6.3-11.6

3.3

1.9- 5.8

2.4

1.4- 4.3

Western NC

384

215

54.5

47.0-61.8

129

34.1

27.1-41.7

8.7

5.0-14.6

1.6

0.6- 4.2

1.2

0.5- 3.0

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* This question was asked only of respondents who reported drinking at least one drink in the last month.

^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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