BRFSS 2004 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (What is your main reason for not doing anything to keep you/your partner from getting pregnant?*)

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Family Planning

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	Total Respond.^	Want to get pregnant	Had hysterectomy	Believe can't get pregnant	Vasectomy/Tubes tied	Other
North Carolina	1,418	310	21.6	19.2-24.3	104	8.6	6.9-10.7	175	12.5	10.6-14.8	284	19.7	17.3-22.4	545	37.5	34.5-40.6
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	27	7	26.3	11.3-50.0	1	10.2	1.5-45.9	4	10.5	3.7-26.4	6	21.7	9.0-43.6	9	31.3	15.8-52.5
Buncombe	31	6	20.6	9.2-39.8	0	0.0	. - .	8	21.3	10.4-38.8	5	14.0	5.7-30.5	12	44.1	26.8-63.0
Cabarrus	35	5	13.8	5.5-30.4	1	4.5	0.6-25.7	4	12.1	4.4-29.1	8	22.6	11.0-41.1	17	46.9	29.6-65.1
Catawba	47	6	11.7	4.3-27.9	5	14.1	5.8-30.4	5	6.7	2.6-16.3	7	14.3	6.5-28.3	24	53.3	37.4-68.5
Cumberland	35	7	14.9	6.8-29.8	2	8.9	2.1-31.4	2	12.1	3.2-36.8	8	23.2	11.1-42.3	16	40.7	24.7-59.0
Davidson	49	11	25.1	13.7-41.6	2	7.1	1.5-27.4	14	29.8	17.8-45.5	10	17.3	8.8-31.2	12	20.6	11.1-34.9
Durham	36	14	39.4	23.8-57.5	1	4.3	0.6-25.1	2	4.5	1.0-17.5	3	13.2	4.4-33.5	16	38.6	23.6-56.1
Forsyth	39	9	23.2	12.0-39.9	5	19.2	8.0-39.3	1	2.8	0.4-17.7	4	6.7	2.5-17.2	20	48.1	31.8-64.8
Gaston	31	3	11.4	3.5-31.0	5	15.8	6.1-35.0	3	12.3	4.0-32.3	4	13.5	4.8-32.8	16	47.0	29.6-65.2
Guilford	38	13	26.2	14.7-42.4	2	5.1	1.3-18.7	3	10.6	3.2-29.6	4	11.6	4.2-28.3	16	46.4	30.1-63.5
Iredell	53	11	17.9	9.5-31.2	6	12.7	5.4-27.1	4	18.0	5.3-46.0	19	33.2	20.5-48.9	13	18.2	10.0-30.9
Johnston	57	12	19.0	10.1-33.0	4	7.0	2.6-17.7	10	17.2	8.9-30.4	8	11.5	5.5-22.6	23	45.3	31.0-60.3
Mecklenburg	76	21	25.6	16.8-37.0	4	6.3	2.3-16.5	11	15.4	8.6-26.0	11	16.1	9.0-27.1	29	36.6	26.0-48.7
New Hanover	36	10	35.4	18.7-56.6	2	8.6	2.0-30.5	2	5.4	1.3-19.4	7	18.4	8.5-35.5	15	32.2	18.3-50.2
Onslow	41	9	19.1	9.7-34.3	2	4.1	1.0-15.1	3	8.1	2.6-22.8	6	13.3	5.9-27.4	21	55.3	38.5-71.0
Orange	44	13	31.2	18.5-47.5	0	0.0	. - .	8	15.8	7.7-29.7	4	7.9	2.9-20.0	19	45.1	30.2-61.0
Pitt	43	10	22.7	12.2-38.3	1	2.3	0.3-14.8	8	20.2	10.2-36.1	10	23.5	12.9-38.9	14	31.3	18.8-47.2
Randolph	32	9	19.1	9.4-34.8	2	12.0	2.7-40.4	8	25.8	12.7-45.3	3	9.7	3.0-27.4	10	33.5	18.2-53.2
Robeson	42	7	22.6	10.8-41.3	5	11.4	4.6-25.7	3	6.3	2.0-18.3	14	29.9	17.6-46.2	13	29.7	16.7-47.2
Rowan	41	8	22.4	10.3-42.0	5	9.2	3.4-22.8	7	16.4	7.1-33.5	6	12.4	5.1-27.3	15	39.7	24.2-57.5
Union	32	4	15.3	5.8-34.7	1	4.4	0.6-25.5	4	13.5	4.8-32.4	10	29.0	15.1-48.3	13	37.8	22.3-56.2
Wake	68	19	27.2	17.1-40.2	3	5.7	1.8-16.6	6	8.7	3.8-18.9	10	15.1	8.2-26.3	30	43.3	31.4-56.1
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	27	6	18.9	8.4-37.3	2	8.2	2.0-27.5	4	15.5	5.4-37.0	3	13.0	4.1-34.7	12	44.4	26.4-64.0
Northeast Partnership II	37	7	22.7	10.7-41.8	4	12.2	4.5-28.9	8	19.3	9.2-36.1	7	16.2	7.3-32.4	11	29.5	14.6-50.7
Northeast Partnership I	36	4	8.9	2.9-23.9	4	10.4	3.6-26.8	6	17.0	6.8-36.4	11	44.1	20.9-70.2	11	19.6	9.1-37.2
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	25	4	17.1	6.2-39.0	2	10.9	2.7-34.9	3	10.9	3.3-30.1	9	40.1	21.7-61.8	7	21.1	9.6-40.1
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	36	9	22.2	11.0-39.8	1	5.0	0.7-28.2	2	5.0	1.1-19.6	12	26.3	14.0-43.9	12	41.4	24.1-61.2
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	31	8	15.7	7.3-30.7	4	20.4	7.7-43.9	1	2.6	0.4-16.5	5	16.8	6.7-36.0	13	44.5	26.7-63.9
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	45	13	33.7	20.6-50.0	3	7.2	2.2-20.8	6	13.5	5.9-27.9	7	15.1	7.1-29.4	16	30.5	18.7-45.6
Chatham/Lee/Moore	35	10	32.0	17.3-51.4	4	7.6	2.7-19.3	2	3.6	0.9-14.0	7	22.7	10.6-41.9	12	34.1	18.5-54.2
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	67	9	9.2	4.4-18.2	8	17.8	8.6-33.3	7	11.5	5.2-23.6	20	28.2	17.7-41.8	23	33.3	21.8-47.3
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	26	6	22.4	10.0-42.9	1	4.6	0.6-26.3	3	13.9	4.2-37.3	9	30.3	15.2-51.3	7	28.8	13.6-50.9
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	30	7	24.6	11.2-45.8	5	19.9	8.2-40.8	1	3.6	0.5-21.8	3	13.8	4.5-35.4	14	38.1	22.1-57.2
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	48	7	16.1	7.6-30.9	3	7.3	2.3-21.3	7	16.9	7.7-33.2	11	20.2	10.8-34.8	20	39.4	25.4-55.5
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	42	6	12.6	4.8-29.4	4	8.7	2.5-26.4	5	16.0	6.7-33.8	13	31.3	17.6-49.2	14	31.4	18.0-48.7
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	86	15	17.2	10.0-27.9	8	9.0	4.4-17.6	16	18.2	10.6-29.3	21	29.8	16.8-47.2	26	25.7	16.2-38.3
No	1,332	295	21.9	19.4-24.7	96	8.6	6.9-10.7	159	12.2	10.2-14.5	263	19.1	16.7-21.7	519	38.3	35.2-41.5
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	469	100	20.7	16.8-25.3	35	9.2	6.4-13.1	53	11.1	8.2-14.9	104	22.1	17.4-27.6	177	36.9	31.7-42.4
Piedmont	820	186	22.9	19.7-26.6	59	8.6	6.4-11.3	105	12.7	10.2-15.7	152	17.7	14.9-21.0	318	38.1	34.2-42.2
Western NC	129	24	17.5	11.2-26.3	10	7.4	3.5-14.9	17	15.2	9.0-24.6	28	23.7	16.1-33.6	50	36.2	27.3-46.2
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	73	12	15.0	7.8-27.0	4	6.1	1.7-19.2	13	17.6	9.6-30.1	18	26.1	15.9-39.8	26	35.2	23.8-48.5
Northwest	300	61	21.1	16.1-27.1	30	11.6	7.8-16.8	37	13.9	9.4-20.2	60	18.2	13.7-23.7	112	35.3	29.1-41.9
Charlotte	212	36	18.3	13.0-25.2	18	10.1	6.1-16.5	26	13.8	9.2-20.3	39	16.9	11.8-23.6	93	40.8	33.3-48.7
Greensboro	170	45	22.7	16.3-30.7	8	7.0	3.3-13.9	25	12.9	7.9-20.4	27	16.7	11.1-24.5	65	40.7	32.0-50.1
Southern Regional	143	27	18.1	12.2-26.1	10	8.2	3.8-16.5	14	11.5	6.3-20.2	40	24.1	17.0-33.0	52	38.1	28.8-48.4
Coastal	66	16	22.7	12.7-37.1	5	10.4	4.2-23.3	2	2.8	0.7-10.4	13	19.4	11.1-31.7	30	44.9	31.5-59.0
Wake	218	63	29.9	23.0-37.7	13	6.1	3.2-11.3	26	10.3	6.6-15.8	33	16.4	11.3-23.1	83	37.4	30.1-45.3
Area L	47	9	20.5	10.6-36.0	7	17.3	8.3-32.5	6	13.6	5.8-28.5	10	24.0	13.0-39.9	15	24.7	14.6-38.5
Eastern	173	37	19.8	13.9-27.4	9	6.6	3.2-13.2	23	12.3	7.9-18.8	41	26.3	17.4-37.6	63	35.0	26.8-44.3

Total
Respond.^

Want to get pregnant

Had hysterectomy

Believe can't get pregnant

Vasectomy/Tubes tied

Other

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

1,418

310

21.6

19.2-24.3

104

8.6

6.9-10.7

175

12.5

10.6-14.8

284

19.7

17.3-22.4

545

37.5

34.5-40.6

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

26.3

11.3-50.0

10.2

1.5-45.9

10.5

3.7-26.4

21.7

9.0-43.6

31.3

15.8-52.5

Buncombe

20.6

9.2-39.8

0.0

. - .

21.3

10.4-38.8

14.0

5.7-30.5

44.1

26.8-63.0

Cabarrus

13.8

5.5-30.4

4.5

0.6-25.7

12.1

4.4-29.1

22.6

11.0-41.1

46.9

29.6-65.1

Catawba

11.7

4.3-27.9

14.1

5.8-30.4

6.7

2.6-16.3

14.3

6.5-28.3

53.3

37.4-68.5

Cumberland

14.9

6.8-29.8

8.9

2.1-31.4

12.1

3.2-36.8

23.2

11.1-42.3

40.7

24.7-59.0

Davidson

25.1

13.7-41.6

7.1

1.5-27.4

29.8

17.8-45.5

17.3

8.8-31.2

20.6

11.1-34.9

Durham

39.4

23.8-57.5

4.3

0.6-25.1

4.5

1.0-17.5

13.2

4.4-33.5

38.6

23.6-56.1

Forsyth

23.2

12.0-39.9

19.2

8.0-39.3

2.8

0.4-17.7

6.7

2.5-17.2

48.1

31.8-64.8

Gaston

11.4

3.5-31.0

15.8

6.1-35.0

12.3

4.0-32.3

13.5

4.8-32.8

47.0

29.6-65.2

Guilford

26.2

14.7-42.4

5.1

1.3-18.7

10.6

3.2-29.6

11.6

4.2-28.3

46.4

30.1-63.5

Iredell

17.9

9.5-31.2

12.7

5.4-27.1

18.0

5.3-46.0

33.2

20.5-48.9

18.2

10.0-30.9

Johnston

19.0

10.1-33.0

7.0

2.6-17.7

17.2

8.9-30.4

11.5

5.5-22.6

45.3

31.0-60.3

Mecklenburg

25.6

16.8-37.0

6.3

2.3-16.5

15.4

8.6-26.0

16.1

9.0-27.1

36.6

26.0-48.7

New Hanover

35.4

18.7-56.6

8.6

2.0-30.5

5.4

1.3-19.4

18.4

8.5-35.5

32.2

18.3-50.2

Onslow

19.1

9.7-34.3

4.1

1.0-15.1

8.1

2.6-22.8

13.3

5.9-27.4

55.3

38.5-71.0

Orange

31.2

18.5-47.5

0.0

. - .

15.8

7.7-29.7

7.9

2.9-20.0

45.1

30.2-61.0

Pitt

22.7

12.2-38.3

2.3

0.3-14.8

20.2

10.2-36.1

23.5

12.9-38.9

31.3

18.8-47.2

Randolph

19.1

9.4-34.8

12.0

2.7-40.4

25.8

12.7-45.3

9.7

3.0-27.4

33.5

18.2-53.2

Robeson

22.6

10.8-41.3

11.4

4.6-25.7

6.3

2.0-18.3

29.9

17.6-46.2

29.7

16.7-47.2

Rowan

22.4

10.3-42.0

9.2

3.4-22.8

16.4

7.1-33.5

12.4

5.1-27.3

39.7

24.2-57.5

Union

15.3

5.8-34.7

4.4

0.6-25.5

13.5

4.8-32.4

29.0

15.1-48.3

37.8

22.3-56.2

Wake

27.2

17.1-40.2

5.7

1.8-16.6

8.7

3.8-18.9

15.1

8.2-26.3

43.3

31.4-56.1

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

18.9

8.4-37.3

8.2

2.0-27.5

15.5

5.4-37.0

13.0

4.1-34.7

44.4

26.4-64.0

Northeast Partnership II

22.7

10.7-41.8

12.2

4.5-28.9

19.3

9.2-36.1

16.2

7.3-32.4

29.5

14.6-50.7

Northeast Partnership I

8.9

2.9-23.9

10.4

3.6-26.8

17.0

6.8-36.4

44.1

20.9-70.2

19.6

9.1-37.2

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

17.1

6.2-39.0

10.9

2.7-34.9

10.9

3.3-30.1

40.1

21.7-61.8

21.1

9.6-40.1

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

22.2

11.0-39.8

5.0

0.7-28.2

5.0

1.1-19.6

26.3

14.0-43.9

41.4

24.1-61.2

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

15.7

7.3-30.7

20.4

7.7-43.9

2.6

0.4-16.5

16.8

6.7-36.0

44.5

26.7-63.9

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

33.7

20.6-50.0

7.2

2.2-20.8

13.5

5.9-27.9

15.1

7.1-29.4

30.5

18.7-45.6

Chatham/Lee/Moore

32.0

17.3-51.4

7.6

2.7-19.3

3.6

0.9-14.0

22.7

10.6-41.9

34.1

18.5-54.2

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

9.2

4.4-18.2

17.8

8.6-33.3

11.5

5.2-23.6

28.2

17.7-41.8

33.3

21.8-47.3

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

22.4

10.0-42.9

4.6

0.6-26.3

13.9

4.2-37.3

30.3

15.2-51.3

28.8

13.6-50.9

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes

24.6

11.2-45.8

19.9

8.2-40.8

3.6

0.5-21.8

13.8

4.5-35.4

38.1

22.1-57.2

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

16.1

7.6-30.9

7.3

2.3-21.3

16.9

7.7-33.2

20.2

10.8-34.8

39.4

25.4-55.5

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

12.6

4.8-29.4

8.7

2.5-26.4

16.0

6.7-33.8

31.3

17.6-49.2

31.4

18.0-48.7

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

17.2

10.0-27.9

9.0

4.4-17.6

18.2

10.6-29.3

29.8

16.8-47.2

25.7

16.2-38.3

1,332

295

21.9

19.4-24.7

8.6

6.9-10.7

159

12.2

10.2-14.5

263

19.1

16.7-21.7

519

38.3

35.2-41.5

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

469

100

20.7

16.8-25.3

9.2

6.4-13.1

11.1

8.2-14.9

104

22.1

17.4-27.6

177

36.9

31.7-42.4

Piedmont

820

186

22.9

19.7-26.6

8.6

6.4-11.3

105

12.7

10.2-15.7

152

17.7

14.9-21.0

318

38.1

34.2-42.2

Western NC

129

17.5

11.2-26.3

7.4

3.5-14.9

15.2

9.0-24.6

23.7

16.1-33.6

36.2

27.3-46.2

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

15.0

7.8-27.0

6.1

1.7-19.2

17.6

9.6-30.1

26.1

15.9-39.8

35.2

23.8-48.5

Northwest

300

21.1

16.1-27.1

11.6

7.8-16.8

13.9

9.4-20.2

18.2

13.7-23.7

112

35.3

29.1-41.9

Charlotte

212

18.3

13.0-25.2

10.1

6.1-16.5

13.8

9.2-20.3

16.9

11.8-23.6

40.8

33.3-48.7

Greensboro

170

22.7

16.3-30.7

7.0

3.3-13.9

12.9

7.9-20.4

16.7

11.1-24.5

40.7

32.0-50.1

Southern Regional

143

18.1

12.2-26.1

8.2

3.8-16.5

11.5

6.3-20.2

24.1

17.0-33.0

38.1

28.8-48.4

Coastal

22.7

12.7-37.1

10.4

4.2-23.3

2.8

0.7-10.4

19.4

11.1-31.7

44.9

31.5-59.0

Wake

218

29.9

23.0-37.7

6.1

3.2-11.3

10.3

6.6-15.8

16.4

11.3-23.1

37.4

30.1-45.3

Area L

20.5

10.6-36.0

17.3

8.3-32.5

13.6

5.8-28.5

24.0

13.0-39.9

24.7

14.6-38.5

Eastern

173

19.8

13.9-27.4

6.6

3.2-13.2

12.3

7.9-18.8

26.3

17.4-37.6

35.0

26.8-44.3

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

First five most frequent response categorie s presented here. OTHER category was formed from the remaining responses.

^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.

****Click here to learn about other NC Area Health Education Centers

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