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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties

Healthy Days

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
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,735 9,890 68.4 67.5-69.4 1,281 9.0 8.5- 9.6 1,293 8.7 8.1- 9.3 953 6.0 5.6- 6.5 1,318 7.9 7.4- 8.4
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes 353 236 67.1 60.3-73.2 25 7.0 4.6-10.4 28 7.0 4.7-10.4 19 5.0 3.1- 8.1 45 13.9 8.9-21.1
GENDER
Male 135 89 66.0 54.6-75.9 13 7.6 4.3-13.3 10 5.9 3.0-11.2 2 1.3 0.3- 5.1 21 19.1 10.5-32.2
Female 218 147 68.1 61.1-74.4 12 6.3 3.6-11.0 18 8.2 5.0-13.3 17 9.0 5.4-14.5 24 8.3 5.5-12.5
RACE
White 336 225 68.9 63.2-74.1 23 6.8 4.5-10.2 26 7.3 4.8-10.9 19 5.6 3.4- 8.9 43 11.5 8.2-15.8
Other 17 11 50.4 19.2-81.3 2 9.0 1.9-33.3 2 4.8 0.8-24.6 0 0.0 . - . 2 35.8 8.8-76.4
AGE
18-44 131 93 71.9 62.6-79.6 16 12.1 7.4-19.2 11 7.1 3.6-13.5 4 3.3 1.2- 8.7 7 5.7 2.4-13.0
45+ 222 143 64.1 54.8-72.5 9 3.9 1.9- 7.9 17 7.0 4.2-11.5 15 6.1 3.5-10.5 38 18.9 11.6-29.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 191 120 63.1 53.1-72.0 10 4.3 2.2- 8.2 16 7.4 4.3-12.6 13 6.5 3.6-11.4 32 18.7 11.0-30.1
Some College + 162 116 72.5 64.3-79.4 15 10.7 6.4-17.3 12 6.5 3.5-11.6 6 3.0 1.3- 7.0 13 7.3 3.9-13.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 221 139 62.8 53.7-71.0 20 8.9 5.6-13.9 18 7.2 4.3-11.9 13 6.1 3.4-10.6 31 15.0 8.3-25.6
$50,000+ 61 51 84.7 73.1-91.9 2 3.2 0.7-12.9 3 5.4 1.7-15.7 3 3.5 1.1-10.9 2 3.1 0.7-12.5

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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 (MAHEC): 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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