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

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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 248 203 76.6 67.4-83.8 18 5.5 3.0- 9.9 11 5.3 2.3-11.8 10 8.1 3.7-16.9 6 4.4 1.5-12.7
GENDER
Male 105 79 65.7 52.1-77.1 5 4.2 1.5-11.3 8 8.8 3.6-19.8 7 13.5 6.0-27.7 6 7.9 2.6-21.4
Female 143 124 90.8 83.8-94.9 13 7.2 3.5-14.3 3 0.9 0.3- 3.0 3 1.1 0.3- 4.0 0 0.0 . - .
RACE
White 224 193 83.0 74.9-88.8 13 4.7 2.4- 9.3 8 4.2 1.7-10.1 6 5.8 2.3-13.5 4 2.4 0.7- 7.3
Other 24 10 26.8 8.7-58.2 5 11.5 2.9-36.1 3 14.5 2.4-54.1 4 26.6 6.0-67.2 2 20.6 3.4-66.1
AGE
18-44 84 59 61.9 46.7-75.0 7 6.7 2.8-15.3 7 9.2 3.3-22.7 9 17.2 7.9-33.4 2 5.1 0.8-26.2
45+ 163 143 89.2 81.7-93.9 11 4.5 2.0- 9.8 4 2.0 0.7- 5.8 1 0.3 0.0- 2.3 4 3.9 1.2-11.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 70 48 55.5 38.5-71.2 8 10.2 4.4-21.9 6 10.2 3.2-28.1 6 16.9 6.3-37.9 2 7.3 1.3-32.3
Some College + 178 155 87.6 79.9-92.6 10 3.1 1.3- 6.9 5 2.8 1.0- 7.3 4 3.6 1.1-10.8 4 3.0 0.9- 9.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 141 109 68.5 55.6-79.0 9 5.7 2.4-12.5 10 8.8 3.8-19.2 9 11.5 4.9-24.8 4 5.5 1.4-19.3
$50,000+ 79 69 86.6 71.9-94.2 6 5.2 1.8-13.6 1 0.3 0.0- 2.3 1 4.1 0.6-23.7 2 3.8 0.6-19.6

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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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