BRFSS 2003 - North Carolina: (How many days per week do you do these vigorous activities for at least 10 minutes at a time?*)

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Physical Activity-MALES

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	Total Respond.^	1 day	2 days	3-4 days	5-6 days	Everyday
TOTAL	1,278	256	17.8	14.7-21.3	289	23.2	19.7-27.1	449	38.5	34.3-42.8	175	12.9	10.2-16.2	109	7.7	5.7-10.2
RACE
White	1,000	193	18.1	14.6-22.3	228	23.2	19.3-27.5	347	37.2	32.5-42.1	137	13.4	10.3-17.2	95	8.2	6.0-11.1
African American	202	44	15.2	9.8-23.0	43	18.9	12.4-27.6	73	46.9	36.6-57.5	29	10.5	6.2-17.3	13	8.5	3.8-17.9
Asian	10	3	47.3	13.3-84.0	2	29.4	4.9-77.1	4	22.0	5.5-57.8	1	1.3	0.2-10.2	0	0.0	. - .
Native American	23	7	10.6	3.2-29.6	8	59.1	22.4-87.9	7	29.3	8.1-66.2	1	1.0	0.1- 8.0	0	0.0	. - .
Other Minorities	35	8	14.0	4.5-36.2	7	30.3	11.4-59.4	14	35.5	16.6-60.3	5	19.7	5.4-51.6	1	0.4	0.1- 3.2
HISPANIC
Hispanic	44	10	17.8	6.8-39.4	9	26.4	9.3-55.7	21	42.0	21.6-65.4	3	13.4	2.3-50.7	1	0.4	0.1- 3.1
-English Speaking	23	5	15.9	3.8-47.6	4	35.7	7.7-78.7	12	46.4	16.3-79.5	1	0.9	0.1- 6.8	1	1.1	0.1- 8.2
-Spanish Speaking	21	5	19.1	5.2-50.5	5	20.4	5.1-54.7	9	39.1	15.1-69.8	2	21.4	3.6-66.4	0	0.0	. - .
Non-Hispanic	1,232	246	17.8	14.7-21.4	280	23.1	19.6-27.0	427	38.2	34.0-42.7	171	12.8	10.2-16.1	108	8.0	6.0-10.7
AGE
18-24	142	23	14.1	7.5-24.9	26	21.2	12.8-33.1	61	41.7	30.3-54.0	18	15.9	8.5-27.9	14	7.1	3.3-14.6
25-34	264	44	15.6	10.6-22.4	58	18.5	12.9-25.9	98	40.9	32.7-49.6	46	17.3	11.8-24.5	18	7.7	3.7-15.3
35-44	319	61	17.1	12.0-24.0	76	26.0	19.9-33.3	121	41.4	34.1-49.1	34	7.5	4.9-11.5	27	7.9	4.9-12.5
45-54	234	49	21.7	14.2-31.8	61	30.4	21.8-40.7	79	31.4	23.2-41.0	28	8.6	5.0-14.3	17	7.8	3.7-15.8
55-64	164	41	20.5	13.8-29.5	34	21.9	14.2-32.2	48	33.2	23.6-44.4	21	15.5	8.8-26.0	20	8.8	4.8-15.7
65-74	106	32	32.6	20.8-47.0	21	19.2	10.8-32.0	25	25.1	15.3-38.4	19	16.5	9.1-28.2	9	6.6	2.6-15.4
75+	42	5	20.0	7.2-44.7	12	20.7	10.3-37.2	14	37.7	20.8-58.1	7	13.3	4.9-31.2	4	8.3	1.5-34.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	95	27	24.7	13.9-40.0	33	35.7	21.9-52.2	20	29.1	16.7-45.7	8	5.9	2.1-15.7	7	4.6	1.4-14.1
H.S. or G.E.D.	361	78	18.5	13.4-24.9	79	20.0	14.4-27.0	126	42.1	34.1-50.5	43	12.7	7.7-20.2	35	6.8	4.3-10.6
Some Post-H.S.	326	61	15.4	9.9-23.3	76	25.9	18.7-34.7	116	35.2	27.1-44.3	47	14.2	8.9-21.8	26	9.2	5.1-16.1
College Graduate	494	89	18.0	13.4-23.7	101	21.3	16.6-27.0	186	39.8	33.8-46.1	77	13.3	9.8-17.7	41	7.6	4.9-11.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	59	18	30.9	16.3-50.6	11	24.6	8.3-54.0	18	29.9	15.5-49.7	6	6.5	2.5-15.9	6	8.2	2.5-24.1
$15,000- 24,999	181	36	14.6	8.5-23.9	42	21.4	13.6-31.9	66	37.7	26.9-50.0	20	16.8	9.0-29.2	17	9.6	4.2-20.3
$25,000- 34,999	144	30	15.7	9.3-25.3	36	31.7	20.6-45.3	46	39.5	28.3-52.0	21	10.1	5.3-18.4	11	3.0	1.4- 6.4
$35,000- 49,999	237	48	15.9	10.6-23.0	63	33.6	24.5-44.1	77	35.0	26.7-44.3	29	9.6	5.8-15.6	20	5.9	3.4-10.1
$50,000-74,999	211	43	17.8	11.6-26.3	48	28.0	19.1-39.1	75	38.3	28.4-49.3	30	11.2	6.7-18.2	15	4.6	2.1- 9.6
$75,000+	271	47	18.2	12.3-26.3	54	19.1	13.4-26.4	104	37.6	29.9-46.0	46	16.5	10.7-24.4	20	8.6	4.9-14.6
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	73	11	13.7	6.8-25.6	21	25.3	16.2-37.3	22	34.9	22.7-49.4	10	12.2	6.4-22.2	9	13.9	6.7-26.7
Guilford	73	8	6.5	3.1-13.2	18	29.3	17.8-44.2	33	42.8	30.3-56.4	9	10.6	5.2-20.3	5	10.8	4.0-26.2
Mecklenburg	65	9	12.2	5.9-23.4	12	15.6	8.1-27.7	29	41.3	26.4-58.0	12	28.3	14.0-49.1	3	2.6	0.8- 8.5
Orange	77	13	19.0	10.4-32.1	16	18.8	11.0-30.2	23	28.3	18.3-41.1	20	26.2	16.7-38.6	5	7.6	3.0-18.1
Wake	78	18	23.4	13.7-36.9	14	19.2	11.2-30.7	35	43.8	31.4-57.1	7	9.5	3.7-22.3	4	4.1	1.3-12.6
Chatham/Lee	46	8	18.3	8.6-34.8	16	31.2	18.2-48.1	11	17.7	9.2-31.4	3	16.3	4.3-45.9	8	16.5	7.6-32.2
Nash/Wilson	41	13	27.8	15.5-44.6	7	20.1	9.6-37.2	13	32.5	18.6-50.4	4	10.8	3.7-27.7	4	8.9	3.2-22.5
Craven/Pamlico	57	15	19.0	10.8-31.3	8	16.9	7.9-32.6	24	46.9	31.8-62.6	5	11.6	4.4-27.4	5	5.5	2.1-13.5
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	54	13	26.7	15.8-41.5	13	22.3	13.0-35.4	16	32.7	20.8-47.3	6	8.8	3.7-19.3	6	9.6	4.0-20.9
Appalachian/Wilkes	62	13	17.8	9.5-30.9	21	27.5	17.2-41.0	18	41.4	27.1-57.4	7	10.4	4.7-21.6	3	2.8	0.8- 9.3
Franklin/Gran./Vance	62	13	15.8	6.8-32.7	15	27.1	12.7-48.7	21	44.7	19.9-72.4	9	7.3	3.0-16.4	4	5.2	1.5-16.5
Graham/Swain/Jackson	71	12	14.8	8.1-25.5	9	8.1	4.0-15.7	27	46.8	32.8-61.4	15	20.7	12.1-33.2	8	9.5	4.0-21.1
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	47	11	24.8	12.8-42.4	13	22.2	12.1-37.0	16	37.1	22.7-54.3	5	7.9	3.1-18.5	2	8.1	1.8-30.0
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	32	8	21.5	10.7-38.4	7	21.5	10.2-39.9	9	28.4	14.5-48.0	5	16.2	6.7-34.4	3	12.4	3.8-33.4
Northeast NC I	53	16	31.8	19.7-47.0	16	30.1	18.5-45.0	11	19.1	10.2-33.0	7	14.9	7.0-29.1	3	4.0	1.2-12.5
Northeast NC II	59	9	15.4	7.6-28.8	12	25.9	14.0-42.8	19	34.8	21.2-51.5	8	8.5	3.9-17.2	11	15.5	8.2-27.2
Northeastern Partnership	112	25	20.9	13.6-30.8	28	27.3	18.0-39.2	30	29.6	19.6-41.9	15	10.6	6.2-17.7	14	11.6	6.6-19.6
Mountain AHEC	194	35	19.0	12.2-28.3	39	21.4	14.3-30.9	65	34.2	25.5-44.1	34	15.7	10.0-23.7	21	9.7	5.6-16.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	374	90	21.7	14.8-30.5	79	24.8	17.5-34.0	121	27.4	21.0-34.7	45	14.1	8.7-22.1	39	12.0	7.6-18.5
Piedmont	603	107	15.7	12.2-19.9	139	22.7	18.4-27.7	231	43.8	38.1-49.7	84	12.0	8.8-16.4	42	5.8	3.6- 9.1
Western NC	301	59	19.2	13.6-26.4	71	22.2	16.3-29.5	97	37.2	29.4-45.8	46	14.2	9.5-20.7	28	7.2	4.5-11.4

Total
Respond.^

1 day

2 days

3-4 days

5-6 days

Everyday

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

1,278

256

17.8

14.7-21.3

289

23.2

19.7-27.1

449

38.5

34.3-42.8

175

12.9

10.2-16.2

109

7.7

5.7-10.2

RACE

White

1,000

193

18.1

14.6-22.3

228

23.2

19.3-27.5

347

37.2

32.5-42.1

137

13.4

10.3-17.2

8.2

6.0-11.1

African American

202

15.2

9.8-23.0

18.9

12.4-27.6

46.9

36.6-57.5

10.5

6.2-17.3

8.5

3.8-17.9

Asian

47.3

13.3-84.0

29.4

4.9-77.1

22.0

5.5-57.8

1.3

0.2-10.2

0.0

. - .

Native American

10.6

3.2-29.6

59.1

22.4-87.9

29.3

8.1-66.2

1.0

0.1- 8.0

0.0

. - .

Other Minorities

14.0

4.5-36.2

30.3

11.4-59.4

35.5

16.6-60.3

19.7

5.4-51.6

0.4

0.1- 3.2

HISPANIC

Hispanic

17.8

6.8-39.4

26.4

9.3-55.7

42.0

21.6-65.4

13.4

2.3-50.7

0.4

0.1- 3.1

-English Speaking

15.9

3.8-47.6

35.7

7.7-78.7

46.4

16.3-79.5

0.9

0.1- 6.8

1.1

0.1- 8.2

-Spanish Speaking

19.1

5.2-50.5

20.4

5.1-54.7

39.1

15.1-69.8

21.4

3.6-66.4

0.0

. - .

Non-Hispanic

1,232

246

17.8

14.7-21.4

280

23.1

19.6-27.0

427

38.2

34.0-42.7

171

12.8

10.2-16.1

108

8.0

6.0-10.7

AGE

18-24

142

14.1

7.5-24.9

21.2

12.8-33.1

41.7

30.3-54.0

15.9

8.5-27.9

7.1

3.3-14.6

25-34

264

15.6

10.6-22.4

18.5

12.9-25.9

40.9

32.7-49.6

17.3

11.8-24.5

7.7

3.7-15.3

35-44

319

17.1

12.0-24.0

26.0

19.9-33.3

121

41.4

34.1-49.1

7.5

4.9-11.5

7.9

4.9-12.5

45-54

234

21.7

14.2-31.8

30.4

21.8-40.7

31.4

23.2-41.0

8.6

5.0-14.3

7.8

3.7-15.8

55-64

164

20.5

13.8-29.5

21.9

14.2-32.2

33.2

23.6-44.4

15.5

8.8-26.0

8.8

4.8-15.7

65-74

106

32.6

20.8-47.0

19.2

10.8-32.0

25.1

15.3-38.4

16.5

9.1-28.2

6.6

2.6-15.4

75+

20.0

7.2-44.7

20.7

10.3-37.2

37.7

20.8-58.1

13.3

4.9-31.2

8.3

1.5-34.7

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

24.7

13.9-40.0

35.7

21.9-52.2

29.1

16.7-45.7

5.9

2.1-15.7

4.6

1.4-14.1

H.S. or G.E.D.

361

18.5

13.4-24.9

20.0

14.4-27.0

126

42.1

34.1-50.5

12.7

7.7-20.2

6.8

4.3-10.6

Some Post-H.S.

326

15.4

9.9-23.3

25.9

18.7-34.7

116

35.2

27.1-44.3

14.2

8.9-21.8

9.2

5.1-16.1

College Graduate

494

18.0

13.4-23.7

101

21.3

16.6-27.0

186

39.8

33.8-46.1

13.3

9.8-17.7

7.6

4.9-11.8

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

30.9

16.3-50.6

24.6

8.3-54.0

29.9

15.5-49.7

6.5

2.5-15.9

8.2

2.5-24.1

$15,000- 24,999

181

14.6

8.5-23.9

21.4

13.6-31.9

37.7

26.9-50.0

16.8

9.0-29.2

9.6

4.2-20.3

$25,000- 34,999

144

15.7

9.3-25.3

31.7

20.6-45.3

39.5

28.3-52.0

10.1

5.3-18.4

3.0

1.4- 6.4

$35,000- 49,999

237

15.9

10.6-23.0

33.6

24.5-44.1

35.0

26.7-44.3

9.6

5.8-15.6

5.9

3.4-10.1

$50,000-74,999

211

17.8

11.6-26.3

28.0

19.1-39.1

38.3

28.4-49.3

11.2

6.7-18.2

4.6

2.1- 9.6

$75,000+

271

18.2

12.3-26.3

19.1

13.4-26.4

104

37.6

29.9-46.0

16.5

10.7-24.4

8.6

4.9-14.6

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

13.7

6.8-25.6

25.3

16.2-37.3

34.9

22.7-49.4

12.2

6.4-22.2

13.9

6.7-26.7

Guilford

6.5

3.1-13.2

29.3

17.8-44.2

42.8

30.3-56.4

10.6

5.2-20.3

10.8

4.0-26.2

Mecklenburg

12.2

5.9-23.4

15.6

8.1-27.7

41.3

26.4-58.0

28.3

14.0-49.1

2.6

0.8- 8.5

Orange

19.0

10.4-32.1

18.8

11.0-30.2

28.3

18.3-41.1

26.2

16.7-38.6

7.6

3.0-18.1

Wake

23.4

13.7-36.9

19.2

11.2-30.7

43.8

31.4-57.1

9.5

3.7-22.3

4.1

1.3-12.6

Chatham/Lee

18.3

8.6-34.8

31.2

18.2-48.1

17.7

9.2-31.4

16.3

4.3-45.9

16.5

7.6-32.2

Nash/Wilson

27.8

15.5-44.6

20.1

9.6-37.2

32.5

18.6-50.4

10.8

3.7-27.7

8.9

3.2-22.5

Craven/Pamlico

19.0

10.8-31.3

16.9

7.9-32.6

46.9

31.8-62.6

11.6

4.4-27.4

5.5

2.1-13.5

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

26.7

15.8-41.5

22.3

13.0-35.4

32.7

20.8-47.3

8.8

3.7-19.3

9.6

4.0-20.9

Appalachian/Wilkes

17.8

9.5-30.9

27.5

17.2-41.0

41.4

27.1-57.4

10.4

4.7-21.6

2.8

0.8- 9.3

Franklin/Gran./Vance

15.8

6.8-32.7

27.1

12.7-48.7

44.7

19.9-72.4

7.3

3.0-16.4

5.2

1.5-16.5

Graham/Swain/Jackson

14.8

8.1-25.5

8.1

4.0-15.7

46.8

32.8-61.4

20.7

12.1-33.2

9.5

4.0-21.1

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

24.8

12.8-42.4

22.2

12.1-37.0

37.1

22.7-54.3

7.9

3.1-18.5

8.1

1.8-30.0

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

21.5

10.7-38.4

21.5

10.2-39.9

28.4

14.5-48.0

16.2

6.7-34.4

12.4

3.8-33.4

Northeast NC I

31.8

19.7-47.0

30.1

18.5-45.0

19.1

10.2-33.0

14.9

7.0-29.1

4.0

1.2-12.5

Northeast NC II

15.4

7.6-28.8

25.9

14.0-42.8

34.8

21.2-51.5

8.5

3.9-17.2

15.5

8.2-27.2

Northeastern Partnership

112

20.9

13.6-30.8

27.3

18.0-39.2

29.6

19.6-41.9

10.6

6.2-17.7

11.6

6.6-19.6

Mountain AHEC

194

19.0

12.2-28.3

21.4

14.3-30.9

34.2

25.5-44.1

15.7

10.0-23.7

9.7

5.6-16.2

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

374

21.7

14.8-30.5

24.8

17.5-34.0

121

27.4

21.0-34.7

14.1

8.7-22.1

12.0

7.6-18.5

Piedmont

603

107

15.7

12.2-19.9

139

22.7

18.4-27.7

231

43.8

38.1-49.7

12.0

8.8-16.4

5.8

3.6- 9.1

Western NC

301

19.2

13.6-26.4

22.2

16.3-29.5

37.2

29.4-45.8

14.2

9.5-20.7

7.2

4.5-11.4

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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported doing vigorous activities at least 10 minutes at a time.

^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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