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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico 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
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
-Carteret/Curr./Craven/Dare/Hyde/Paml. 220 99 35.2 28.5-42.6 70 33.9 26.9-41.7 26 13.7 8.6-21.0 10 7.5 3.4-16.1 15 9.7 5.5-16.5
GENDER
Male 99 31 24.8 16.9-34.9 33 34.3 24.5-45.8 15 13.3 7.6-22.3 7 11.1 4.3-25.6 13 16.4 9.2-27.8
Female 121 68 48.2 37.7-58.7 37 33.4 24.2-44.0 11 14.1 6.5-27.9 3 3.1 0.9-10.2 2 1.3 0.3- 5.1
RACE
White 199 89 36.0 29.0-43.7 63 33.8 26.5-41.9 24 14.1 8.6-22.1 9 5.6 2.7-11.2 14 10.6 5.9-18.2
Other 19 8 25.7 10.4-50.9 7 36.7 15.6-64.5 2 11.0 2.5-37.3 1 23.5 3.9-69.9 1 3.1 0.4-19.9
AGE
18-44 71 24 25.5 16.5-37.2 20 29.1 18.8-42.2 13 19.2 10.3-33.2 6 13.7 5.5-29.9 8 12.5 5.7-25.4
45+ 149 75 44.1 35.5-53.0 50 38.3 29.7-47.6 13 8.5 4.7-15.0 4 1.9 0.7- 5.4 7 7.1 3.3-14.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 59 27 32.1 20.2-46.9 14 27.4 15.7-43.3 7 13.1 4.6-32.0 3 15.6 4.6-41.2 8 11.8 5.6-23.2
Some College + 161 72 36.4 28.7-45.0 56 36.5 28.3-45.5 19 13.9 8.3-22.2 7 4.3 1.9- 9.8 7 8.9 4.0-18.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 93 42 34.0 24.1-45.7 22 22.4 14.1-33.6 15 16.0 9.1-26.6 7 15.0 6.1-32.3 7 12.6 5.4-26.6
$50,000+ 93 39 36.3 26.3-47.7 38 44.7 33.6-56.5 7 7.4 2.5-19.7 3 2.7 0.8- 8.7 6 8.8 4.0-18.5

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* 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.

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