BRFSS 2004 - Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties: (The next question is about sunburns, including any time that even a small part of your skin was red for more than 12 hours.Have you had a sunburn within the past 12 months?)

	Total Respond.^	Yes	No
North Carolina	15,014	2,730	19.8	19.0-20.7	12,284	80.2	79.3-81.0
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	360	72	21.2	16.5-26.7	288	78.8	73.3-83.5
GENDER
Male	135	34	24.5	16.9-34.0	101	75.5	66.0-83.1
Female	225	38	17.8	13.0-23.9	187	82.2	76.1-87.0
RACE
White	341	71	23.4	18.4-29.3	270	76.6	70.7-81.6
Other	18	1	1.7	0.2-12.4	17	98.3	87.6-99.8
AGE
18-44	131	46	37.5	28.3-47.7	85	62.5	52.3-71.7
45+	229	26	11.6	7.7-17.2	203	88.4	82.8-92.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	197	30	15.6	10.5-22.4	167	84.4	77.6-89.5
Some College +	163	42	28.9	21.2-38.1	121	71.1	61.9-78.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	223	43	17.9	12.9-24.3	180	82.1	75.7-87.1
$50,000+	62	17	27.3	17.2-40.5	45	72.7	59.5-82.8

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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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	Total Respond.^	Yes			No
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	15,014	2,730	19.8	19.0-20.7	12,284	80.2	79.3-81.0
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	360	72	21.2	16.5-26.7	288	78.8	73.3-83.5
GENDER
Male	135	34	24.5	16.9-34.0	101	75.5	66.0-83.1
Female	225	38	17.8	13.0-23.9	187	82.2	76.1-87.0
RACE
White	341	71	23.4	18.4-29.3	270	76.6	70.7-81.6
Other	18	1	1.7	0.2-12.4	17	98.3	87.6-99.8
AGE
18-44	131	46	37.5	28.3-47.7	85	62.5	52.3-71.7
45+	229	26	11.6	7.7-17.2	203	88.4	82.8-92.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	197	30	15.6	10.5-22.4	167	84.4	77.6-89.5
Some College +	163	42	28.9	21.2-38.1	121	71.1	61.9-78.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	223	43	17.9	12.9-24.3	180	82.1	75.7-87.1
$50,000+	62	17	27.3	17.2-40.5	45	72.7	59.5-82.8

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

Excess Sun Exposure

The next question is about sunburns, including any time that even a small part of your skin was red for more than 12 hours.Have you had a sunburn within the past 12 months?