BRFSS 2005 - Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)**: (During the past 30 days, how many days per week or per month did you have at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage?*)

	Total Respond.^	No drinks	1-2 days	3-7 days	8-29 days	Everyday
North Carolina	6,629	64	0.9	0.7- 1.3	2,124	32.7	31.2-34.3	2,051	31.6	30.1-33.1	1,802	27.4	26.0-28.9	588	7.3	6.6- 8.1
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	252	4	1.2	0.4- 3.6	86	33.7	26.7-41.5	61	25.5	18.6-33.8	72	28.4	21.8-36.1	29	11.2	7.2-17.0
GENDER
Male	107	1	0.1	0.0- 1.0	35	31.8	22.2-43.3	25	28.2	17.9-41.4	29	25.6	16.7-37.1	17	14.3	8.1-23.8
Female	145	3	2.6	0.8- 8.1	51	36.1	26.8-46.5	36	22.0	15.0-31.0	43	32.0	23.3-42.2	12	7.3	3.7-13.7
RACE
White	225	2	0.8	0.2- 3.3	75	35.4	28.2-43.4	55	21.4	15.8-28.4	65	29.6	22.8-37.6	28	12.7	8.2-19.2
Other	27	2	4.2	0.7-21.4	11	22.0	7.1-51.3	6	53.0	24.7-79.6	7	20.0	6.0-49.6	1	0.8	0.1- 5.7
AGE
18-44	88	2	1.8	0.5- 7.2	37	36.3	25.0-49.4	22	29.9	18.5-44.5	24	28.6	18.3-41.7	3	3.3	0.6-16.9
45+	163	2	0.7	0.1- 3.3	49	31.4	23.3-40.7	38	21.1	14.4-29.9	48	28.3	20.7-37.4	26	18.5	12.2-26.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	74	2	1.5	0.3- 8.0	24	32.0	20.0-47.1	16	29.9	16.4-48.2	24	25.8	15.2-40.3	8	10.7	4.5-23.6
Some College +	178	2	1.1	0.3- 4.4	62	34.6	26.6-43.6	45	23.0	16.5-31.0	48	29.9	22.1-39.0	21	11.5	7.0-18.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	147	4	2.0	0.7- 6.0	47	33.5	24.4-44.1	35	26.6	17.2-38.7	47	28.9	20.6-39.0	14	8.9	4.6-16.7
$50,000+	80	0	0.0	. - .	31	37.1	25.5-50.3	19	24.1	14.7-36.8	18	24.1	13.9-38.4	12	14.8	7.6-26.7

*This question 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.

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)**

Alcohol Consumption

During the past 30 days, how many days per week or per month did you have at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage?*

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	Total Respond.^	No drinks			1-2 days			3-7 days			8-29 days			Everyday
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	6,629	64	0.9	0.7- 1.3	2,124	32.7	31.2-34.3	2,051	31.6	30.1-33.1	1,802	27.4	26.0-28.9	588	7.3	6.6- 8.1
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	252	4	1.2	0.4- 3.6	86	33.7	26.7-41.5	61	25.5	18.6-33.8	72	28.4	21.8-36.1	29	11.2	7.2-17.0
GENDER
Male	107	1	0.1	0.0- 1.0	35	31.8	22.2-43.3	25	28.2	17.9-41.4	29	25.6	16.7-37.1	17	14.3	8.1-23.8
Female	145	3	2.6	0.8- 8.1	51	36.1	26.8-46.5	36	22.0	15.0-31.0	43	32.0	23.3-42.2	12	7.3	3.7-13.7
RACE
White	225	2	0.8	0.2- 3.3	75	35.4	28.2-43.4	55	21.4	15.8-28.4	65	29.6	22.8-37.6	28	12.7	8.2-19.2
Other	27	2	4.2	0.7-21.4	11	22.0	7.1-51.3	6	53.0	24.7-79.6	7	20.0	6.0-49.6	1	0.8	0.1- 5.7
AGE
18-44	88	2	1.8	0.5- 7.2	37	36.3	25.0-49.4	22	29.9	18.5-44.5	24	28.6	18.3-41.7	3	3.3	0.6-16.9
45+	163	2	0.7	0.1- 3.3	49	31.4	23.3-40.7	38	21.1	14.4-29.9	48	28.3	20.7-37.4	26	18.5	12.2-26.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	74	2	1.5	0.3- 8.0	24	32.0	20.0-47.1	16	29.9	16.4-48.2	24	25.8	15.2-40.3	8	10.7	4.5-23.6
Some College +	178	2	1.1	0.3- 4.4	62	34.6	26.6-43.6	45	23.0	16.5-31.0	48	29.9	22.1-39.0	21	11.5	7.0-18.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	147	4	2.0	0.7- 6.0	47	33.5	24.4-44.1	35	26.6	17.2-38.7	47	28.9	20.6-39.0	14	8.9	4.6-16.7
$50,000+	80	0	0.0	. - .	31	37.1	25.5-50.3	19	24.1	14.7-36.8	18	24.1	13.9-38.4	12	14.8	7.6-26.7