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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Forsyth 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
-Forsyth County 446 291 67.7 62.2-72.7 55 12.4 9.3-16.5 44 8.5 6.1-11.6 29 6.9 4.3-10.8 27 4.5 3.0- 6.8
GENDER
Male 148 107 75.8 67.2-82.7 11 8.1 4.3-14.6 10 5.9 3.1-11.1 10 5.8 2.7-12.0 10 4.5 2.3- 8.5
Female 298 184 60.9 54.0-67.4 44 16.1 11.6-21.7 34 10.7 7.4-15.1 19 7.9 4.4-13.8 17 4.5 2.7- 7.6
RACE
White 335 215 64.7 58.2-70.7 46 14.4 10.5-19.4 34 9.5 6.6-13.5 20 6.6 3.6-11.7 20 4.9 3.1- 7.8
Other 109 74 74.6 64.2-82.8 9 7.7 3.5-16.0 10 6.2 3.1-11.9 9 8.0 3.9-15.8 7 3.5 1.5- 8.0
AGE
18-44 149 96 69.2 59.7-77.2 27 16.0 10.5-23.6 19 8.8 5.3-14.2 4 4.6 1.5-13.6 3 1.5 0.4- 4.9
45+ 295 193 66.2 59.9-71.9 28 9.3 6.2-13.7 25 8.3 5.5-12.4 25 9.0 5.8-13.7 24 7.3 4.7-11.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 154 98 68.4 58.5-76.9 12 7.6 4.0-14.1 14 6.6 3.7-11.6 13 9.8 4.9-18.8 17 7.5 4.4-12.5
Some College + 292 193 67.2 60.6-73.2 43 15.3 11.0-20.8 30 9.6 6.5-13.9 16 5.2 2.8- 9.4 10 2.8 1.4- 5.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 220 135 66.6 58.7-73.7 28 11.7 7.5-17.7 22 8.6 5.4-13.4 17 7.3 4.2-12.2 18 5.8 3.5- 9.6
$50,000+ 162 112 69.0 60.3-76.6 25 16.5 10.9-24.1 16 8.7 5.1-14.5 6 3.9 1.4-10.4 3 1.9 0.6- 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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