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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Gaston 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
-Gaston County 444 275 62.6 56.2-68.5 29 6.7 4.4-10.1 51 12.8 8.4-18.9 37 8.1 5.4-11.9 52 9.9 7.2-13.4
GENDER
Male 151 99 64.8 53.0-75.0 11 6.9 3.5-13.1 14 12.6 5.4-26.7 8 5.5 2.2-12.8 19 10.3 6.1-16.8
Female 293 176 60.7 54.2-66.9 18 6.5 3.8-10.9 37 12.9 9.3-17.7 29 10.3 6.8-15.3 33 9.6 6.6-13.8
RACE
White 387 237 61.7 54.8-68.2 26 6.9 4.4-10.7 42 12.6 7.8-19.7 36 9.3 6.2-13.6 46 9.5 6.9-13.0
Other 57 38 67.6 52.0-80.1 3 5.5 1.6-16.9 9 13.7 6.7-25.8 1 1.0 0.1- 6.9 6 12.3 4.6-28.8
AGE
18-44 145 89 62.2 50.5-72.6 14 9.0 4.9-15.9 24 17.0 9.0-29.8 12 8.7 4.4-16.5 6 3.1 1.2- 7.5
45+ 296 184 62.8 56.4-68.8 15 4.8 2.8- 8.2 27 9.2 6.2-13.4 25 7.6 4.9-11.6 45 15.6 11.3-21.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 227 133 62.1 53.6-69.9 9 5.0 2.3-10.4 22 7.5 4.7-11.8 27 11.8 7.3-18.4 36 13.7 9.3-19.7
Some College + 217 142 63.1 53.5-71.8 20 8.6 5.3-13.8 29 18.5 10.7-30.0 10 4.0 2.0- 8.0 16 5.7 3.4- 9.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 251 151 63.5 55.5-70.8 11 5.3 2.6-10.7 29 10.0 6.7-14.7 26 10.0 6.4-15.3 34 11.1 7.4-16.3
$50,000+ 123 80 65.0 54.8-74.0 14 10.4 5.8-17.8 15 13.0 7.7-21.1 8 7.9 3.2-18.3 6 3.7 1.6- 8.4

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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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