BRFSS 2003 - North Carolina: (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?)

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-MALES

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
TOTAL	3,405	2,407	71.5	69.0-73.9	287	9.4	7.9-11.3	240	8.4	6.9-10.2	208	5.3	4.3- 6.4	263	5.4	4.5- 6.5
RACE
White	2,534	1,809	71.6	68.7-74.3	214	9.3	7.5-11.5	174	8.3	6.6-10.3	151	5.3	4.2- 6.8	186	5.5	4.4- 6.8
African American	589	404	73.2	67.6-78.1	44	8.9	6.0-13.1	36	4.4	2.5- 7.4	45	6.8	4.4-10.4	60	6.7	4.5-10.0
Asian	26	21	84.0	53.2-96.0	3	12.9	2.4-47.4	1	1.5	0.2-10.7	1	1.6	0.2-10.9	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	77	47	70.3	52.9-83.2	8	7.1	2.4-18.7	6	7.3	1.8-24.9	6	6.0	2.2-15.1	10	9.4	4.0-20.5
Other Minorities	161	113	64.3	52.1-74.8	17	11.7	5.8-22.0	19	20.1	11.7-32.4	5	2.0	0.5- 7.5	7	2.0	0.7- 5.3
HISPANIC
Hispanic	166	117	63.2	51.3-73.7	16	10.9	5.3-20.9	22	22.1	13.5-34.2	5	2.9	0.8- 9.5	6	0.9	0.4- 2.1
-English Speaking	51	37	56.3	33.3-76.9	5	17.6	4.3-50.5	3	12.4	3.3-36.7	3	11.9	3.1-36.3	3	1.8	0.5- 6.0
-Spanish Speaking	115	80	65.2	51.4-76.8	11	9.0	4.1-18.6	19	24.9	14.6-39.1	2	0.3	0.1- 1.5	3	0.7	0.2- 2.1
Non-Hispanic	3,236	2,287	72.2	69.7-74.6	271	9.3	7.8-11.2	218	7.2	5.9- 8.9	203	5.5	4.4- 6.7	257	5.8	4.8- 7.0
AGE
18-24	216	150	67.0	56.8-75.8	33	16.5	10.1-25.7	21	12.8	7.0-22.1	9	3.3	1.5- 7.1	3	0.5	0.1- 1.6
25-34	528	395	75.3	69.5-80.3	61	9.9	6.9-14.0	48	10.8	7.4-15.6	18	3.1	1.6- 6.2	6	0.9	0.3- 2.4
35-44	682	502	75.0	70.1-79.4	72	10.9	7.9-14.8	38	7.1	4.6-10.7	37	3.7	2.3- 6.0	33	3.3	2.0- 5.4
45-54	675	466	69.9	64.3-75.0	51	7.0	4.7-10.2	53	6.9	4.6-10.3	46	7.5	4.7-12.0	59	8.7	5.8-12.7
55-64	570	385	69.7	64.1-74.7	40	6.5	4.1-10.0	33	5.4	3.3- 8.6	44	8.9	6.1-12.8	68	9.6	6.7-13.5
65-74	449	319	70.0	63.7-75.7	19	6.2	3.5-10.6	27	5.1	3.0- 8.8	28	5.2	3.2- 8.5	56	13.4	9.5-18.6
75+	264	173	66.5	58.1-73.9	9	3.6	1.6- 8.0	20	11.0	6.4-18.4	26	8.3	4.9-13.6	36	10.6	6.6-16.6
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	582	376	67.0	60.4-73.0	26	5.8	3.1-10.6	36	9.5	5.9-15.0	49	7.0	4.5-10.8	95	10.8	7.9-14.5
H.S. or G.E.D.	1,010	711	71.8	67.2-76.0	76	9.3	6.6-13.0	76	8.1	5.7-11.4	64	5.3	3.7- 7.5	83	5.5	3.9- 7.6
Some Post-H.S.	800	562	70.1	64.5-75.2	71	9.5	6.3-14.1	61	10.2	6.9-15.0	56	5.5	3.9- 7.9	50	4.6	3.0- 7.0
College Graduate	1,003	753	75.4	71.3-79.1	114	11.8	9.3-14.9	67	6.5	4.6- 9.1	39	4.0	2.3- 6.7	30	2.3	1.4- 3.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	284	137	58.1	47.8-67.6	16	8.6	3.6-19.4	22	8.9	4.1-18.2	36	9.6	5.6-16.1	73	14.8	10.5-20.5
$15,000- 24,999	593	386	65.3	58.9-71.2	43	7.8	4.9-12.1	54	12.1	8.1-17.6	57	6.6	4.5- 9.7	53	8.2	5.5-12.1
$25,000- 34,999	358	257	73.1	65.4-79.6	25	6.0	3.2-10.9	28	9.3	5.3-15.6	23	4.5	2.4- 8.1	25	7.2	4.1-12.5
$35,000- 49,999	520	391	74.8	69.0-79.9	48	8.6	5.7-12.9	39	8.0	5.3-11.9	23	5.4	3.2- 9.1	19	3.2	1.5- 6.6
$50,000-74,999	434	332	76.7	69.9-82.4	47	12.6	8.0-19.2	26	5.9	3.5- 9.7	17	2.6	1.3- 5.2	12	2.2	1.0- 4.6
$75,000+	502	396	78.5	72.6-83.4	51	9.4	6.6-13.2	28	5.7	3.1-10.3	13	3.6	1.5- 8.5	14	2.7	1.4- 5.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	176	115	61.7	52.6-70.1	18	14.1	8.4-22.9	10	7.4	3.8-14.1	12	6.7	3.2-13.8	21	10.0	6.2-15.7
Guilford	163	124	76.5	68.4-83.1	11	6.4	3.3-11.9	13	7.6	4.3-13.2	7	4.1	1.8- 8.7	8	5.5	2.4-12.0
Mecklenburg	167	124	69.4	58.6-78.4	20	17.6	9.9-29.2	12	8.0	4.2-14.9	8	4.0	1.8- 8.6	3	1.1	0.3- 3.6
Orange	170	118	62.1	49.4-73.4	27	18.8	12.3-27.7	10	12.8	4.1-33.7	10	4.6	2.3- 8.7	5	1.7	0.6- 4.8
Wake	174	137	79.8	71.6-86.1	15	5.6	3.1- 9.7	12	8.3	4.0-16.6	5	3.3	1.3- 7.8	5	3.0	1.1- 7.7
Chatham/Lee	149	115	81.7	73.9-87.6	12	7.8	4.1-14.3	8	3.1	1.4- 6.4	8	4.2	1.9- 9.0	6	3.2	1.3- 7.9
Nash/Wilson	137	98	72.4	62.1-80.8	10	6.6	3.3-12.7	10	6.3	3.0-13.1	9	8.5	3.2-20.4	10	6.1	3.2-11.4
Craven/Pamlico	162	118	74.1	65.2-81.3	9	7.2	3.0-16.2	15	8.8	5.1-14.8	8	4.5	2.2- 9.2	12	5.4	2.9- 9.6
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	160	110	70.5	61.7-77.9	13	7.9	4.5-13.6	13	8.2	4.6-14.1	7	4.9	2.2-10.4	17	8.6	5.0-14.2
Appalachian/Wilkes	166	123	76.2	67.7-83.0	12	8.7	4.6-15.7	6	2.4	0.9- 5.8	10	5.8	2.9-11.4	15	7.0	4.0-11.9
Franklin/Gran./Vance	175	120	68.6	56.3-78.8	14	10.2	5.0-19.5	15	12.5	6.5-22.9	9	3.6	1.7- 7.5	17	5.0	2.8- 8.7
Graham/Swain/Jackson	159	104	61.5	40.6-78.8	16	21.2	6.4-51.4	20	9.6	5.3-16.8	9	4.0	1.8- 8.6	10	3.7	1.8- 7.6
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	171	114	67.9	59.3-75.5	6	2.7	1.1- 6.3	13	6.9	3.4-13.8	17	9.3	5.3-15.7	21	13.1	8.4-20.0
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	123	79	64.4	52.0-75.1	12	14.2	6.0-30.1	5	4.3	1.6-10.8	10	7.2	3.8-13.4	17	9.9	5.6-16.8
Northeast NC I	139	91	57.3	43.8-69.8	12	17.8	6.9-38.7	6	7.1	3.0-16.0	11	6.3	3.3-11.6	19	11.6	6.8-19.1
Northeast NC II	183	126	67.4	58.7-75.1	17	12.3	7.1-20.4	8	4.1	1.7- 9.3	17	7.8	4.4-13.4	15	8.4	4.8-14.4
Northeastern Partnership	322	217	64.2	56.7-71.1	29	14.0	8.5-22.2	14	5.0	2.7- 9.1	28	7.3	4.7-11.3	34	9.4	6.3-13.8
Mountain AHEC	482	319	67.1	60.2-73.3	41	9.8	6.1-15.5	41	8.5	5.4-13.1	30	5.5	3.4- 8.7	51	9.2	6.4-13.0
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	1,134	778	66.9	61.8-71.5	86	10.5	7.4-14.5	74	8.5	5.6-12.8	85	7.0	4.9- 9.9	111	7.1	5.4- 9.3
Piedmont	1,507	1,106	74.5	71.1-77.5	143	9.4	7.4-11.9	112	8.7	6.8-11.1	75	4.3	3.2- 5.8	71	3.2	2.3- 4.4
Western NC	764	523	68.9	63.3-74.1	58	7.6	5.1-11.2	54	7.3	4.8-10.9	48	5.5	3.8- 8.0	81	10.7	7.4-15.3

Total
Respond.^

None

1-2 days

3-7 days

8-29 days

30 days

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

3,405

2,407

71.5

69.0-73.9

287

9.4

7.9-11.3

240

8.4

6.9-10.2

208

5.3

4.3- 6.4

263

5.4

4.5- 6.5

RACE

White

2,534

1,809

71.6

68.7-74.3

214

9.3

7.5-11.5

174

8.3

6.6-10.3

151

5.3

4.2- 6.8

186

5.5

4.4- 6.8

African American

589

404

73.2

67.6-78.1

8.9

6.0-13.1

4.4

2.5- 7.4

6.8

4.4-10.4

6.7

4.5-10.0

Asian

84.0

53.2-96.0

12.9

2.4-47.4

1.5

0.2-10.7

1.6

0.2-10.9

0.0

. - .

Native American

70.3

52.9-83.2

7.1

2.4-18.7

7.3

1.8-24.9

6.0

2.2-15.1

9.4

4.0-20.5

Other Minorities

161

113

64.3

52.1-74.8

11.7

5.8-22.0

20.1

11.7-32.4

2.0

0.5- 7.5

2.0

0.7- 5.3

HISPANIC

Hispanic

166

117

63.2

51.3-73.7

10.9

5.3-20.9

22.1

13.5-34.2

2.9

0.8- 9.5

0.9

0.4- 2.1

-English Speaking

56.3

33.3-76.9

17.6

4.3-50.5

12.4

3.3-36.7

11.9

3.1-36.3

1.8

0.5- 6.0

-Spanish Speaking

115

65.2

51.4-76.8

9.0

4.1-18.6

24.9

14.6-39.1

0.3

0.1- 1.5

0.7

0.2- 2.1

Non-Hispanic

3,236

2,287

72.2

69.7-74.6

271

9.3

7.8-11.2

218

7.2

5.9- 8.9

203

5.5

4.4- 6.7

257

5.8

4.8- 7.0

AGE

18-24

216

150

67.0

56.8-75.8

16.5

10.1-25.7

12.8

7.0-22.1

3.3

1.5- 7.1

0.5

0.1- 1.6

25-34

528

395

75.3

69.5-80.3

9.9

6.9-14.0

10.8

7.4-15.6

3.1

1.6- 6.2

0.9

0.3- 2.4

35-44

682

502

75.0

70.1-79.4

10.9

7.9-14.8

7.1

4.6-10.7

3.7

2.3- 6.0

3.3

2.0- 5.4

45-54

675

466

69.9

64.3-75.0

7.0

4.7-10.2

6.9

4.6-10.3

7.5

4.7-12.0

8.7

5.8-12.7

55-64

570

385

69.7

64.1-74.7

6.5

4.1-10.0

5.4

3.3- 8.6

8.9

6.1-12.8

9.6

6.7-13.5

65-74

449

319

70.0

63.7-75.7

6.2

3.5-10.6

5.1

3.0- 8.8

5.2

3.2- 8.5

13.4

9.5-18.6

75+

264

173

66.5

58.1-73.9

3.6

1.6- 8.0

11.0

6.4-18.4

8.3

4.9-13.6

10.6

6.6-16.6

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

582

376

67.0

60.4-73.0

5.8

3.1-10.6

9.5

5.9-15.0

7.0

4.5-10.8

10.8

7.9-14.5

H.S. or G.E.D.

1,010

711

71.8

67.2-76.0

9.3

6.6-13.0

8.1

5.7-11.4

5.3

3.7- 7.5

5.5

3.9- 7.6

Some Post-H.S.

800

562

70.1

64.5-75.2

9.5

6.3-14.1

10.2

6.9-15.0

5.5

3.9- 7.9

4.6

3.0- 7.0

College Graduate

1,003

753

75.4

71.3-79.1

114

11.8

9.3-14.9

6.5

4.6- 9.1

4.0

2.3- 6.7

2.3

1.4- 3.8

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

284

137

58.1

47.8-67.6

8.6

3.6-19.4

8.9

4.1-18.2

9.6

5.6-16.1

14.8

10.5-20.5

$15,000- 24,999

593

386

65.3

58.9-71.2

7.8

4.9-12.1

12.1

8.1-17.6

6.6

4.5- 9.7

8.2

5.5-12.1

$25,000- 34,999

358

257

73.1

65.4-79.6

6.0

3.2-10.9

9.3

5.3-15.6

4.5

2.4- 8.1

7.2

4.1-12.5

$35,000- 49,999

520

391

74.8

69.0-79.9

8.6

5.7-12.9

8.0

5.3-11.9

5.4

3.2- 9.1

3.2

1.5- 6.6

$50,000-74,999

434

332

76.7

69.9-82.4

12.6

8.0-19.2

5.9

3.5- 9.7

2.6

1.3- 5.2

2.2

1.0- 4.6

$75,000+

502

396

78.5

72.6-83.4

9.4

6.6-13.2

5.7

3.1-10.3

3.6

1.5- 8.5

2.7

1.4- 5.3

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

176

115

61.7

52.6-70.1

14.1

8.4-22.9

7.4

3.8-14.1

6.7

3.2-13.8

10.0

6.2-15.7

Guilford

163

124

76.5

68.4-83.1

6.4

3.3-11.9

7.6

4.3-13.2

4.1

1.8- 8.7

5.5

2.4-12.0

Mecklenburg

167

124

69.4

58.6-78.4

17.6

9.9-29.2

8.0

4.2-14.9

4.0

1.8- 8.6

1.1

0.3- 3.6

Orange

170

118

62.1

49.4-73.4

18.8

12.3-27.7

12.8

4.1-33.7

4.6

2.3- 8.7

1.7

0.6- 4.8

Wake

174

137

79.8

71.6-86.1

5.6

3.1- 9.7

8.3

4.0-16.6

3.3

1.3- 7.8

3.0

1.1- 7.7

Chatham/Lee

149

115

81.7

73.9-87.6

7.8

4.1-14.3

3.1

1.4- 6.4

4.2

1.9- 9.0

3.2

1.3- 7.9

Nash/Wilson

137

72.4

62.1-80.8

6.6

3.3-12.7

6.3

3.0-13.1

8.5

3.2-20.4

6.1

3.2-11.4

Craven/Pamlico

162

118

74.1

65.2-81.3

7.2

3.0-16.2

8.8

5.1-14.8

4.5

2.2- 9.2

5.4

2.9- 9.6

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

160

110

70.5

61.7-77.9

7.9

4.5-13.6

8.2

4.6-14.1

4.9

2.2-10.4

8.6

5.0-14.2

Appalachian/Wilkes

166

123

76.2

67.7-83.0

8.7

4.6-15.7

2.4

0.9- 5.8

5.8

2.9-11.4

7.0

4.0-11.9

Franklin/Gran./Vance

175

120

68.6

56.3-78.8

10.2

5.0-19.5

12.5

6.5-22.9

3.6

1.7- 7.5

5.0

2.8- 8.7

Graham/Swain/Jackson

159

104

61.5

40.6-78.8

21.2

6.4-51.4

9.6

5.3-16.8

4.0

1.8- 8.6

3.7

1.8- 7.6

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

171

114

67.9

59.3-75.5

2.7

1.1- 6.3

6.9

3.4-13.8

9.3

5.3-15.7

13.1

8.4-20.0

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

123

64.4

52.0-75.1

14.2

6.0-30.1

4.3

1.6-10.8

7.2

3.8-13.4

9.9

5.6-16.8

Northeast NC I

139

57.3

43.8-69.8

17.8

6.9-38.7

7.1

3.0-16.0

6.3

3.3-11.6

11.6

6.8-19.1

Northeast NC II

183

126

67.4

58.7-75.1

12.3

7.1-20.4

4.1

1.7- 9.3

7.8

4.4-13.4

8.4

4.8-14.4

Northeastern Partnership

322

217

64.2

56.7-71.1

14.0

8.5-22.2

5.0

2.7- 9.1

7.3

4.7-11.3

9.4

6.3-13.8

Mountain AHEC

482

319

67.1

60.2-73.3

9.8

6.1-15.5

8.5

5.4-13.1

5.5

3.4- 8.7

9.2

6.4-13.0

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

1,134

778

66.9

61.8-71.5

10.5

7.4-14.5

8.5

5.6-12.8

7.0

4.9- 9.9

111

7.1

5.4- 9.3

Piedmont

1,507

1,106

74.5

71.1-77.5

143

9.4

7.4-11.9

112

8.7

6.8-11.1

4.3

3.2- 5.8

3.2

2.3- 4.4

Western NC

764

523

68.9

63.3-74.1

7.6

5.1-11.2

7.3

4.8-10.9

5.5

3.8- 8.0

10.7

7.4-15.3

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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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