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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 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
-Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 423 273 64.7 58.9-70.1 44 10.4 7.4-14.3 32 9.1 5.7-14.1 36 7.2 4.9-10.5 38 8.6 5.8-12.5
GENDER
Male 138 99 68.2 57.7-77.1 9 6.4 3.1-12.6 11 11.1 5.2-22.1 7 5.0 2.2-10.8 12 9.4 4.7-17.8
Female 285 174 62.3 55.4-68.7 35 13.1 9.1-18.7 21 7.7 4.6-12.7 29 8.8 5.7-13.4 26 8.1 5.2-12.4
RACE
White 341 228 65.9 59.3-71.9 36 10.3 7.1-14.7 26 9.2 5.6-15.0 24 6.8 4.2-10.7 27 7.8 4.8-12.4
Other 80 45 61.5 48.4-73.1 7 9.1 3.8-20.4 6 8.7 3.0-22.5 12 9.3 4.9-16.8 10 11.4 5.7-21.7
AGE
18-44 122 82 67.8 56.5-77.2 18 12.7 7.6-20.6 11 10.8 4.7-22.9 5 2.8 1.0- 7.4 6 5.9 2.2-15.2
45+ 300 191 62.8 56.3-68.9 26 8.9 5.8-13.6 20 7.8 4.8-12.4 31 10.1 6.7-15.0 32 10.3 7.0-15.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 211 129 60.6 52.4-68.2 19 10.8 6.5-17.5 10 5.1 2.6- 9.8 23 9.6 5.9-15.3 30 13.9 9.0-20.9
Some College + 212 144 68.6 60.3-75.9 25 10.0 6.5-15.0 22 13.0 7.4-21.9 13 5.0 2.7- 8.9 8 3.5 1.6- 7.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 259 156 60.9 53.7-67.6 25 10.7 6.9-16.3 16 6.1 3.5-10.3 29 9.5 6.3-14.1 33 12.8 8.5-18.9
$50,000+ 105 80 74.4 61.5-84.0 12 8.7 4.8-15.5 11 13.7 6.1-27.8 2 3.2 0.6-14.6 0 0.0 . - .

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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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