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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender Counties

Skin Cancer Prevention

In the past 12 months, have you tried to get a tan using a tanning lamp
or tanning machine, whether it was at a tanning salon, at your home, or elsewhere?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,632 1,127 7.3 6.8- 7.8 13,505 92.7 92.2-93.2
-Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 397 24 6.0 3.8- 9.2 373 94.0 90.8-96.2
GENDER
Male 152 3 2.4 0.7- 7.7 149 97.6 92.3-99.3
Female 245 21 9.6 6.1-14.8 224 90.4 85.2-93.9
RACE
White 305 22 7.0 4.4-10.8 283 93.0 89.2-95.6
Other 90 2 2.8 0.6-13.1 88 97.2 86.9-99.4
AGE
18-44 137 20 12.4 7.6-19.4 117 87.6 80.6-92.4
45+ 257 4 2.2 0.8- 6.2 253 97.8 93.8-99.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 199 11 4.8 2.5- 9.3 188 95.2 90.7-97.5
Some College + 197 13 7.2 4.0-12.6 184 92.8 87.4-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 226 10 4.5 2.2- 8.8 216 95.5 91.2-97.8
$50,000+ 78 7 8.3 3.6-17.9 71 91.7 82.1-96.4

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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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