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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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	Total Respond.^	Past month	Past year	Past 2 years	2+ years ago	Never
North Carolina	1,811	367	20.3	18.0-22.9	957	51.4	48.5-54.3	260	15.1	13.1-17.3	179	10.0	8.4-11.7	48	3.2	2.1- 4.8
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	52	6	12.3	4.9-27.6	32	54.1	37.7-69.7	10	23.2	11.1-42.3	3	8.6	2.3-27.4	1	1.7	0.2-11.5
Buncombe	32	8	27.3	13.4-47.8	15	43.2	25.8-62.4	2	4.0	1.0-15.0	5	15.4	5.5-36.3	2	10.2	2.0-39.0
Cabarrus	43	5	12.9	5.2-28.6	25	58.3	41.9-73.0	6	10.4	4.5-22.4	7	18.4	8.5-35.4	0	0.0	. - .
Catawba	54	12	19.2	10.7-32.1	23	38.5	25.5-53.4	8	12.4	5.8-24.5	7	12.3	5.6-24.9	4	17.5	6.6-38.8
Cumberland	39	5	9.7	3.6-23.3	23	60.3	42.5-75.7	7	12.6	5.5-26.3	3	13.0	4.1-34.3	1	4.4	0.6-25.4
Davidson	62	17	22.1	13.4-34.3	27	44.5	30.5-59.3	8	15.6	7.2-30.5	7	9.6	4.3-20.2	3	8.2	2.3-25.5
Durham	38	12	27.1	14.8-44.4	19	48.9	31.5-66.6	3	14.5	4.1-40.2	3	6.8	2.1-20.0	1	2.7	0.4-16.9
Forsyth	55	11	13.1	6.9-23.6	33	62.5	47.7-75.3	5	10.3	4.0-23.8	5	12.5	5.0-27.9	1	1.7	0.2-11.0
Gaston	50	5	10.0	4.0-22.8	28	51.7	35.5-67.6	9	21.0	9.4-40.3	6	14.5	5.9-31.6	2	2.8	0.7-11.2
Guilford	53	9	20.1	9.3-37.9	32	56.4	40.3-71.2	8	17.7	8.2-34.0	4	5.9	2.1-15.7	0	0.0	. - .
Iredell	36	8	15.7	7.2-30.6	20	64.9	46.7-79.6	5	13.1	5.0-30.2	3	6.3	1.9-19.0	0	0.0	. - .
Johnston	51	10	19.4	10.0-34.2	26	52.8	38.2-67.0	10	17.0	8.9-29.9	5	10.9	4.5-24.0	0	0.0	. - .
Mecklenburg	69	12	21.5	10.7-38.5	36	48.1	34.6-61.9	12	17.2	9.6-29.0	8	11.8	5.6-23.2	1	1.3	0.2- 8.9
New Hanover	38	7	18.7	8.3-36.9	21	55.4	38.0-71.7	5	15.3	6.3-32.4	4	9.1	3.3-22.6	1	1.5	0.2-10.3
Onslow	46	13	30.6	17.4-47.9	21	42.9	27.8-59.5	5	15.4	5.8-35.0	6	9.9	4.0-22.4	1	1.1	0.2- 7.7
Orange	29	9	29.5	13.8-52.3	15	44.9	24.6-67.0	4	23.4	6.5-57.2	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.2	0.3-14.7
Pitt	40	5	11.4	4.3-27.2	24	53.6	34.8-71.5	7	21.3	9.8-40.3	2	9.8	2.1-35.7	2	3.8	0.8-15.9
Randolph	29	4	19.2	7.5-41.2	16	52.7	33.6-71.0	5	13.5	5.3-30.2	3	12.2	3.9-32.2	1	2.4	0.3-15.1
Robeson	61	11	20.2	10.6-35.0	39	64.1	49.0-76.9	7	9.4	4.0-20.5	4	6.4	1.9-19.2	0	0.0	. - .
Rowan	74	14	19.5	11.4-31.5	42	55.9	42.8-68.2	7	8.5	4.0-17.4	9	13.4	6.5-25.8	2	2.6	0.7- 9.9
Union	32	7	22.6	10.2-42.9	18	55.7	36.5-73.4	4	8.9	3.2-22.5	2	6.0	1.5-21.5	1	6.7	1.0-34.8
Wake	55	10	19.8	10.4-34.5	31	50.3	34.9-65.7	9	13.8	6.9-25.8	3	5.3	1.4-18.3	2	10.7	2.3-37.9
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	38	11	28.6	15.0-47.6	20	54.1	35.7-71.4	4	12.3	4.1-31.5	2	3.2	0.7-12.8	1	1.8	0.2-12.0
Northeast Partnership II	68	14	23.1	13.7-36.2	33	44.8	32.5-57.8	8	14.0	6.8-26.7	10	13.3	6.8-24.2	3	4.8	1.5-14.7
Northeast Partnership I	100	25	28.3	18.3-41.0	55	53.5	41.5-65.1	12	12.9	6.9-22.7	7	4.6	2.0-10.0	1	0.8	0.1- 5.3
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	51	10	26.0	12.1-47.2	24	41.5	26.5-58.3	8	17.1	8.2-32.4	7	11.7	5.4-23.7	2	3.7	0.7-16.4
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	72	22	25.4	15.6-38.6	31	43.0	30.3-56.7	15	24.2	14.0-38.5	4	7.4	2.8-18.4	0	0.0	. - .
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	48	8	21.3	9.6-41.0	22	49.3	32.8-66.0	12	19.3	10.3-33.1	5	8.0	3.1-19.3	1	2.1	0.3-13.6
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	53	15	23.4	13.3-38.0	25	51.2	36.0-66.2	5	11.9	4.9-26.2	7	12.7	5.6-26.5	1	0.7	0.1- 4.7
Chatham/Lee/Moore	47	10	20.3	10.6-35.4	27	58.7	42.9-73.0	4	8.1	3.0-20.2	4	6.4	2.3-16.6	2	6.4	1.6-22.3
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	70	9	11.8	5.5-23.5	38	54.6	40.9-67.6	10	11.1	5.4-21.5	11	21.3	11.5-36.0	2	1.2	0.3- 4.8
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	55	9	12.0	5.3-25.1	32	60.5	44.7-74.3	8	15.2	7.2-29.2	3	5.3	1.6-15.9	3	7.0	2.0-21.7
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	39	8	17.0	8.2-32.1	20	47.1	30.6-64.3	4	12.1	4.3-29.8	6	21.0	9.7-39.9	1	2.8	0.4-17.3
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	53	8	12.1	5.7-23.9	27	51.8	37.2-66.2	8	18.3	8.8-34.4	9	16.7	8.6-30.0	1	1.0	0.1- 6.9
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	79	18	28.0	16.4-43.7	37	46.9	33.3-61.0	16	16.3	8.5-29.0	5	6.9	2.5-17.4	3	1.8	0.5- 7.1
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	180	43	24.6	17.9-33.0	94	51.1	42.4-59.7	21	13.7	8.5-21.4	17	7.6	4.5-12.7	5	2.9	1.2- 7.2
No	1,631	324	19.9	17.5-22.6	863	51.4	48.3-54.5	239	15.2	13.1-17.6	162	10.2	8.5-12.1	43	3.2	2.1- 5.0
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	652	139	22.0	18.2-26.4	339	50.3	45.6-55.1	99	16.8	13.4-20.8	61	9.1	6.8-12.1	14	1.8	0.9- 3.2
Piedmont	969	186	18.4	15.4-21.9	525	52.8	48.8-56.8	133	14.6	12.0-17.7	98	10.0	8.0-12.5	27	4.1	2.4- 7.1
Western NC	190	42	23.2	16.3-32.0	93	48.7	40.1-57.4	28	13.0	8.3-20.0	20	11.8	7.4-18.3	7	3.2	1.2- 8.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	111	26	27.9	18.0-40.4	52	46.0	34.7-57.7	18	13.3	7.2-23.2	10	9.0	4.4-17.6	5	3.9	1.2-12.0
Northwest	388	81	15.5	12.2-19.5	204	55.0	49.0-60.9	47	12.9	9.2-17.6	42	11.6	8.3-16.2	14	5.0	2.8- 8.8
Charlotte	241	35	16.6	11.0-24.3	135	53.6	45.9-61.1	37	14.6	10.1-20.6	30	13.6	9.3-19.6	4	1.6	0.6- 4.5
Greensboro	209	37	19.3	12.8-28.1	116	51.9	43.0-60.6	34	18.8	12.5-27.3	18	8.8	5.2-14.4	4	1.3	0.4- 3.7
Southern Regional	197	33	13.9	9.5-19.8	117	59.8	51.1-67.9	26	12.2	7.6-19.0	15	10.6	5.9-18.4	6	3.6	1.4- 8.6
Coastal	88	19	29.1	17.6-44.1	43	47.5	35.0-60.3	16	15.6	9.3-25.1	9	7.4	3.6-14.4	1	0.5	0.1- 3.2
Wake	224	50	22.5	15.9-30.7	114	48.8	40.3-57.5	33	14.2	9.6-20.6	22	8.5	5.1-13.8	5	5.9	1.7-18.8
Area L	97	21	18.7	10.7-30.7	48	50.9	39.0-62.8	14	18.5	10.8-29.9	11	9.9	5.1-18.1	3	1.9	0.6- 6.0
Eastern	256	65	26.8	20.7-33.9	128	45.0	37.6-52.7	35	18.7	12.8-26.5	22	7.6	4.7-12.2	6	1.9	0.8- 4.6

Total
Respond.^

Past month

Past year

Past 2 years

2+ years ago

Never

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

1,811

367

20.3

18.0-22.9

957

51.4

48.5-54.3

260

15.1

13.1-17.3

179

10.0

8.4-11.7

3.2

2.1- 4.8

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

12.3

4.9-27.6

54.1

37.7-69.7

23.2

11.1-42.3

8.6

2.3-27.4

1.7

0.2-11.5

Buncombe

27.3

13.4-47.8

43.2

25.8-62.4

4.0

1.0-15.0

15.4

5.5-36.3

10.2

2.0-39.0

Cabarrus

12.9

5.2-28.6

58.3

41.9-73.0

10.4

4.5-22.4

18.4

8.5-35.4

0.0

. - .

Catawba

19.2

10.7-32.1

38.5

25.5-53.4

12.4

5.8-24.5

12.3

5.6-24.9

17.5

6.6-38.8

Cumberland

9.7

3.6-23.3

60.3

42.5-75.7

12.6

5.5-26.3

13.0

4.1-34.3

4.4

0.6-25.4

Davidson

22.1

13.4-34.3

44.5

30.5-59.3

15.6

7.2-30.5

9.6

4.3-20.2

8.2

2.3-25.5

Durham

27.1

14.8-44.4

48.9

31.5-66.6

14.5

4.1-40.2

6.8

2.1-20.0

2.7

0.4-16.9

Forsyth

13.1

6.9-23.6

62.5

47.7-75.3

10.3

4.0-23.8

12.5

5.0-27.9

1.7

0.2-11.0

Gaston

10.0

4.0-22.8

51.7

35.5-67.6

21.0

9.4-40.3

14.5

5.9-31.6

2.8

0.7-11.2

Guilford

20.1

9.3-37.9

56.4

40.3-71.2

17.7

8.2-34.0

5.9

2.1-15.7

0.0

. - .

Iredell

15.7

7.2-30.6

64.9

46.7-79.6

13.1

5.0-30.2

6.3

1.9-19.0

0.0

. - .

Johnston

19.4

10.0-34.2

52.8

38.2-67.0

17.0

8.9-29.9

10.9

4.5-24.0

0.0

. - .

Mecklenburg

21.5

10.7-38.5

48.1

34.6-61.9

17.2

9.6-29.0

11.8

5.6-23.2

1.3

0.2- 8.9

New Hanover

18.7

8.3-36.9

55.4

38.0-71.7

15.3

6.3-32.4

9.1

3.3-22.6

1.5

0.2-10.3

Onslow

30.6

17.4-47.9

42.9

27.8-59.5

15.4

5.8-35.0

9.9

4.0-22.4

1.1

0.2- 7.7

Orange

29.5

13.8-52.3

44.9

24.6-67.0

23.4

6.5-57.2

0.0

. - .

2.2

0.3-14.7

Pitt

11.4

4.3-27.2

53.6

34.8-71.5

21.3

9.8-40.3

9.8

2.1-35.7

3.8

0.8-15.9

Randolph

19.2

7.5-41.2

52.7

33.6-71.0

13.5

5.3-30.2

12.2

3.9-32.2

2.4

0.3-15.1

Robeson

20.2

10.6-35.0

64.1

49.0-76.9

9.4

4.0-20.5

6.4

1.9-19.2

0.0

. - .

Rowan

19.5

11.4-31.5

55.9

42.8-68.2

8.5

4.0-17.4

13.4

6.5-25.8

2.6

0.7- 9.9

Union

22.6

10.2-42.9

55.7

36.5-73.4

8.9

3.2-22.5

6.0

1.5-21.5

6.7

1.0-34.8

Wake

19.8

10.4-34.5

50.3

34.9-65.7

13.8

6.9-25.8

5.3

1.4-18.3

10.7

2.3-37.9

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

28.6

15.0-47.6

54.1

35.7-71.4

12.3

4.1-31.5

3.2

0.7-12.8

1.8

0.2-12.0

Northeast Partnership II

23.1

13.7-36.2

44.8

32.5-57.8

14.0

6.8-26.7

13.3

6.8-24.2

4.8

1.5-14.7

Northeast Partnership I

100

28.3

18.3-41.0

53.5

41.5-65.1

12.9

6.9-22.7

4.6

2.0-10.0

0.8

0.1- 5.3

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

26.0

12.1-47.2

41.5

26.5-58.3

17.1

8.2-32.4

11.7

5.4-23.7

3.7

0.7-16.4

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

25.4

15.6-38.6

43.0

30.3-56.7

24.2

14.0-38.5

7.4

2.8-18.4

0.0

. - .

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

21.3

9.6-41.0

49.3

32.8-66.0

19.3

10.3-33.1

8.0

3.1-19.3

2.1

0.3-13.6

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

23.4

13.3-38.0

51.2

36.0-66.2

11.9

4.9-26.2

12.7

5.6-26.5

0.7

0.1- 4.7

Chatham/Lee/Moore

20.3

10.6-35.4

58.7

42.9-73.0

8.1

3.0-20.2

6.4

2.3-16.6

6.4

1.6-22.3

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

11.8

5.5-23.5

54.6

40.9-67.6

11.1

5.4-21.5

21.3

11.5-36.0

1.2

0.3- 4.8

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

12.0

5.3-25.1

60.5

44.7-74.3

15.2

7.2-29.2

5.3

1.6-15.9

7.0

2.0-21.7

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

17.0

8.2-32.1

47.1

30.6-64.3

12.1

4.3-29.8

21.0

9.7-39.9

2.8

0.4-17.3

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

12.1

5.7-23.9

51.8

37.2-66.2

18.3

8.8-34.4

16.7

8.6-30.0

1.0

0.1- 6.9

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

28.0

16.4-43.7

46.9

33.3-61.0

16.3

8.5-29.0

6.9

2.5-17.4

1.8

0.5- 7.1

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

180

24.6

17.9-33.0

51.1

42.4-59.7

13.7

8.5-21.4

7.6

4.5-12.7

2.9

1.2- 7.2

1,631

324

19.9

17.5-22.6

863

51.4

48.3-54.5

239

15.2

13.1-17.6

162

10.2

8.5-12.1

3.2

2.1- 5.0

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

652

139

22.0

18.2-26.4

339

50.3

45.6-55.1

16.8

13.4-20.8

9.1

6.8-12.1

1.8

0.9- 3.2

Piedmont

969

186

18.4

15.4-21.9

525

52.8

48.8-56.8

133

14.6

12.0-17.7

10.0

8.0-12.5

4.1

2.4- 7.1

Western NC

190

23.2

16.3-32.0

48.7

40.1-57.4

13.0

8.3-20.0

11.8

7.4-18.3

3.2

1.2- 8.1

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

111

27.9

18.0-40.4

46.0

34.7-57.7

13.3

7.2-23.2

9.0

4.4-17.6

3.9

1.2-12.0

Northwest

388

15.5

12.2-19.5

204

55.0

49.0-60.9

12.9

9.2-17.6

11.6

8.3-16.2

5.0

2.8- 8.8

Charlotte

241

16.6

11.0-24.3

135

53.6

45.9-61.1

14.6

10.1-20.6

13.6

9.3-19.6

1.6

0.6- 4.5

Greensboro

209

19.3

12.8-28.1

116

51.9

43.0-60.6

18.8

12.5-27.3

8.8

5.2-14.4

1.3

0.4- 3.7

Southern Regional

197

13.9

9.5-19.8

117

59.8

51.1-67.9

12.2

7.6-19.0

10.6

5.9-18.4

3.6

1.4- 8.6

Coastal

29.1

17.6-44.1

47.5

35.0-60.3

15.6

9.3-25.1

7.4

3.6-14.4

0.5

0.1- 3.2

Wake

224

22.5

15.9-30.7

114

48.8

40.3-57.5

14.2

9.6-20.6

8.5

5.1-13.8

5.9

1.7-18.8

Area L

18.7

10.7-30.7

50.9

39.0-62.8

18.5

10.8-29.9

9.9

5.1-18.1

1.9

0.6- 6.0

Eastern

256

26.8

20.7-33.9

128

45.0

37.6-52.7

18.7

12.8-26.5

7.6

4.7-12.2

1.9

0.8- 4.6

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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, Edgecombe, 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.

*** 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.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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