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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance Counties

Skin Cancer Prevention

Has the youngest child in your household had a sunburn within the past 12 months?,
By sunburn, I mean reddening of the skin that lasted at least 12 hours.

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,825 645 15.8 14.5-17.3 3,180 84.2 82.7-85.5
-Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance 114 20 18.2 11.4-27.7 94 81.8 72.3-88.6
GENDER
Male 40 6 13.3 5.8-27.8 34 86.7 72.2-94.2
Female 74 14 22.2 12.7-35.8 60 77.8 64.2-87.3
RACE
White 66 18 26.9 17.0-39.9 48 73.1 60.1-83.0
Other 48 2 6.5 1.3-26.8 46 93.5 73.2-98.7
AGE
18-44 89 15 19.5 11.6-30.9 74 80.5 69.1-88.4
45+ 24 4 11.0 3.6-28.9 20 89.0 71.1-96.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 63 17 24.8 15.1-37.9 46 75.2 62.1-84.9
Some College + 51 3 9.3 2.7-27.3 48 90.7 72.7-97.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 62 9 12.9 6.4-24.3 53 87.1 75.7-93.6
$50,000+ 31 5 21.1 8.7-42.9 26 78.9 57.1-91.3

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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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