BRFSS 2005 - Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties: (One drink is equivalent to a 12 ounce beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine, or a drink with one shot of liquor. <br> During the past 30 days, on the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*)

	Total Respond.^	Only one	Two	Three	Four	Five or more
North Carolina	6,537	3,065	41.3	39.7-42.8	2,041	32.1	30.6-33.7	726	12.8	11.6-14.0	286	4.8	4.1- 5.6	419	9.0	8.0-10.2
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	121	56	37.0	26.8-48.4	34	24.9	16.7-35.4	18	20.1	10.3-35.4	4	3.4	1.1-10.6	9	14.7	6.9-28.6
GENDER
Male	62	23	29.8	17.7-45.7	22	27.2	15.9-42.6	8	21.7	8.5-45.3	4	5.5	1.7-16.6	5	15.7	5.7-36.8
Female	59	33	49.0	34.9-63.2	12	20.9	11.5-34.7	10	17.2	8.7-31.3	0	0.0	. - .	4	12.9	4.6-31.3
RACE
White	110	54	39.0	28.1-51.2	31	26.4	17.4-37.9	15	17.5	8.0-34.1	2	2.5	0.5-12.0	8	14.5	6.4-29.8
Other	11	2	20.5	4.0-61.7	3	12.8	3.3-39.1	3	39.9	10.7-78.5	2	10.7	2.2-39.3	1	16.1	2.2-62.1
AGE
18-44	49	13	20.6	10.3-37.0	14	23.0	12.2-39.2	14	30.2	14.7-52.1	2	4.4	1.0-17.7	6	21.8	9.3-43.0
45+	72	43	60.6	47.6-72.2	20	27.5	17.5-40.5	4	5.4	1.9-14.1	2	2.0	0.5- 7.9	3	4.5	1.4-13.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	33	17	44.5	25.2-65.7	4	8.0	2.8-20.7	7	25.1	10.0-50.2	1	1.4	0.2- 9.6	4	21.0	8.1-44.4
Some College +	87	38	33.1	22.2-46.1	30	32.3	21.0-46.2	11	18.1	7.1-38.9	3	4.3	1.2-14.9	5	12.2	3.9-32.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	73	31	34.3	21.4-50.1	21	21.3	12.7-33.4	15	29.3	14.5-50.2	2	2.0	0.4- 8.2	4	13.2	4.1-35.3
$50,000+	38	23	52.0	33.4-70.1	10	32.1	16.0-54.0	2	5.3	1.2-19.9	1	6.3	0.9-33.2	2	4.3	1.0-16.8

* This question was asked only of respondents who reported drinking at least one drink in the last month.

^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: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
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.

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties

Alcohol Consumption

One drink is equivalent to a 12 ounce beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine, or a drink with one shot of liquor.
During the past 30 days, on the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*

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	Total Respond.^	Only one			Two			Three			Four			Five or more
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	6,537	3,065	41.3	39.7-42.8	2,041	32.1	30.6-33.7	726	12.8	11.6-14.0	286	4.8	4.1- 5.6	419	9.0	8.0-10.2
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	121	56	37.0	26.8-48.4	34	24.9	16.7-35.4	18	20.1	10.3-35.4	4	3.4	1.1-10.6	9	14.7	6.9-28.6
GENDER
Male	62	23	29.8	17.7-45.7	22	27.2	15.9-42.6	8	21.7	8.5-45.3	4	5.5	1.7-16.6	5	15.7	5.7-36.8
Female	59	33	49.0	34.9-63.2	12	20.9	11.5-34.7	10	17.2	8.7-31.3	0	0.0	. - .	4	12.9	4.6-31.3
RACE
White	110	54	39.0	28.1-51.2	31	26.4	17.4-37.9	15	17.5	8.0-34.1	2	2.5	0.5-12.0	8	14.5	6.4-29.8
Other	11	2	20.5	4.0-61.7	3	12.8	3.3-39.1	3	39.9	10.7-78.5	2	10.7	2.2-39.3	1	16.1	2.2-62.1
AGE
18-44	49	13	20.6	10.3-37.0	14	23.0	12.2-39.2	14	30.2	14.7-52.1	2	4.4	1.0-17.7	6	21.8	9.3-43.0
45+	72	43	60.6	47.6-72.2	20	27.5	17.5-40.5	4	5.4	1.9-14.1	2	2.0	0.5- 7.9	3	4.5	1.4-13.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	33	17	44.5	25.2-65.7	4	8.0	2.8-20.7	7	25.1	10.0-50.2	1	1.4	0.2- 9.6	4	21.0	8.1-44.4
Some College +	87	38	33.1	22.2-46.1	30	32.3	21.0-46.2	11	18.1	7.1-38.9	3	4.3	1.2-14.9	5	12.2	3.9-32.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	73	31	34.3	21.4-50.1	21	21.3	12.7-33.4	15	29.3	14.5-50.2	2	2.0	0.4- 8.2	4	13.2	4.1-35.3
$50,000+	38	23	52.0	33.4-70.1	10	32.1	16.0-54.0	2	5.3	1.2-19.9	1	6.3	0.9-33.2	2	4.3	1.0-16.8

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties

Alcohol Consumption

One drink is equivalent to a 12 ounce beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine, or a drink with one shot of liquor. During the past 30 days, on the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*

One drink is equivalent to a 12 ounce beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine, or a drink with one shot of liquor.
During the past 30 days, on the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?*