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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Orange 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
-Orange County 408 284 70.9 65.5-75.7 53 12.2 9.2-16.2 39 8.9 6.1-12.9 18 4.4 2.5- 7.5 14 3.6 1.8- 6.9
GENDER
Male 151 116 76.7 68.1-83.6 14 9.3 5.4-15.7 10 4.6 2.3- 9.0 5 4.7 1.8-11.7 6 4.7 1.7-12.1
Female 257 168 65.7 58.7-72.2 39 14.8 10.6-20.3 29 12.8 8.2-19.3 13 4.1 2.3- 7.1 8 2.6 1.2- 5.4
RACE
White 320 223 71.6 65.6-76.9 44 12.8 9.3-17.4 28 7.6 4.9-11.5 14 4.2 2.3- 7.5 11 3.8 1.8- 8.1
Other 85 58 67.9 54.8-78.6 9 10.7 5.4-20.4 11 13.5 6.5-26.1 4 5.0 1.3-16.9 3 2.9 0.9- 9.2
AGE
18-44 195 139 73.9 66.4-80.1 31 15.6 10.8-22.1 17 6.6 3.8-11.1 4 2.8 0.8- 8.7 4 1.2 0.4- 3.3
45+ 212 144 67.6 59.6-74.8 22 8.7 5.5-13.6 22 11.5 6.9-18.5 14 6.0 3.3-10.8 10 6.1 2.8-12.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 83 56 66.1 52.3-77.6 7 7.7 3.3-17.2 9 14.7 6.9-28.7 6 4.2 1.8- 9.4 5 7.3 2.2-21.6
Some College + 325 228 72.3 66.6-77.4 46 13.6 10.0-18.2 30 7.2 4.8-10.6 12 4.4 2.2- 8.5 9 2.5 1.2- 4.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 150 90 62.0 52.1-70.9 23 14.5 9.2-22.0 20 11.8 6.7-20.1 7 4.7 1.7-12.0 10 7.1 3.1-15.6
$50,000+ 169 128 76.4 68.7-82.7 18 10.2 6.2-16.4 11 6.2 3.2-11.5 9 5.5 2.6-11.1 3 1.7 0.5- 5.3

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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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