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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)

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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 138 28 20.0 13.2-29.1 110 80.0 70.9-86.8
GENDER
Male 39 6 14.6 6.0-31.1 33 85.4 68.9-94.0
Female 99 22 23.4 14.7-35.1 77 76.6 64.9-85.3
RACE
White 109 24 21.7 14.2-31.8 85 78.3 68.2-85.8
Other 29 4 6.4 1.5-23.2 25 93.6 76.8-98.5
AGE
18-44 116 23 18.6 11.8-28.2 93 81.4 71.8-88.2
45+ 21 5 32.0 11.8-62.4 16 68.0 37.6-88.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 66 11 17.8 9.2-31.5 55 82.2 68.5-90.8
Some College + 71 17 21.9 12.7-35.3 54 78.1 64.7-87.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 88 17 18.7 10.7-30.6 71 81.3 69.4-89.3
$50,000+ 31 5 19.6 7.8-41.3 26 80.4 58.7-92.2

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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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