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

Family Planning

What are you or your husband/wife/partner doing now to keep from getting pregnant?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Tubes tied Vasectomy Pill Condoms Other
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,978 996 24.4 22.8-26.1 521 13.0 11.8-14.3 1,112 27.2 25.6-29.0 613 16.0 14.6-17.4 736 19.4 17.9-21.1
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 136 40 26.3 18.2-36.3 14 10.9 6.1-18.8 31 26.2 18.0-36.6 22 15.8 10.0-24.1 29 20.8 13.7-30.3
GENDER
Male 65 17 23.8 13.4-38.5 7 11.9 5.4-24.0 11 22.8 12.1-38.9 11 16.3 8.6-28.8 19 25.2 15.1-39.0
Female 71 23 29.6 18.4-43.8 7 9.6 3.9-21.7 20 30.7 19.7-44.5 11 15.1 7.8-27.2 10 15.0 7.1-28.9
RACE
White 114 30 24.5 16.3-35.0 14 12.1 6.8-20.8 27 25.9 17.2-37.0 18 16.5 10.2-25.6 25 21.0 13.5-31.1
Other 22 10 42.2 17.3-71.8 0 0.0 . - . 4 29.1 10.0-60.2 4 9.5 2.9-26.5 4 19.3 5.0-52.3
AGE
18-44 117 33 25.4 17.0-36.0 10 8.4 4.0-16.6 30 30.2 20.8-41.7 22 18.6 11.8-28.1 22 17.4 10.6-27.3
45+ 19 7 31.3 11.4-61.8 4 25.0 9.1-52.6 1 3.6 0.5-22.2 0 0.0 . - . 7 40.0 18.0-67.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 54 18 23.5 12.9-38.9 3 9.9 3.2-26.7 11 21.8 11.9-36.6 6 11.8 4.4-27.9 16 33.1 19.8-49.8
Some College + 82 22 28.0 17.5-41.7 11 11.6 5.9-21.5 20 29.0 18.0-43.3 16 18.3 10.9-29.1 13 13.0 6.6-24.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 85 25 25.2 15.6-38.0 4 6.9 2.6-17.1 19 23.3 14.6-35.0 14 17.2 9.6-28.8 23 27.4 17.4-40.3
$50,000+ 35 7 15.1 6.6-30.7 8 18.1 7.9-36.2 7 29.8 14.9-50.7 8 22.9 11.0-41.4 5 14.2 4.8-35.2

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* This question was asked of female respondents who reported being ages 18-44 years old and not pregnant
and of male respondents who reported being ages 18-59 years old.

^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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