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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Durham County

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
-Durham County 458 306 71.1 65.8-75.9 59 13.1 9.7-17.6 42 7.1 4.9-10.2 16 2.5 1.5- 4.3 35 6.2 4.1- 9.1
GENDER
Male 152 110 76.6 67.8-83.5 16 12.1 6.9-20.3 10 5.8 2.9-11.4 5 2.1 0.9- 5.1 11 3.5 1.8- 6.6
Female 306 196 66.1 59.5-72.2 43 14.1 10.1-19.3 32 8.3 5.6-12.2 11 2.9 1.5- 5.6 24 8.6 5.3-13.6
RACE
White 255 159 63.9 56.7-70.5 40 17.3 12.1-24.0 24 8.7 5.6-13.5 10 3.1 1.6- 5.8 22 7.0 4.4-11.0
Other 200 145 77.4 69.7-83.6 19 9.5 5.6-15.9 17 5.6 3.0-10.1 6 2.0 0.8- 5.0 13 5.4 2.8-10.4
AGE
18-44 230 162 74.2 66.9-80.3 32 13.7 9.0-20.2 20 6.8 4.3-10.8 7 1.8 0.8- 4.0 9 3.5 1.5- 7.7
45+ 227 143 65.7 57.9-72.7 27 12.3 8.1-18.1 22 7.6 4.3-13.2 9 3.7 1.8- 7.6 26 10.7 7.0-15.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 146 104 73.8 63.6-81.9 9 9.2 4.2-18.8 10 6.1 2.8-12.4 5 2.4 0.9- 6.2 18 8.5 4.8-14.8
Some College + 312 202 69.3 63.3-74.7 50 15.7 11.6-20.9 32 7.8 5.2-11.5 11 2.6 1.4- 4.9 17 4.6 2.7- 7.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 226 146 71.7 64.1-78.2 25 10.6 6.5-16.8 25 9.1 5.6-14.3 7 2.1 0.9- 4.7 23 6.5 4.2-10.2
$50,000+ 173 121 71.4 62.9-78.5 29 18.1 12.0-26.3 13 5.7 3.0-10.4 5 2.6 1.0- 6.3 5 2.3 0.9- 6.0

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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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