SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

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

Skin Cancer Prevention

When you're outdoors during the summer for at least half an hour,
how often do you protect your skin from the sun,
such as by using sunscreens or sunblock or wearing hats or protective clothing?
Would you say:

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  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 14,466 4,658 30.5 29.6-31.5 2,945 20.3 19.5-21.1 3,014 21.6 20.7-22.5 1,150 8.8 8.1- 9.4 2,699 18.9 18.0-19.7
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 575 181 30.0 25.7-34.7 118 19.2 15.6-23.3 120 21.6 17.8-26.0 47 8.1 5.6-11.5 109 21.1 17.1-25.9
GENDER
Male 201 62 29.6 22.8-37.5 31 12.8 8.6-18.8 35 18.9 13.3-26.0 19 8.7 4.8-15.2 54 30.0 22.7-38.4
Female 374 119 30.3 25.1-36.1 87 24.6 19.5-30.5 85 24.0 19.0-29.7 28 7.5 4.8-11.6 55 13.6 9.8-18.4
RACE
White 482 153 30.7 26.1-35.7 101 19.0 15.2-23.3 100 22.1 18.0-26.9 41 7.2 4.9-10.3 87 21.1 16.8-26.1
Other 90 27 23.0 12.6-38.3 16 21.0 10.7-37.0 20 18.4 9.8-31.6 6 15.7 5.7-36.6 21 22.0 10.7-39.9
AGE
18-44 199 44 21.6 15.5-29.3 38 16.7 11.3-23.9 49 23.0 16.9-30.5 27 13.8 8.6-21.5 41 24.9 17.7-33.9
45+ 371 135 35.1 29.4-41.2 80 21.1 16.5-26.5 68 20.1 15.4-25.8 20 4.6 2.6- 7.8 68 19.1 14.5-24.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 268 85 27.4 21.4-34.4 46 15.3 10.8-21.3 54 22.1 16.4-29.2 24 9.8 5.8-16.0 59 25.3 18.9-33.0
Some College + 303 95 32.0 26.0-38.6 71 22.1 17.0-28.1 66 21.5 16.6-27.3 22 6.7 4.0-11.0 49 17.8 12.8-24.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 334 103 29.8 24.0-36.2 57 14.8 10.9-19.8 77 23.1 18.0-29.1 32 10.2 6.5-15.7 65 22.1 16.6-28.7
$50,000+ 119 32 25.5 17.8-35.0 40 32.1 23.1-42.6 23 20.7 13.5-30.4 9 6.5 2.9-14.1 15 15.2 9.1-24.3

Back to Skin Cancer Prevention.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 07APR05.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook