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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina**

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
-Eastern NC 5,449 3,523 67.0 65.2-68.6 468 9.4 8.3-10.7 502 9.2 8.2-10.3 466 7.5 6.6- 8.4 490 7.0 6.2- 7.8
GENDER
Male 1,907 1,360 72.0 69.2-74.7 150 9.2 7.4-11.4 143 7.7 6.3- 9.5 111 5.4 4.2- 6.8 143 5.7 4.6- 7.0
Female 3,542 2,163 62.2 60.2-64.2 318 9.7 8.5-11.0 359 10.5 9.3-11.9 355 9.4 8.3-10.7 347 8.1 7.2- 9.2
RACE
White 3,650 2,390 66.7 64.6-68.7 326 9.7 8.3-11.2 358 10.1 8.8-11.5 265 6.7 5.7- 7.9 311 6.8 5.9- 7.9
African American 1,321 826 65.0 61.4-68.4 98 9.4 7.2-12.3 110 7.9 6.0-10.2 146 9.5 7.8-11.6 141 8.2 6.7-10.1
Other Minorities 464 302 73.7 68.5-78.4 42 7.8 5.4-11.1 33 6.5 4.2- 9.8 53 7.4 5.3-10.2 34 4.6 3.0- 7.0
HISPANIC
Hispanic 245 170 78.5 72.3-83.5 25 8.2 5.1-12.9 20 5.0 3.0- 8.1 18 5.0 3.0- 8.2 12 3.4 1.7- 6.6
Non-Hispanic 5,197 3,351 66.0 64.2-67.7 443 9.5 8.4-10.8 481 9.5 8.5-10.7 447 7.6 6.8- 8.6 475 7.3 6.5- 8.1
AGE
18-24 275 183 66.9 59.1-73.8 32 12.6 8.0-19.3 34 12.7 8.4-18.7 20 6.1 3.3-11.0 6 1.7 0.7- 4.3
25-34 765 540 72.9 68.9-76.5 87 11.9 9.2-15.2 69 7.6 5.8- 9.9 45 4.9 3.4- 6.8 24 2.8 1.7- 4.5
35-44 985 661 68.5 64.9-71.8 102 10.4 8.3-12.9 107 10.4 8.3-12.9 63 6.0 4.5- 7.9 52 4.7 3.4- 6.6
45-54 1,124 693 65.1 61.6-68.5 114 9.5 7.6-11.8 97 8.2 6.5-10.3 116 9.0 7.3-11.1 104 8.1 6.3-10.4
55-64 1,018 647 64.5 60.8-68.0 69 7.0 5.4- 9.0 91 9.1 7.2-11.4 88 8.5 6.6-10.8 123 10.9 8.8-13.5
65-74 744 461 63.3 59.2-67.2 44 5.9 4.3- 8.1 61 8.2 6.2-10.8 81 10.4 8.1-13.3 97 12.2 9.8-15.1
75+ 510 317 63.1 58.0-67.9 20 4.3 2.4- 7.5 38 6.2 4.4- 8.7 53 10.6 7.9-14.1 82 15.8 12.4-20.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 823 464 64.0 59.2-68.4 46 6.2 4.0- 9.7 62 6.5 4.7- 8.9 95 10.5 7.8-13.9 156 12.8 10.4-15.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,796 1,160 67.0 63.9-70.0 134 9.4 7.4-11.9 165 9.2 7.5-11.3 179 7.7 6.4- 9.2 158 6.7 5.4- 8.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,401 891 63.6 60.2-66.9 141 11.2 9.0-13.8 144 11.6 9.3-14.2 113 7.4 5.9- 9.1 112 6.3 4.9- 8.0
College Graduate 1,419 1,000 72.9 70.2-75.5 147 9.8 8.2-11.7 130 8.4 6.9-10.1 79 5.0 3.9- 6.4 63 3.9 2.9- 5.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 715 308 47.0 42.1-51.9 42 6.9 4.7-10.0 69 9.8 7.4-13.0 132 17.1 13.9-20.9 164 19.2 15.9-22.9
$15,000- 24,999 1,011 613 64.7 60.5-68.7 79 8.7 6.4-11.7 107 9.6 7.4-12.5 107 8.9 7.1-11.2 105 8.1 6.2-10.4
$25,000- 34,999 701 464 66.9 61.4-72.0 70 11.7 8.1-16.7 71 9.7 7.4-12.8 54 7.0 4.5-10.6 42 4.6 3.2- 6.5
$35,000- 49,999 782 547 70.0 66.0-73.8 72 9.8 7.5-12.8 80 9.6 7.4-12.3 44 6.3 4.4- 8.9 39 4.3 3.0- 6.2
$50,000-74,999 713 522 74.9 70.8-78.7 65 7.7 5.8-10.1 63 9.7 7.0-13.3 40 4.5 3.1- 6.4 23 3.2 1.9- 5.2
$75,000+ 753 552 73.9 69.9-77.5 96 11.7 9.5-14.5 63 8.2 5.9-11.3 26 3.6 2.4- 5.4 16 2.6 1.3- 5.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,816 737 42.6 39.2-46.0 135 9.1 7.3-11.4 188 10.9 9.0-13.2 333 17.3 15.2-19.7 423 20.1 17.9-22.5
No 3,483 2,672 77.1 75.2-79.0 323 9.8 8.5-11.4 302 8.4 7.3- 9.7 122 3.2 2.5- 4.1 64 1.4 1.0- 2.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 891 600 67.1 62.9-71.1 79 11.6 8.5-15.5 71 6.9 5.2- 8.9 62 6.9 5.1- 9.1 79 7.6 5.8- 9.9
Non-Veteran 4,543 2,912 66.9 65.0-68.7 389 9.0 7.9-10.3 431 9.7 8.6-11.0 402 7.6 6.6- 8.6 409 6.8 6.0- 7.7

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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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