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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne 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
-Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne 143 113 78.0 66.5-86.3 12 7.8 3.9-14.7 6 4.3 1.6-10.9 9 4.2 1.9- 9.0 3 5.8 1.4-20.8
GENDER
Male 68 48 72.0 55.0-84.4 7 7.9 3.2-18.3 5 6.6 2.4-17.1 6 5.0 1.9-12.8 2 8.4 1.8-31.3
Female 75 65 88.0 77.1-94.1 5 7.4 2.7-18.8 1 0.4 0.1- 3.1 3 2.8 0.9- 8.7 1 1.3 0.2- 8.8
RACE
White 115 90 77.3 63.9-86.7 10 8.4 4.0-16.9 5 3.8 1.3-10.0 8 4.3 1.9- 9.5 2 6.2 1.1-28.0
Other 28 23 79.7 55.2-92.6 2 6.0 1.3-24.1 1 5.7 0.8-32.3 1 3.8 0.5-23.7 1 4.7 0.6-27.8
AGE
18-44 72 55 75.9 59.3-87.3 7 9.6 4.2-20.6 2 2.7 0.5-14.7 6 4.7 1.8-12.0 2 7.0 1.2-31.1
45+ 71 58 81.6 68.4-90.1 5 4.3 1.7-10.8 4 7.2 2.5-19.1 3 3.3 0.9-11.2 1 3.6 0.5-21.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 62 48 71.9 51.8-85.9 4 7.6 2.5-20.7 3 4.7 1.1-17.8 5 5.2 1.7-14.8 2 10.6 2.3-37.4
Some College + 81 65 83.9 73.4-90.8 8 8.0 3.5-16.9 3 3.9 1.1-13.1 4 3.3 1.1- 8.9 1 1.0 0.1- 6.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 80 57 69.8 53.1-82.6 10 11.6 5.5-22.9 4 4.3 1.2-14.7 6 4.6 1.7-11.9 3 9.6 2.4-31.7
$50,000+ 48 42 86.2 70.6-94.2 1 1.8 0.3-12.0 2 6.5 1.6-23.6 3 5.5 1.5-18.2 0 0.0 . - .

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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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