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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln Counties

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 16,914 11,096 67.9 67.0-68.9 1,575 9.9 9.3-10.5 1,602 9.4 8.8-10.0 1,262 6.6 6.1- 7.1 1,379 6.2 5.8- 6.6
-Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln 493 309 66.2 60.9-71.1 42 7.9 5.5-11.0 47 9.2 6.6-12.7 36 7.2 4.8-10.6 59 9.6 7.1-12.8
GENDER
Male 174 122 73.0 64.5-80.1 4 2.1 0.7- 6.4 20 10.0 5.9-16.3 11 6.7 3.2-13.3 17 8.3 4.8-13.8
Female 319 187 59.9 53.4-66.1 38 13.1 9.2-18.3 27 8.5 5.5-12.8 25 7.7 5.0-11.5 42 10.8 7.7-15.0
RACE
White 435 272 65.7 60.1-70.9 36 7.7 5.3-11.1 40 9.5 6.6-13.5 33 7.8 5.2-11.6 54 9.3 6.8-12.4
Other 58 37 69.3 53.1-81.8 6 8.9 3.5-21.0 7 6.9 2.9-15.4 3 2.8 0.8- 9.6 5 12.1 4.6-28.3
AGE
18-44 175 108 67.9 59.3-75.4 23 10.7 6.7-16.5 19 8.3 4.8-13.7 15 8.0 4.4-14.1 10 5.2 2.6-10.1
45+ 317 201 64.6 58.4-70.4 18 4.6 2.8- 7.5 28 10.2 6.6-15.3 21 6.4 4.0-10.3 49 14.2 10.4-19.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 278 164 64.3 57.0-71.0 19 6.6 3.8-11.1 25 8.1 5.1-12.6 25 8.9 5.5-14.1 45 12.2 8.6-16.9
Some College + 213 143 68.6 60.9-75.5 23 9.8 6.3-15.0 22 10.9 6.7-17.3 11 4.8 2.4- 9.1 14 5.9 3.3-10.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 309 177 59.6 52.6-66.2 27 8.0 5.2-12.1 32 11.3 7.5-16.6 28 9.0 5.7-13.8 45 12.2 8.7-16.8
$50,000+ 120 86 74.9 65.4-82.4 10 7.1 3.8-13.1 12 7.6 3.9-14.3 4 4.2 1.4-12.3 8 6.2 2.9-12.7

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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: 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.

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