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Total Respond.^ |
Yes | No | |||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 14,627 | 2,623 | 18.2 | 17.4-19.0 | 12,004 | 81.8 | 81.0-82.6 |
COUNTY/REGIONS*** | |||||||
Alamance | 395 | 88 | 21.1 | 17.0-25.8 | 307 | 78.9 | 74.2-83.0 |
Buncombe | 359 | 73 | 19.4 | 15.2-24.3 | 286 | 80.6 | 75.7-84.8 |
Cabarrus | 410 | 82 | 19.9 | 15.9-24.5 | 328 | 80.1 | 75.5-84.1 |
Catawba | 365 | 69 | 21.6 | 16.3-27.9 | 296 | 78.4 | 72.1-83.7 |
Cumberland | 432 | 55 | 11.8 | 8.9-15.4 | 377 | 88.2 | 84.6-91.1 |
Davidson | 375 | 90 | 25.6 | 20.4-31.6 | 285 | 74.4 | 68.4-79.6 |
Durham | 403 | 70 | 16.8 | 12.9-21.5 | 333 | 83.2 | 78.5-87.1 |
Forsyth | 437 | 87 | 19.6 | 15.8-24.0 | 350 | 80.4 | 76.0-84.2 |
Gaston | 365 | 72 | 19.7 | 15.5-24.7 | 293 | 80.3 | 75.3-84.5 |
Guilford | 413 | 68 | 17.0 | 13.2-21.7 | 345 | 83.0 | 78.3-86.8 |
Iredell | 418 | 87 | 20.8 | 16.7-25.5 | 331 | 79.2 | 74.5-83.3 |
Johnston | 472 | 91 | 19.5 | 15.3-24.5 | 381 | 80.5 | 75.5-84.7 |
Mecklenburg | 621 | 120 | 19.7 | 16.5-23.4 | 501 | 80.3 | 76.6-83.5 |
New Hanover | 368 | 91 | 26.8 | 21.8-32.4 | 277 | 73.2 | 67.6-78.2 |
Onslow | 380 | 80 | 21.9 | 17.7-26.9 | 300 | 78.1 | 73.1-82.3 |
Orange | 405 | 78 | 20.0 | 15.8-25.0 | 327 | 80.0 | 75.0-84.2 |
Pitt | 372 | 76 | 18.6 | 14.7-23.3 | 296 | 81.4 | 76.7-85.3 |
Randolph | 345 | 52 | 13.9 | 10.3-18.6 | 293 | 86.1 | 81.4-89.7 |
Robeson | 369 | 26 | 8.6 | 5.5-13.3 | 343 | 91.4 | 86.7-94.5 |
Rowan | 441 | 79 | 17.0 | 13.5-21.2 | 362 | 83.0 | 78.8-86.5 |
Union | 421 | 94 | 22.5 | 18.3-27.4 | 327 | 77.5 | 72.6-81.7 |
Wake | 585 | 126 | 20.3 | 16.8-24.2 | 459 | 79.7 | 75.8-83.2 |
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico | 348 | 66 | 17.7 | 13.8-22.4 | 282 | 82.3 | 77.6-86.2 |
Northeast Partnership II | 469 | 52 | 10.3 | 7.6-13.6 | 417 | 89.7 | 86.4-92.4 |
Northeast Partnership I | 390 | 33 | 8.8 | 6.1-12.4 | 357 | 91.2 | 87.6-93.9 |
Franklin/Nash/Wilson | 356 | 58 | 17.3 | 13.2-22.2 | 298 | 82.7 | 77.8-86.8 |
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne | 452 | 81 | 17.7 | 14.1-22.1 | 371 | 82.3 | 77.9-85.9 |
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender | 397 | 83 | 20.9 | 16.8-25.7 | 314 | 79.1 | 74.3-83.2 |
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance | 392 | 50 | 13.2 | 9.9-17.3 | 342 | 86.8 | 82.7-90.1 |
Chatham/Lee/Moore | 445 | 69 | 15.7 | 12.1-20.0 | 376 | 84.3 | 80.0-87.9 |
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly | 524 | 77 | 14.6 | 11.4-18.6 | 447 | 85.4 | 81.4-88.6 |
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin | 354 | 66 | 19.8 | 15.5-25.0 | 288 | 80.2 | 75.0-84.5 |
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes | 351 | 59 | 16.4 | 12.3-21.5 | 292 | 83.6 | 78.5-87.7 |
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln | 419 | 82 | 20.8 | 16.6-25.8 | 337 | 79.2 | 74.2-83.4 |
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 579 | 93 | 18.1 | 14.5-22.3 | 486 | 81.9 | 77.7-85.5 |
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP** | |||||||
Yes | 968 | 110 | 11.6 | 9.4-14.1 | 858 | 88.4 | 85.9-90.6 |
No | 13,659 | 2,513 | 18.6 | 17.8-19.5 | 11,146 | 81.4 | 80.5-82.2 |
NC REGIONS*** | |||||||
Eastern NC | 4,893 | 805 | 16.5 | 15.3-17.8 | 4,088 | 83.5 | 82.2-84.7 |
Piedmont | 8,143 | 1,535 | 19.0 | 18.0-20.1 | 6,608 | 81.0 | 79.9-82.0 |
Western NC | 1,591 | 283 | 18.6 | 16.4-21.1 | 1,308 | 81.4 | 78.9-83.6 |
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)**** | |||||||
Mountain AHEC | 917 | 160 | 18.0 | 15.1-21.3 | 757 | 82.0 | 78.7-84.9 |
Northwest | 2,839 | 562 | 20.4 | 18.5-22.3 | 2,277 | 79.6 | 77.7-81.5 |
Charlotte | 2,159 | 424 | 19.7 | 17.7-21.9 | 1,735 | 80.3 | 78.1-82.3 |
Greensboro | 1,898 | 344 | 17.8 | 15.7-20.1 | 1,554 | 82.2 | 79.9-84.3 |
Southern Regional | 1,534 | 201 | 14.1 | 12.2-16.4 | 1,333 | 85.9 | 83.6-87.8 |
Coastal | 737 | 175 | 23.9 | 20.6-27.6 | 562 | 76.1 | 72.4-79.4 |
Wake | 2,012 | 362 | 18.4 | 16.3-20.8 | 1,650 | 81.6 | 79.2-83.7 |
Area L | 580 | 64 | 12.1 | 9.4-15.5 | 516 | 87.9 | 84.5-90.6 |
Eastern | 1,844 | 323 | 17.1 | 15.1-19.2 | 1,521 | 82.9 | 80.8-84.9 |
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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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