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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico Counties

Skin Cancer Prevention

When you are outdoors during the summer for at least half an hour, how often do you stay in the shade?

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  Total
Respond.^
Always Nearly always Sometimes Seldom Never
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,297 2,482 15.8 15.1-16.5 3,766 25.4 24.5-26.3 5,450 39.9 38.8-40.9 1,534 11.3 10.7-12.0 1,065 7.6 7.1- 8.2
-Carteret/Curr./Craven/Dare/Hyde/Paml. 337 59 16.3 12.2-21.4 84 24.0 19.2-29.5 117 35.5 29.9-41.5 48 14.9 11.0-19.9 29 9.3 6.2-13.8
GENDER
Male 133 19 14.6 9.1-22.8 29 20.7 14.1-29.3 46 34.5 26.0-44.1 25 19.2 12.7-27.9 14 11.0 6.1-18.8
Female 204 40 18.0 12.6-24.9 55 27.3 21.0-34.6 71 36.5 29.6-44.1 23 10.6 6.9-15.9 15 7.7 4.4-13.0
RACE
White 280 39 13.0 9.1-18.3 62 21.3 16.4-27.1 109 39.7 33.6-46.2 45 16.9 12.4-22.5 25 9.1 5.9-13.9
Other 55 20 30.1 18.2-45.6 21 34.7 21.7-50.4 7 17.8 7.0-38.4 3 7.1 1.8-23.9 4 10.3 3.7-25.5
AGE
18-44 117 11 9.4 5.0-17.0 22 20.1 12.8-30.0 48 38.7 29.0-49.3 22 17.5 11.0-26.6 14 14.3 8.2-23.9
45+ 218 48 21.0 15.3-28.1 61 26.3 20.4-33.1 68 33.3 26.8-40.5 26 13.3 8.9-19.6 15 6.1 3.5-10.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 130 30 21.0 13.8-30.5 38 26.2 18.6-35.7 32 28.4 19.7-39.0 13 9.5 5.3-16.3 17 14.9 8.8-24.2
Some College + 206 29 13.1 8.8-19.1 46 22.5 16.7-29.4 84 40.3 33.2-47.8 35 18.7 13.2-25.9 12 5.4 3.0- 9.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 32 15.2 10.2-22.1 54 29.4 22.3-37.8 60 35.5 27.5-44.3 23 11.9 7.4-18.6 13 7.9 4.3-14.2
$50,000+ 91 11 12.9 7.0-22.8 13 13.4 7.8-22.2 40 42.6 32.4-53.5 19 22.7 14.5-33.7 8 8.3 3.9-16.5

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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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