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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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	Total Respond.^	Past month	Past year	Past 2 years	2+ years ago	Never
North Carolina	1,536	391	24.4	21.9-27.2	774	50.3	47.1-53.4	183	11.2	9.4-13.2	147	11.0	9.0-13.5	41	3.1	2.1- 4.5
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	39	10	21.4	10.9-37.7	17	46.6	28.8-65.3	7	17.5	8.0-33.9	5	14.6	5.7-32.4	0	0.0	. - .
Buncombe	40	12	29.8	16.7-47.4	20	45.2	29.0-62.4	3	13.1	4.3-33.6	4	9.3	3.2-24.2	1	2.6	0.4-16.5
Cabarrus	38	5	13.5	5.4-29.9	23	59.8	41.4-75.7	4	7.5	2.7-19.2	5	15.6	5.5-36.8	1	3.6	0.5-21.8
Catawba	37	13	32.4	17.6-51.7	20	56.3	37.4-73.5	2	5.9	1.4-22.1	1	4.0	0.6-23.7	1	1.4	0.2- 9.8
Cumberland	55	10	19.1	10.3-32.5	30	57.6	43.2-70.8	9	14.9	7.4-27.7	4	5.3	1.9-13.7	2	3.1	0.8-11.8
Davidson	36	4	11.8	4.4-28.0	23	59.0	40.1-75.5	3	5.9	1.7-18.8	6	23.3	10.4-44.4	0	0.0	. - .
Durham	27	6	22.0	9.5-43.1	11	44.0	24.6-65.5	6	20.7	9.0-41.0	4	13.3	4.8-32.0	0	0.0	. - .
Forsyth	31	5	13.0	5.0-29.7	16	55.0	35.5-73.0	6	19.2	8.3-38.5	3	6.1	1.9-18.1	1	6.8	1.0-35.0
Gaston	51	11	32.6	18.5-50.7	25	46.9	31.8-62.5	6	8.5	3.4-19.4	8	10.9	5.1-21.8	1	1.2	0.2- 8.4
Guilford	42	16	39.6	24.6-56.8	17	43.0	27.4-60.0	5	10.5	4.2-24.2	3	5.7	1.6-18.5	1	1.2	0.2- 8.2
Iredell	44	15	33.6	20.2-50.4	20	44.5	29.3-60.9	5	12.9	4.8-30.0	4	9.0	3.0-23.8	0	0.0	. - .
Johnston	51	13	30.9	16.2-51.0	27	45.8	29.7-63.0	3	3.3	0.9-10.6	5	8.6	3.4-20.1	3	11.3	3.6-30.7
Mecklenburg	46	12	21.4	11.5-36.4	24	50.3	33.4-67.1	3	5.0	1.4-16.6	6	22.3	9.1-45.0	1	1.0	0.1- 6.8
New Hanover	32	5	13.8	5.0-32.6	20	60.2	39.6-77.8	5	20.0	7.2-44.4	2	6.0	1.5-21.3	0	0.0	. - .
Onslow	36	9	30.3	16.2-49.5	20	48.5	31.3-66.1	6	14.0	6.0-29.4	0	0.0	. - .	1	7.2	1.0-36.2
Orange	32	9	28.0	14.3-47.7	17	48.0	29.3-67.3	5	14.0	5.4-31.7	1	9.9	1.5-44.8	0	0.0	. - .
Pitt	28	9	29.9	14.8-51.0	11	38.6	21.7-58.7	5	22.5	9.7-44.2	3	9.0	2.7-26.0	0	0.0	. - .
Randolph	30	10	21.7	10.6-39.2	12	47.8	26.8-69.5	3	9.7	3.0-27.1	3	10.6	3.1-30.3	2	10.3	2.2-37.2
Robeson	51	15	28.6	16.9-44.1	25	48.8	34.0-63.8	3	5.8	1.7-17.8	7	15.9	7.1-31.9	1	0.8	0.1- 5.7
Rowan	46	13	28.9	16.3-45.9	22	43.0	28.0-59.3	6	12.5	5.3-26.8	4	14.5	5.1-35.0	1	1.0	0.1- 7.2
Union	36	12	33.7	18.6-53.1	17	51.9	33.8-69.6	5	8.1	3.2-18.9	2	6.3	1.5-22.5	0	0.0	. - .
Wake	42	11	20.5	11.1-35.0	23	58.1	41.0-73.5	4	5.8	1.9-16.4	3	13.7	4.2-36.3	1	1.9	0.3-12.4
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	33	6	20.2	8.4-41.1	22	64.4	44.6-80.3	2	6.4	1.6-22.6	1	4.9	0.7-27.5	2	4.1	1.0-15.6
Northeast Partnership II	77	16	23.5	14.1-36.6	45	61.4	48.7-72.7	5	4.3	1.7-10.2	8	7.6	3.5-15.8	3	3.2	1.0- 9.9
Northeast Partnership I	54	15	22.1	12.4-36.3	24	48.3	33.2-63.7	4	8.5	2.8-23.2	9	14.8	7.4-27.5	2	6.3	1.4-23.7
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	52	8	9.5	4.3-19.5	31	63.7	48.1-76.9	6	10.6	4.4-23.5	5	12.4	5.0-27.6	2	3.8	0.8-16.1
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	59	10	14.5	7.5-26.5	37	61.0	45.6-74.4	4	6.5	2.1-18.4	4	10.1	3.5-25.4	4	7.9	2.6-21.3
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	46	17	35.0	21.7-51.1	22	46.9	31.5-62.9	4	5.9	2.1-15.9	3	12.2	4.0-31.5	0	0.0	. - .
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	55	13	24.1	14.1-38.2	25	42.3	29.1-56.7	9	16.5	8.4-30.0	5	11.3	4.7-24.7	3	5.7	1.9-16.4
Chatham/Lee/Moore	38	10	22.7	11.9-39.0	19	49.6	32.1-67.3	4	9.9	3.2-26.9	2	6.6	1.7-23.1	3	11.1	2.9-34.1
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	69	18	26.0	16.2-39.1	32	43.8	31.2-57.3	7	8.8	4.0-18.2	11	20.2	10.9-34.3	1	1.2	0.2- 8.4
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	34	13	37.0	21.4-56.0	7	22.7	10.7-42.0	7	17.1	7.8-33.6	6	20.3	8.7-40.5	1	2.8	0.4-17.6
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	31	9	32.3	17.1-52.5	14	48.0	29.8-66.8	5	11.3	3.8-29.5	2	3.9	0.9-15.4	1	4.4	0.6-25.4
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	44	17	38.2	24.1-54.6	18	40.3	25.6-56.9	8	19.8	9.7-36.1	1	1.8	0.2-11.8	0	0.0	. - .
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	74	14	16.7	7.4-33.4	38	51.0	35.7-66.0	14	17.7	9.5-30.7	7	10.8	4.3-24.8	1	3.8	0.5-22.3
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	140	33	23.5	16.3-32.6	75	56.7	47.2-65.7	10	6.3	3.2-12.1	17	9.5	5.7-15.5	5	4.0	1.5-10.2
No	1,396	358	24.5	21.8-27.4	699	49.8	46.4-53.1	173	11.6	9.7-13.7	130	11.1	9.0-13.7	36	3.0	2.0- 4.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	588	140	22.2	18.6-26.3	319	54.7	49.7-59.6	57	9.0	6.7-12.0	52	10.1	6.9-14.5	20	4.0	2.4- 6.5
Piedmont	777	206	25.9	22.3-29.9	374	48.5	44.1-52.9	99	10.8	8.7-13.5	80	12.3	9.4-15.8	18	2.5	1.4- 4.2
Western NC	171	45	24.7	17.4-33.8	81	46.3	37.0-55.9	27	16.9	11.1-24.9	15	9.1	4.9-16.4	3	3.0	0.8-10.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	113	26	20.9	12.4-33.0	57	48.4	36.4-60.6	17	16.7	9.8-27.1	11	10.6	5.1-20.7	2	3.5	0.7-15.4
Northwest	264	72	26.8	20.9-33.7	129	47.2	40.0-54.5	36	14.5	10.0-20.5	23	9.5	6.0-14.7	4	2.0	0.5- 6.9
Charlotte	214	55	27.8	21.0-35.8	109	51.2	42.9-59.4	21	7.5	4.3-12.6	25	12.2	7.5-19.3	4	1.4	0.5- 3.7
Greensboro	169	55	33.5	25.0-43.1	70	40.3	31.2-50.2	22	11.5	7.1-18.1	18	11.8	6.9-19.3	4	2.9	1.0- 8.2
Southern Regional	197	49	22.4	16.7-29.3	99	52.5	44.3-60.6	23	10.2	6.5-15.6	19	10.6	6.5-16.9	7	4.3	1.8- 9.8
Coastal	72	22	27.7	18.0-40.2	37	48.6	35.7-61.6	8	11.5	5.1-24.1	5	12.2	4.8-27.9	0	0.0	. - .
Wake	196	44	20.9	14.9-28.4	100	52.3	43.4-61.0	25	9.9	6.3-15.2	20	13.5	7.7-22.8	7	3.5	1.6- 7.5
Area L	84	18	18.7	11.0-29.9	41	54.7	42.1-66.8	10	11.8	6.0-22.1	12	11.0	5.9-19.6	3	3.8	1.1-12.2
Eastern	209	46	20.7	15.1-27.7	123	60.9	53.0-68.3	18	8.1	4.7-13.4	13	5.7	3.0-10.4	9	4.7	2.3- 9.4

Total
Respond.^

Past month

Past year

Past 2 years

2+ years ago

Never

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

1,536

391

24.4

21.9-27.2

774

50.3

47.1-53.4

183

11.2

9.4-13.2

147

11.0

9.0-13.5

3.1

2.1- 4.5

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

21.4

10.9-37.7

46.6

28.8-65.3

17.5

8.0-33.9

14.6

5.7-32.4

0.0

. - .

Buncombe

29.8

16.7-47.4

45.2

29.0-62.4

13.1

4.3-33.6

9.3

3.2-24.2

2.6

0.4-16.5

Cabarrus

13.5

5.4-29.9

59.8

41.4-75.7

7.5

2.7-19.2

15.6

5.5-36.8

3.6

0.5-21.8

Catawba

32.4

17.6-51.7

56.3

37.4-73.5

5.9

1.4-22.1

4.0

0.6-23.7

1.4

0.2- 9.8

Cumberland

19.1

10.3-32.5

57.6

43.2-70.8

14.9

7.4-27.7

5.3

1.9-13.7

3.1

0.8-11.8

Davidson

11.8

4.4-28.0

59.0

40.1-75.5

5.9

1.7-18.8

23.3

10.4-44.4

0.0

. - .

Durham

22.0

9.5-43.1

44.0

24.6-65.5

20.7

9.0-41.0

13.3

4.8-32.0

0.0

. - .

Forsyth

13.0

5.0-29.7

55.0

35.5-73.0

19.2

8.3-38.5

6.1

1.9-18.1

6.8

1.0-35.0

Gaston

32.6

18.5-50.7

46.9

31.8-62.5

8.5

3.4-19.4

10.9

5.1-21.8

1.2

0.2- 8.4

Guilford

39.6

24.6-56.8

43.0

27.4-60.0

10.5

4.2-24.2

5.7

1.6-18.5

1.2

0.2- 8.2

Iredell

33.6

20.2-50.4

44.5

29.3-60.9

12.9

4.8-30.0

9.0

3.0-23.8

0.0

. - .

Johnston

30.9

16.2-51.0

45.8

29.7-63.0

3.3

0.9-10.6

8.6

3.4-20.1

11.3

3.6-30.7

Mecklenburg

21.4

11.5-36.4

50.3

33.4-67.1

5.0

1.4-16.6

22.3

9.1-45.0

1.0

0.1- 6.8

New Hanover

13.8

5.0-32.6

60.2

39.6-77.8

20.0

7.2-44.4

6.0

1.5-21.3

0.0

. - .

Onslow

30.3

16.2-49.5

48.5

31.3-66.1

14.0

6.0-29.4

0.0

. - .

7.2

1.0-36.2

Orange

28.0

14.3-47.7

48.0

29.3-67.3

14.0

5.4-31.7

9.9

1.5-44.8

0.0

. - .

Pitt

29.9

14.8-51.0

38.6

21.7-58.7

22.5

9.7-44.2

9.0

2.7-26.0

0.0

. - .

Randolph

21.7

10.6-39.2

47.8

26.8-69.5

9.7

3.0-27.1

10.6

3.1-30.3

10.3

2.2-37.2

Robeson

28.6

16.9-44.1

48.8

34.0-63.8

5.8

1.7-17.8

15.9

7.1-31.9

0.8

0.1- 5.7

Rowan

28.9

16.3-45.9

43.0

28.0-59.3

12.5

5.3-26.8

14.5

5.1-35.0

1.0

0.1- 7.2

Union

33.7

18.6-53.1

51.9

33.8-69.6

8.1

3.2-18.9

6.3

1.5-22.5

0.0

. - .

Wake

20.5

11.1-35.0

58.1

41.0-73.5

5.8

1.9-16.4

13.7

4.2-36.3

1.9

0.3-12.4

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

20.2

8.4-41.1

64.4

44.6-80.3

6.4

1.6-22.6

4.9

0.7-27.5

4.1

1.0-15.6

Northeast Partnership II

23.5

14.1-36.6

61.4

48.7-72.7

4.3

1.7-10.2

7.6

3.5-15.8

3.2

1.0- 9.9

Northeast Partnership I

22.1

12.4-36.3

48.3

33.2-63.7

8.5

2.8-23.2

14.8

7.4-27.5

6.3

1.4-23.7

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

9.5

4.3-19.5

63.7

48.1-76.9

10.6

4.4-23.5

12.4

5.0-27.6

3.8

0.8-16.1

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

14.5

7.5-26.5

61.0

45.6-74.4

6.5

2.1-18.4

10.1

3.5-25.4

7.9

2.6-21.3

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

35.0

21.7-51.1

46.9

31.5-62.9

5.9

2.1-15.9

12.2

4.0-31.5

0.0

. - .

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

24.1

14.1-38.2

42.3

29.1-56.7

16.5

8.4-30.0

11.3

4.7-24.7

5.7

1.9-16.4

Chatham/Lee/Moore

22.7

11.9-39.0

49.6

32.1-67.3

9.9

3.2-26.9

6.6

1.7-23.1

11.1

2.9-34.1

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

26.0

16.2-39.1

43.8

31.2-57.3

8.8

4.0-18.2

20.2

10.9-34.3

1.2

0.2- 8.4

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

37.0

21.4-56.0

22.7

10.7-42.0

17.1

7.8-33.6

20.3

8.7-40.5

2.8

0.4-17.6

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes

32.3

17.1-52.5

48.0

29.8-66.8

11.3

3.8-29.5

3.9

0.9-15.4

4.4

0.6-25.4

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

38.2

24.1-54.6

40.3

25.6-56.9

19.8

9.7-36.1

1.8

0.2-11.8

0.0

. - .

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

16.7

7.4-33.4

51.0

35.7-66.0

17.7

9.5-30.7

10.8

4.3-24.8

3.8

0.5-22.3

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

140

23.5

16.3-32.6

56.7

47.2-65.7

6.3

3.2-12.1

9.5

5.7-15.5

4.0

1.5-10.2

1,396

358

24.5

21.8-27.4

699

49.8

46.4-53.1

173

11.6

9.7-13.7

130

11.1

9.0-13.7

3.0

2.0- 4.5

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

588

140

22.2

18.6-26.3

319

54.7

49.7-59.6

9.0

6.7-12.0

10.1

6.9-14.5

4.0

2.4- 6.5

Piedmont

777

206

25.9

22.3-29.9

374

48.5

44.1-52.9

10.8

8.7-13.5

12.3

9.4-15.8

2.5

1.4- 4.2

Western NC

171

24.7

17.4-33.8

46.3

37.0-55.9

16.9

11.1-24.9

9.1

4.9-16.4

3.0

0.8-10.7

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

113

20.9

12.4-33.0

48.4

36.4-60.6

16.7

9.8-27.1

10.6

5.1-20.7

3.5

0.7-15.4

Northwest

264

26.8

20.9-33.7

129

47.2

40.0-54.5

14.5

10.0-20.5

9.5

6.0-14.7

2.0

0.5- 6.9

Charlotte

214

27.8

21.0-35.8

109

51.2

42.9-59.4

7.5

4.3-12.6

12.2

7.5-19.3

1.4

0.5- 3.7

Greensboro

169

33.5

25.0-43.1

40.3

31.2-50.2

11.5

7.1-18.1

11.8

6.9-19.3

2.9

1.0- 8.2

Southern Regional

197

22.4

16.7-29.3

52.5

44.3-60.6

10.2

6.5-15.6

10.6

6.5-16.9

4.3

1.8- 9.8

Coastal

27.7

18.0-40.2

48.6

35.7-61.6

11.5

5.1-24.1

12.2

4.8-27.9

0.0

. - .

Wake

196

20.9

14.9-28.4

100

52.3

43.4-61.0

9.9

6.3-15.2

13.5

7.7-22.8

3.5

1.6- 7.5

Area L

18.7

11.0-29.9

54.7

42.1-66.8

11.8

6.0-22.1

11.0

5.9-19.6

3.8

1.1-12.2

Eastern

209

20.7

15.1-27.7

123

60.9

53.0-68.3

8.1

4.7-13.4

5.7

3.0-10.4

4.7

2.3- 9.4

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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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