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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover County

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury, for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,735 9,890 68.4 67.5-69.4 1,281 9.0 8.5- 9.6 1,293 8.7 8.1- 9.3 953 6.0 5.6- 6.5 1,318 7.9 7.4- 8.4
-New Hanover County 371 245 68.3 62.7-73.5 32 9.4 6.4-13.5 38 9.7 6.6-14.0 27 6.3 4.1- 9.6 29 6.3 4.2- 9.4
GENDER
Male 146 110 75.5 66.7-82.5 15 10.8 6.2-18.0 11 7.8 3.8-15.4 5 3.0 1.2- 7.2 5 3.0 1.2- 7.2
Female 225 135 61.5 54.1-68.4 17 8.0 4.9-13.0 27 11.5 7.5-17.2 22 9.5 5.8-15.0 24 9.6 6.1-14.7
RACE
White 304 204 69.7 63.5-75.2 28 9.4 6.3-13.6 33 10.1 6.7-15.0 19 5.7 3.4- 9.5 20 5.1 3.1- 8.3
Other 64 38 61.5 46.5-74.5 4 9.7 3.2-25.4 5 8.1 3.1-19.7 8 8.8 3.9-18.8 9 11.9 5.8-23.1
AGE
18-44 141 95 69.0 59.5-77.1 18 12.5 7.7-19.6 17 12.0 6.7-20.6 7 5.1 2.1-11.6 4 1.4 0.5- 4.0
45+ 229 150 68.0 61.0-74.4 13 6.6 3.5-12.1 21 7.9 4.9-12.5 20 7.3 4.5-11.5 25 10.2 6.6-15.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 112 73 67.3 56.8-76.3 6 5.9 2.5-13.3 6 4.6 1.9-11.0 11 9.9 5.1-18.4 16 12.2 7.1-20.2
Some College + 258 171 68.7 61.9-74.8 26 11.1 7.3-16.5 32 12.2 8.1-18.1 16 4.5 2.6- 7.7 13 3.5 1.9- 6.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 109 63.6 55.0-71.4 13 8.2 4.6-14.3 21 12.5 7.4-20.3 17 8.2 4.9-13.3 16 7.5 4.4-12.7
$50,000+ 105 76 74.6 64.8-82.4 13 11.6 6.6-19.6 11 8.3 4.3-15.2 4 4.9 1.6-14.0 1 0.6 0.1- 4.1

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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, 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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