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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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	Total Respond.^	1 or more times/day	1 or more times/week	1 or more times/month	1 or more times/year	Never
North Carolina	1,517	1,002	65.2	62.1-68.1	327	22.3	19.7-25.0	61	3.9	2.9- 5.3	33	1.9	1.3- 2.9	94	6.7	5.3- 8.6
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	40	33	81.4	64.8-91.3	4	10.1	3.6-25.4	1	3.2	0.4-19.4	1	2.2	0.3-14.4	1	3.0	0.4-18.7
Buncombe	40	28	66.2	47.6-80.9	7	22.2	10.4-41.4	1	1.6	0.2-10.5	1	5.2	0.7-28.9	3	4.8	1.3-15.5
Cabarrus	37	21	53.3	35.8-70.1	13	39.7	23.8-58.0	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.1	0.3-13.4	2	4.9	1.2-18.2
Catawba	36	26	73.2	54.4-86.2	5	13.9	5.2-32.4	2	4.1	0.9-16.3	0	0.0	. - .	3	8.7	2.7-25.0
Cumberland	53	37	73.1	58.7-83.9	11	19.3	10.3-33.2	4	6.3	2.1-17.3	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.3	0.2- 8.7
Davidson	35	23	66.8	48.1-81.4	8	16.9	8.1-32.0	1	3.2	0.5-19.8	1	4.9	0.7-27.6	2	8.1	2.0-27.8
Durham	26	18	71.5	49.3-86.7	5	21.2	8.3-44.5	1	3.9	0.5-23.1	1	1.7	0.2-11.4	1	1.7	0.2-11.4
Forsyth	33	25	70.2	48.9-85.3	5	21.7	8.8-44.3	1	2.3	0.3-14.8	0	0.0	. - .	2	5.8	1.2-23.0
Gaston	49	28	58.7	42.4-73.4	13	29.2	16.5-46.1	5	7.4	2.8-18.1	1	1.3	0.2- 8.5	2	3.4	0.7-14.9
Guilford	42	28	59.4	41.7-74.9	11	31.3	17.5-49.5	2	8.2	2.0-27.8	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.1	0.1- 7.5
Iredell	43	23	48.0	32.3-64.2	12	31.1	17.7-48.7	3	8.1	2.3-24.5	4	11.4	4.4-26.7	1	1.4	0.2- 9.5
Johnston	53	44	89.1	78.4-94.8	6	6.5	2.7-14.9	3	4.5	1.3-14.5	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .
Mecklenburg	44	34	75.7	58.3-87.4	8	21.5	10.4-39.2	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	2.8	0.7-11.0
New Hanover	32	20	61.1	40.8-78.2	6	19.0	7.9-38.9	1	6.0	0.8-32.2	1	1.3	0.2- 9.1	4	12.6	4.0-33.0
Onslow	35	24	64.4	45.3-79.8	6	19.1	8.4-37.9	2	6.9	1.5-26.6	2	5.8	1.4-20.9	1	3.8	0.5-22.6
Orange	32	18	52.6	32.9-71.5	10	28.6	13.6-50.5	1	7.4	1.1-37.3	2	6.6	1.4-26.1	1	4.7	0.7-27.0
Pitt	28	20	70.1	48.1-85.5	4	16.2	5.2-40.3	2	6.3	1.4-23.7	0	0.0	. - .	2	7.5	1.6-28.3
Randolph	30	22	73.6	51.6-88.0	4	10.0	3.4-25.9	2	6.0	1.4-22.0	1	7.9	1.1-39.1	1	2.4	0.3-15.8
Robeson	52	36	66.4	50.8-79.1	9	17.4	8.6-31.9	3	7.0	2.2-20.4	0	0.0	. - .	4	9.2	3.4-23.0
Rowan	43	29	63.0	44.8-78.1	10	22.2	11.7-37.9	1	7.2	1.0-36.3	0	0.0	. - .	3	7.6	1.8-26.9
Union	34	23	69.6	50.6-83.7	5	16.0	6.2-35.4	1	2.6	0.4-16.5	0	0.0	. - .	5	11.7	4.6-27.0
Wake	40	23	58.2	40.9-73.7	14	36.0	21.5-53.5	0	0.0	. - .	1	0.6	0.1- 4.4	2	5.2	1.1-20.9
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	32	19	62.5	42.9-78.7	11	32.9	17.7-52.7	0	0.0	. - .	1	3.5	0.5-21.2	1	1.2	0.2- 7.9
Northeast Partnership II	76	50	66.8	54.3-77.4	18	22.0	13.5-33.9	1	1.3	0.2- 8.9	0	0.0	. - .	7	9.8	4.6-19.8
Northeast Partnership I	55	37	62.8	45.8-77.1	12	20.7	11.0-35.6	3	6.9	1.9-22.3	2	2.7	0.6-11.1	1	6.9	1.0-35.1
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	52	30	61.4	45.9-74.8	13	22.1	12.5-36.2	4	9.0	3.1-23.3	2	2.3	0.6- 9.1	3	5.2	1.5-16.2
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	56	37	58.6	42.3-73.2	10	25.7	13.2-44.0	2	3.8	0.9-14.1	3	5.2	1.4-17.4	4	6.7	2.4-17.4
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	46	37	78.8	61.6-89.6	3	6.8	1.7-23.5	1	1.5	0.2-10.2	3	7.4	2.2-22.0	2	5.5	1.1-23.4
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	53	35	63.0	48.0-75.9	12	26.3	15.1-41.7	2	2.8	0.7-11.5	1	1.9	0.3-12.3	3	5.9	1.8-18.1
Chatham/Lee/Moore	37	23	63.1	43.9-78.9	8	18.5	8.4-36.0	1	3.3	0.5-20.3	0	0.0	. - .	5	15.1	5.3-36.2
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	71	36	51.9	38.8-64.7	21	28.2	18.1-41.0	4	6.3	2.1-17.0	2	2.1	0.5- 8.3	8	11.5	5.5-22.6
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	35	22	61.7	42.6-77.8	9	25.8	12.8-45.1	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.4	0.2- 9.4	3	11.0	3.2-31.8
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	32	21	66.7	47.0-81.9	6	13.6	5.7-29.1	1	3.6	0.5-21.6	0	0.0	. - .	4	16.1	5.6-38.1
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	45	28	70.5	55.3-82.2	11	19.6	10.4-34.0	2	2.4	0.6- 9.3	1	1.2	0.2- 8.2	3	6.3	1.9-18.6
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	70	44	63.3	47.7-76.6	17	18.7	10.5-31.1	3	3.8	0.9-15.6	0	0.0	. - .	6	14.2	5.8-30.9
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	140	91	64.0	54.3-72.6	34	23.5	16.5-32.2	4	3.2	1.1- 9.4	2	1.0	0.2- 4.2	9	8.4	3.9-17.0
No	1,377	911	65.3	62.0-68.4	293	22.2	19.5-25.1	57	4.0	2.9- 5.4	31	2.0	1.3- 3.0	85	6.6	5.1- 8.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	583	397	66.9	62.1-71.3	116	20.6	16.9-25.0	27	4.5	3.0- 6.8	12	2.2	1.1- 4.1	31	5.8	3.9- 8.5
Piedmont	766	494	63.7	59.3-67.9	177	24.5	20.8-28.7	27	3.7	2.3- 5.9	19	1.9	1.2- 3.1	49	6.1	4.4- 8.5
Western NC	168	111	66.0	56.6-74.3	34	18.6	12.8-26.3	7	3.3	1.3- 8.2	2	1.4	0.3- 6.5	14	10.6	5.6-19.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	109	71	63.5	51.2-74.2	24	20.1	12.7-30.3	4	3.2	0.9-11.1	1	1.6	0.2-10.6	9	11.6	5.2-23.8
Northwest	262	171	64.6	57.4-71.3	56	21.7	16.2-28.5	11	3.9	2.1- 7.2	7	2.5	1.2- 5.4	17	7.2	4.2-12.1
Charlotte	211	134	67.3	59.2-74.4	52	24.3	17.8-32.1	7	2.6	1.1- 6.1	3	0.7	0.2- 2.3	15	5.2	2.9- 9.0
Greensboro	170	115	63.3	53.2-72.3	37	23.4	15.8-33.1	6	5.7	2.2-14.1	4	2.1	0.6- 6.9	8	5.5	2.3-12.5
Southern Regional	196	124	61.5	53.0-69.3	44	24.3	17.5-32.7	12	5.9	3.2-10.6	4	2.7	0.9- 7.8	12	5.5	3.0-10.1
Coastal	70	51	72.2	58.8-82.5	7	11.8	5.3-24.4	2	3.7	0.8-15.1	4	4.9	1.7-13.7	6	7.4	2.9-17.4
Wake	192	133	66.0	56.9-74.1	38	24.4	17.2-33.4	7	2.9	1.1- 7.3	5	1.7	0.7- 4.0	9	5.0	2.2-10.7
Area L	84	57	70.1	58.2-79.8	18	21.7	13.4-33.2	5	5.1	2.0-12.3	2	1.1	0.3- 4.6	2	1.9	0.5- 7.5
Eastern	206	136	65.1	57.0-72.4	46	21.6	15.7-28.8	7	3.5	1.5- 7.9	3	1.4	0.4- 4.5	14	8.4	4.7-14.8

Total
Respond.^

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Never

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

1,517

1,002

65.2

62.1-68.1

327

22.3

19.7-25.0

3.9

2.9- 5.3

1.9

1.3- 2.9

6.7

5.3- 8.6

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

81.4

64.8-91.3

10.1

3.6-25.4

3.2

0.4-19.4

2.2

0.3-14.4

3.0

0.4-18.7

Buncombe

66.2

47.6-80.9

22.2

10.4-41.4

1.6

0.2-10.5

5.2

0.7-28.9

4.8

1.3-15.5

Cabarrus

53.3

35.8-70.1

39.7

23.8-58.0

0.0

. - .

2.1

0.3-13.4

4.9

1.2-18.2

Catawba

73.2

54.4-86.2

13.9

5.2-32.4

4.1

0.9-16.3

0.0

. - .

8.7

2.7-25.0

Cumberland

73.1

58.7-83.9

19.3

10.3-33.2

6.3

2.1-17.3

0.0

. - .

1.3

0.2- 8.7

Davidson

66.8

48.1-81.4

16.9

8.1-32.0

3.2

0.5-19.8

4.9

0.7-27.6

8.1

2.0-27.8

Durham

71.5

49.3-86.7

21.2

8.3-44.5

3.9

0.5-23.1

1.7

0.2-11.4

1.7

0.2-11.4

Forsyth

70.2

48.9-85.3

21.7

8.8-44.3

2.3

0.3-14.8

0.0

. - .

5.8

1.2-23.0

Gaston

58.7

42.4-73.4

29.2

16.5-46.1

7.4

2.8-18.1

1.3

0.2- 8.5

3.4

0.7-14.9

Guilford

59.4

41.7-74.9

31.3

17.5-49.5

8.2

2.0-27.8

0.0

. - .

1.1

0.1- 7.5

Iredell

48.0

32.3-64.2

31.1

17.7-48.7

8.1

2.3-24.5

11.4

4.4-26.7

1.4

0.2- 9.5

Johnston

89.1

78.4-94.8

6.5

2.7-14.9

4.5

1.3-14.5

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

Mecklenburg

75.7

58.3-87.4

21.5

10.4-39.2

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

2.8

0.7-11.0

New Hanover

61.1

40.8-78.2

19.0

7.9-38.9

6.0

0.8-32.2

1.3

0.2- 9.1

12.6

4.0-33.0

Onslow

64.4

45.3-79.8

19.1

8.4-37.9

6.9

1.5-26.6

5.8

1.4-20.9

3.8

0.5-22.6

Orange

52.6

32.9-71.5

28.6

13.6-50.5

7.4

1.1-37.3

6.6

1.4-26.1

4.7

0.7-27.0

Pitt

70.1

48.1-85.5

16.2

5.2-40.3

6.3

1.4-23.7

0.0

. - .

7.5

1.6-28.3

Randolph

73.6

51.6-88.0

10.0

3.4-25.9

6.0

1.4-22.0

7.9

1.1-39.1

2.4

0.3-15.8

Robeson

66.4

50.8-79.1

17.4

8.6-31.9

7.0

2.2-20.4

0.0

. - .

9.2

3.4-23.0

Rowan

63.0

44.8-78.1

22.2

11.7-37.9

7.2

1.0-36.3

0.0

. - .

7.6

1.8-26.9

Union

69.6

50.6-83.7

16.0

6.2-35.4

2.6

0.4-16.5

0.0

. - .

11.7

4.6-27.0

Wake

58.2

40.9-73.7

36.0

21.5-53.5

0.0

. - .

0.6

0.1- 4.4

5.2

1.1-20.9

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

62.5

42.9-78.7

32.9

17.7-52.7

0.0

. - .

3.5

0.5-21.2

1.2

0.2- 7.9

Northeast Partnership II

66.8

54.3-77.4

22.0

13.5-33.9

1.3

0.2- 8.9

0.0

. - .

9.8

4.6-19.8

Northeast Partnership I

62.8

45.8-77.1

20.7

11.0-35.6

6.9

1.9-22.3

2.7

0.6-11.1

6.9

1.0-35.1

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

61.4

45.9-74.8

22.1

12.5-36.2

9.0

3.1-23.3

2.3

0.6- 9.1

5.2

1.5-16.2

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

58.6

42.3-73.2

25.7

13.2-44.0

3.8

0.9-14.1

5.2

1.4-17.4

6.7

2.4-17.4

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

78.8

61.6-89.6

6.8

1.7-23.5

1.5

0.2-10.2

7.4

2.2-22.0

5.5

1.1-23.4

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

63.0

48.0-75.9

26.3

15.1-41.7

2.8

0.7-11.5

1.9

0.3-12.3

5.9

1.8-18.1

Chatham/Lee/Moore

63.1

43.9-78.9

18.5

8.4-36.0

3.3

0.5-20.3

0.0

. - .

15.1

5.3-36.2

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

51.9

38.8-64.7

28.2

18.1-41.0

6.3

2.1-17.0

2.1

0.5- 8.3

11.5

5.5-22.6

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

61.7

42.6-77.8

25.8

12.8-45.1

0.0

. - .

1.4

0.2- 9.4

11.0

3.2-31.8

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes

66.7

47.0-81.9

13.6

5.7-29.1

3.6

0.5-21.6

0.0

. - .

16.1

5.6-38.1

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

70.5

55.3-82.2

19.6

10.4-34.0

2.4

0.6- 9.3

1.2

0.2- 8.2

6.3

1.9-18.6

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

63.3

47.7-76.6

18.7

10.5-31.1

3.8

0.9-15.6

0.0

. - .

14.2

5.8-30.9

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

140

64.0

54.3-72.6

23.5

16.5-32.2

3.2

1.1- 9.4

1.0

0.2- 4.2

8.4

3.9-17.0

1,377

911

65.3

62.0-68.4

293

22.2

19.5-25.1

4.0

2.9- 5.4

2.0

1.3- 3.0

6.6

5.1- 8.5

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

583

397

66.9

62.1-71.3

116

20.6

16.9-25.0

4.5

3.0- 6.8

2.2

1.1- 4.1

5.8

3.9- 8.5

Piedmont

766

494

63.7

59.3-67.9

177

24.5

20.8-28.7

3.7

2.3- 5.9

1.9

1.2- 3.1

6.1

4.4- 8.5

Western NC

168

111

66.0

56.6-74.3

18.6

12.8-26.3

3.3

1.3- 8.2

1.4

0.3- 6.5

10.6

5.6-19.1

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

109

63.5

51.2-74.2

20.1

12.7-30.3

3.2

0.9-11.1

1.6

0.2-10.6

11.6

5.2-23.8

Northwest

262

171

64.6

57.4-71.3

21.7

16.2-28.5

3.9

2.1- 7.2

2.5

1.2- 5.4

7.2

4.2-12.1

Charlotte

211

134

67.3

59.2-74.4

24.3

17.8-32.1

2.6

1.1- 6.1

0.7

0.2- 2.3

5.2

2.9- 9.0

Greensboro

170

115

63.3

53.2-72.3

23.4

15.8-33.1

5.7

2.2-14.1

2.1

0.6- 6.9

5.5

2.3-12.5

Southern Regional

196

124

61.5

53.0-69.3

24.3

17.5-32.7

5.9

3.2-10.6

2.7

0.9- 7.8

5.5

3.0-10.1

Coastal

72.2

58.8-82.5

11.8

5.3-24.4

3.7

0.8-15.1

4.9

1.7-13.7

7.4

2.9-17.4

Wake

192

133

66.0

56.9-74.1

24.4

17.2-33.4

2.9

1.1- 7.3

1.7

0.7- 4.0

5.0

2.2-10.7

Area L

70.1

58.2-79.8

21.7

13.4-33.2

5.1

2.0-12.3

1.1

0.3- 4.6

1.9

0.5- 7.5

Eastern

206

136

65.1

57.0-72.4

21.6

15.7-28.8

3.5

1.5- 7.9

1.4

0.4- 4.5

8.4

4.7-14.8

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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, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.

*** 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.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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