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

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
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
-Carteret/Curr./Craven/Dare/Hyde/Paml. 364 68 20.2 15.8-25.4 296 79.8 74.6-84.2
GENDER
Male 139 29 21.9 15.1-30.7 110 78.1 69.3-84.9
Female 225 39 18.6 13.6-24.9 186 81.4 75.1-86.4
RACE
White 299 60 21.7 16.8-27.5 239 78.3 72.5-83.2
Other 62 8 14.9 7.0-28.8 54 85.1 71.2-93.0
AGE
18-44 127 45 34.3 25.5-44.2 82 65.7 55.8-74.5
45+ 235 22 10.8 6.9-16.6 213 89.2 83.4-93.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 147 20 16.6 10.4-25.4 127 83.4 74.6-89.6
Some College + 216 48 23.0 17.3-29.9 168 77.0 70.1-82.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 193 38 19.5 13.9-26.5 155 80.5 73.5-86.1
$50,000+ 96 18 20.9 13.2-31.5 78 79.1 68.5-86.8

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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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