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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico Counties

Alcohol Consumption

Considering all types of alcoholic beverages, how many times during the past 30 days did you have 5 or more drinks on an occasion?*

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  Total
Respond.^
None Once Twice 3-7 times 8-30 times
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,536 5,206 74.9 73.3-76.4 582 10.3 9.4-11.4 297 5.8 5.0- 6.7 312 6.2 5.4- 7.2 139 2.8 2.2- 3.5
-Carteret/Curr./Craven/Dare/Hyde/Paml. 221 159 63.9 55.3-71.8 27 16.4 10.3-25.1 16 8.4 4.9-13.9 16 9.6 5.5-16.2 3 1.7 0.5- 5.3
GENDER
Male 100 59 55.5 43.7-66.8 15 17.6 9.5-30.3 11 9.6 5.0-17.9 12 14.2 7.6-24.9 3 3.0 1.0- 9.3
Female 121 100 74.8 62.1-84.4 12 14.8 7.0-28.4 5 6.7 2.7-15.7 4 3.7 1.2-10.7 0 0.0 . - .
RACE
White 198 143 65.1 56.3-73.0 23 14.2 8.7-22.3 14 8.2 4.6-14.2 15 10.5 5.9-17.9 3 2.0 0.6- 6.2
Other 21 14 54.9 27.8-79.4 4 31.1 9.9-64.8 2 9.7 2.3-33.0 1 4.4 0.6-26.2 0 0.0 . - .
AGE
18-44 73 43 51.2 37.9-64.4 13 24.7 13.8-40.2 7 9.6 4.4-19.7 10 14.5 7.3-26.7 0 0.0 . - .
45+ 148 116 76.2 67.4-83.2 14 8.3 4.7-14.3 9 7.2 3.6-13.9 6 4.9 2.0-11.5 3 3.4 1.1-10.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 61 41 61.5 43.8-76.7 9 23.2 10.1-44.8 4 4.3 1.5-11.7 5 7.8 3.1-18.4 2 3.2 0.8-12.2
Some College + 160 118 65.0 55.2-73.6 18 13.4 7.9-21.8 12 10.1 5.6-17.6 11 10.4 5.3-19.3 1 1.1 0.1- 7.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 94 65 59.9 46.2-72.2 9 13.4 5.3-29.9 10 12.9 6.7-23.6 8 10.8 4.5-23.8 2 2.9 0.7-11.1
$50,000+ 92 65 62.9 50.4-73.8 13 17.5 9.5-30.1 5 6.4 2.5-15.5 8 12.0 6.0-22.7 1 1.2 0.2- 8.0

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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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