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	Total Respond.^	Excellent	Very good	Good	Fair	Poor
North Carolina	4,021	1,010	24.0	22.5-25.6	1,008	25.0	23.4-26.7	1,207	29.6	27.9-31.4	388	10.6	9.4-11.9	408	10.8	9.6-12.0
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	93	14	22.2	10.4-41.3	24	21.0	13.4-31.3	34	35.5	24.4-48.4	11	12.3	6.4-22.3	10	9.1	4.7-17.0
Buncombe	105	27	26.1	17.8-36.5	25	22.5	15.0-32.3	35	33.0	23.9-43.4	9	9.5	4.8-18.1	9	8.9	4.5-16.9
Cabarrus	110	26	22.1	14.6-32.0	21	18.0	11.5-27.1	39	41.3	30.9-52.7	11	8.8	4.7-16.1	13	9.7	5.3-17.0
Catawba	121	22	15.5	10.0-23.3	33	25.9	17.9-36.0	39	31.8	23.3-41.7	11	9.5	5.2-16.8	16	17.3	10.1-27.9
Cumberland	96	26	29.1	19.5-40.9	27	29.6	20.3-41.0	32	30.6	21.6-41.3	7	7.0	3.0-15.4	4	3.8	1.4-10.0
Davidson	125	31	21.7	15.1-30.2	30	24.2	17.0-33.4	35	29.1	20.4-39.7	9	6.0	2.9-12.0	20	18.9	11.9-28.8
Durham	93	29	29.7	19.5-42.4	20	17.4	10.9-26.7	20	24.7	15.6-36.8	15	16.9	9.8-27.5	9	11.4	5.7-21.5
Forsyth	98	20	18.0	11.4-27.2	27	30.3	21.0-41.6	34	32.1	22.9-43.0	9	11.3	5.7-21.2	8	8.2	4.0-16.2
Gaston	113	31	28.3	19.9-38.6	32	27.9	19.8-37.7	29	24.1	16.8-33.4	10	10.8	5.4-20.3	11	8.9	4.6-16.4
Guilford	111	26	22.1	14.8-31.5	30	29.7	20.9-40.4	37	30.2	21.5-40.6	6	7.3	3.1-16.1	12	10.7	5.7-19.1
Iredell	100	26	23.7	15.5-34.4	25	27.1	18.0-38.7	27	25.9	17.4-36.6	10	11.9	6.0-22.3	12	11.4	6.4-19.5
Johnston	91	20	20.1	11.3-33.2	23	27.8	17.8-40.6	35	40.1	28.8-52.5	8	7.9	3.5-16.5	5	4.2	1.6-10.1
Mecklenburg	210	61	29.0	22.6-36.5	47	22.5	17.0-29.2	60	28.3	22.2-35.4	23	10.8	7.0-16.5	19	9.3	5.8-14.4
New Hanover	108	41	38.8	29.2-49.3	25	20.8	13.9-30.0	24	25.3	17.1-35.7	10	8.0	4.1-14.8	8	7.1	3.3-14.6
Onslow	64	16	22.1	13.4-34.2	14	20.9	12.2-33.3	16	19.7	11.9-30.8	6	10.4	4.5-22.4	12	27.0	15.8-42.1
Orange	106	39	36.6	27.2-47.2	23	21.2	13.8-31.3	26	26.0	17.8-36.3	9	8.0	4.0-15.4	9	8.1	4.1-15.6
Pitt	96	25	23.4	15.7-33.3	23	22.3	14.7-32.4	34	37.9	27.6-49.3	7	8.9	3.7-20.1	7	7.5	3.3-16.1
Randolph	117	18	12.6	7.6-20.2	26	23.9	15.9-34.3	44	39.6	29.9-50.1	13	9.1	5.0-16.0	16	14.8	8.8-23.7
Robeson	87	21	19.4	12.2-29.4	17	17.0	10.0-27.4	24	32.2	21.4-45.3	11	13.4	7.3-23.2	14	18.0	10.4-29.2
Rowan	110	36	39.5	29.5-50.5	27	20.3	13.7-28.9	31	27.9	19.6-38.0	9	7.2	3.6-14.0	7	5.1	2.4-10.7
Union	94	25	22.3	14.5-32.8	26	25.6	17.1-36.5	17	18.7	11.1-29.8	14	18.9	10.5-31.5	12	14.4	7.9-25.0
Wake	196	51	24.7	18.7-31.8	46	24.2	17.8-31.9	56	27.9	21.4-35.6	18	9.6	6.0-15.0	25	13.6	9.0-20.1
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	123	36	27.4	19.8-36.6	34	28.4	20.3-38.2	39	33.3	24.3-43.7	8	5.7	2.7-11.5	6	5.2	2.3-11.2
Northeast Partnership II	110	25	21.8	14.2-31.9	25	23.0	13.9-35.5	38	37.9	27.8-49.2	10	7.3	3.6-14.3	12	10.0	5.4-17.7
Northeast Partnership I	133	29	22.9	15.7-32.2	32	21.6	15.0-30.1	48	33.8	25.3-43.5	13	11.0	5.2-21.9	11	10.6	5.5-19.5
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	104	23	23.0	14.7-34.1	34	29.7	20.4-41.1	21	18.0	11.1-27.8	14	13.5	7.4-23.4	12	15.7	8.0-28.6
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	102	20	17.1	10.6-26.5	26	24.1	16.1-34.5	33	30.9	21.4-42.4	12	15.2	8.1-26.5	11	12.7	6.6-22.8
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	105	29	26.7	18.5-36.9	25	24.9	16.8-35.3	35	29.7	21.2-40.0	11	12.6	6.4-23.3	5	6.1	2.5-14.3
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	109	23	22.4	13.9-33.9	31	25.2	17.3-35.1	29	26.6	18.4-36.8	9	6.3	3.1-12.4	17	19.5	11.0-32.1
Chatham/Lee/Moore	128	38	26.9	19.4-36.1	39	29.6	21.3-39.5	31	25.5	17.6-35.6	12	8.8	4.8-15.4	8	9.2	4.0-19.9
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	150	43	27.8	20.5-36.5	42	25.6	18.5-34.3	47	32.4	24.3-41.8	11	9.4	5.0-17.1	7	4.7	2.1-10.4
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	117	18	16.5	10.4-25.3	21	17.2	11.2-25.6	50	42.3	32.7-52.5	13	10.8	6.0-18.8	15	13.1	7.6-21.7
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	96	27	24.7	16.9-34.7	24	26.6	18.0-37.5	30	32.5	22.9-43.8	8	10.9	5.3-21.1	7	5.3	2.5-11.1
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	119	27	20.2	13.5-29.2	38	34.1	25.1-44.4	29	24.8	16.8-34.9	11	10.1	5.5-18.0	14	10.7	6.1-18.3
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	181	41	22.6	16.3-30.4	46	26.9	19.8-35.4	49	23.3	16.8-31.4	20	16.0	9.7-25.3	25	11.1	6.9-17.6
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	286	64	21.8	16.8-27.7	68	23.9	18.1-30.8	99	35.1	28.7-42.0	29	9.7	6.2-14.8	26	9.6	6.3-14.2
No	3,735	946	24.2	22.6-25.9	940	25.1	23.4-26.8	1,108	29.3	27.5-31.1	359	10.6	9.4-12.0	382	10.8	9.6-12.2
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	1,225	317	24.5	21.8-27.5	311	24.9	22.1-27.9	380	31.1	28.1-34.4	115	10.1	8.1-12.5	102	9.3	7.4-11.8
Piedmont	2,323	580	24.0	21.9-26.1	581	25.1	22.9-27.3	687	29.5	27.3-31.9	224	10.0	8.6-11.6	251	11.4	9.9-13.1
Western NC	473	113	23.2	19.1-27.9	116	25.1	20.7-30.0	140	27.2	22.8-32.1	49	13.6	9.8-18.5	55	10.9	8.0-14.6
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	286	68	23.7	18.4-29.8	71	25.6	20.0-32.1	84	26.3	20.8-32.6	29	14.0	9.2-20.9	34	10.5	7.0-15.3
Northwest	804	188	21.2	18.2-24.6	201	25.2	21.8-29.0	248	31.2	27.5-35.2	74	10.3	8.0-13.2	93	12.1	9.6-15.0
Charlotte	632	174	26.6	22.7-30.9	156	25.1	21.3-29.3	176	28.3	24.4-32.7	64	10.8	8.2-14.1	62	9.2	7.0-12.0
Greensboro	520	123	23.0	18.8-27.8	129	25.5	21.0-30.6	167	32.1	27.3-37.3	46	8.7	6.0-12.5	55	10.7	7.8-14.5
Southern Regional	379	93	22.5	17.8-28.0	102	24.5	19.7-30.0	112	31.0	25.4-37.3	43	13.1	9.0-18.6	29	8.9	5.7-13.7
Coastal	204	69	32.4	25.8-39.8	46	21.8	16.2-28.7	58	29.3	22.8-36.8	18	9.8	5.7-16.4	13	6.7	3.7-11.8
Wake	555	136	24.1	20.0-28.8	132	23.8	19.6-28.6	166	28.7	24.3-33.5	57	10.3	7.7-13.6	64	13.1	10.0-17.0
Area L	165	38	22.5	15.9-30.8	49	28.0	20.2-37.3	46	24.9	18.0-33.3	18	12.6	7.3-20.9	14	12.0	5.8-23.3
Eastern	476	121	24.4	20.3-29.1	122	26.3	21.9-31.3	150	31.7	27.0-36.8	39	7.3	5.1-10.4	44	10.2	7.4-13.9

Total
Respond.^

Excellent

Very good

Good

Fair

Poor

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

4,021

1,010

24.0

22.5-25.6

1,008

25.0

23.4-26.7

1,207

29.6

27.9-31.4

388

10.6

9.4-11.9

408

10.8

9.6-12.0

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

22.2

10.4-41.3

21.0

13.4-31.3

35.5

24.4-48.4

12.3

6.4-22.3

9.1

4.7-17.0

Buncombe

105

26.1

17.8-36.5

22.5

15.0-32.3

33.0

23.9-43.4

9.5

4.8-18.1

8.9

4.5-16.9

Cabarrus

110

22.1

14.6-32.0

18.0

11.5-27.1

41.3

30.9-52.7

8.8

4.7-16.1

9.7

5.3-17.0

Catawba

121

15.5

10.0-23.3

25.9

17.9-36.0

31.8

23.3-41.7

9.5

5.2-16.8

17.3

10.1-27.9

Cumberland

29.1

19.5-40.9

29.6

20.3-41.0

30.6

21.6-41.3

7.0

3.0-15.4

3.8

1.4-10.0

Davidson

125

21.7

15.1-30.2

24.2

17.0-33.4

29.1

20.4-39.7

6.0

2.9-12.0

18.9

11.9-28.8

Durham

29.7

19.5-42.4

17.4

10.9-26.7

24.7

15.6-36.8

16.9

9.8-27.5

11.4

5.7-21.5

Forsyth

18.0

11.4-27.2

30.3

21.0-41.6

32.1

22.9-43.0

11.3

5.7-21.2

8.2

4.0-16.2

Gaston

113

28.3

19.9-38.6

27.9

19.8-37.7

24.1

16.8-33.4

10.8

5.4-20.3

8.9

4.6-16.4

Guilford

111

22.1

14.8-31.5

29.7

20.9-40.4

30.2

21.5-40.6

7.3

3.1-16.1

10.7

5.7-19.1

Iredell

100

23.7

15.5-34.4

27.1

18.0-38.7

25.9

17.4-36.6

11.9

6.0-22.3

11.4

6.4-19.5

Johnston

20.1

11.3-33.2

27.8

17.8-40.6

40.1

28.8-52.5

7.9

3.5-16.5

4.2

1.6-10.1

Mecklenburg

210

29.0

22.6-36.5

22.5

17.0-29.2

28.3

22.2-35.4

10.8

7.0-16.5

9.3

5.8-14.4

New Hanover

108

38.8

29.2-49.3

20.8

13.9-30.0

25.3

17.1-35.7

8.0

4.1-14.8

7.1

3.3-14.6

Onslow

22.1

13.4-34.2

20.9

12.2-33.3

19.7

11.9-30.8

10.4

4.5-22.4

27.0

15.8-42.1

Orange

106

36.6

27.2-47.2

21.2

13.8-31.3

26.0

17.8-36.3

8.0

4.0-15.4

8.1

4.1-15.6

Pitt

23.4

15.7-33.3

22.3

14.7-32.4

37.9

27.6-49.3

8.9

3.7-20.1

7.5

3.3-16.1

Randolph

117

12.6

7.6-20.2

23.9

15.9-34.3

39.6

29.9-50.1

9.1

5.0-16.0

14.8

8.8-23.7

Robeson

19.4

12.2-29.4

17.0

10.0-27.4

32.2

21.4-45.3

13.4

7.3-23.2

18.0

10.4-29.2

Rowan

110

39.5

29.5-50.5

20.3

13.7-28.9

27.9

19.6-38.0

7.2

3.6-14.0

5.1

2.4-10.7

Union

22.3

14.5-32.8

25.6

17.1-36.5

18.7

11.1-29.8

18.9

10.5-31.5

14.4

7.9-25.0

Wake

196

24.7

18.7-31.8

24.2

17.8-31.9

27.9

21.4-35.6

9.6

6.0-15.0

13.6

9.0-20.1

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

123

27.4

19.8-36.6

28.4

20.3-38.2

33.3

24.3-43.7

5.7

2.7-11.5

5.2

2.3-11.2

Northeast Partnership II

110

21.8

14.2-31.9

23.0

13.9-35.5

37.9

27.8-49.2

7.3

3.6-14.3

10.0

5.4-17.7

Northeast Partnership I

133

22.9

15.7-32.2

21.6

15.0-30.1

33.8

25.3-43.5

11.0

5.2-21.9

10.6

5.5-19.5

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

104

23.0

14.7-34.1

29.7

20.4-41.1

18.0

11.1-27.8

13.5

7.4-23.4

15.7

8.0-28.6

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

102

17.1

10.6-26.5

24.1

16.1-34.5

30.9

21.4-42.4

15.2

8.1-26.5

12.7

6.6-22.8

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

105

26.7

18.5-36.9

24.9

16.8-35.3

29.7

21.2-40.0

12.6

6.4-23.3

6.1

2.5-14.3

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

109

22.4

13.9-33.9

25.2

17.3-35.1

26.6

18.4-36.8

6.3

3.1-12.4

19.5

11.0-32.1

Chatham/Lee/Moore

128

26.9

19.4-36.1

29.6

21.3-39.5

25.5

17.6-35.6

8.8

4.8-15.4

9.2

4.0-19.9

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

150

27.8

20.5-36.5

25.6

18.5-34.3

32.4

24.3-41.8

9.4

5.0-17.1

4.7

2.1-10.4

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

117

16.5

10.4-25.3

17.2

11.2-25.6

42.3

32.7-52.5

10.8

6.0-18.8

13.1

7.6-21.7

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

24.7

16.9-34.7

26.6

18.0-37.5

32.5

22.9-43.8

10.9

5.3-21.1

5.3

2.5-11.1

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

119

20.2

13.5-29.2

34.1

25.1-44.4

24.8

16.8-34.9

10.1

5.5-18.0

10.7

6.1-18.3

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

181

22.6

16.3-30.4

26.9

19.8-35.4

23.3

16.8-31.4

16.0

9.7-25.3

11.1

6.9-17.6

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

286

21.8

16.8-27.7

23.9

18.1-30.8

35.1

28.7-42.0

9.7

6.2-14.8

9.6

6.3-14.2

3,735

946

24.2

22.6-25.9

940

25.1

23.4-26.8

1,108

29.3

27.5-31.1

359

10.6

9.4-12.0

382

10.8

9.6-12.2

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

1,225

317

24.5

21.8-27.5

311

24.9

22.1-27.9

380

31.1

28.1-34.4

115

10.1

8.1-12.5

102

9.3

7.4-11.8

Piedmont

2,323

580

24.0

21.9-26.1

581

25.1

22.9-27.3

687

29.5

27.3-31.9

224

10.0

8.6-11.6

251

11.4

9.9-13.1

Western NC

473

113

23.2

19.1-27.9

116

25.1

20.7-30.0

140

27.2

22.8-32.1

13.6

9.8-18.5

10.9

8.0-14.6

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

286

23.7

18.4-29.8

25.6

20.0-32.1

26.3

20.8-32.6

14.0

9.2-20.9

10.5

7.0-15.3

Northwest

804

188

21.2

18.2-24.6

201

25.2

21.8-29.0

248

31.2

27.5-35.2

10.3

8.0-13.2

12.1

9.6-15.0

Charlotte

632

174

26.6

22.7-30.9

156

25.1

21.3-29.3

176

28.3

24.4-32.7

10.8

8.2-14.1

9.2

7.0-12.0

Greensboro

520

123

23.0

18.8-27.8

129

25.5

21.0-30.6

167

32.1

27.3-37.3

8.7

6.0-12.5

10.7

7.8-14.5

Southern Regional

379

22.5

17.8-28.0

102

24.5

19.7-30.0

112

31.0

25.4-37.3

13.1

9.0-18.6

8.9

5.7-13.7

Coastal

204

32.4

25.8-39.8

21.8

16.2-28.7

29.3

22.8-36.8

9.8

5.7-16.4

6.7

3.7-11.8

Wake

555

136

24.1

20.0-28.8

132

23.8

19.6-28.6

166

28.7

24.3-33.5

10.3

7.7-13.6

13.1

10.0-17.0

Area L

165

22.5

15.9-30.8

28.0

20.2-37.3

24.9

18.0-33.3

12.6

7.3-20.9

12.0

5.8-23.3

Eastern

476

121

24.4

20.3-29.1

122

26.3

21.9-31.3

150

31.7

27.0-36.8

7.3

5.1-10.4

10.2

7.4-13.9

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*This question was asked only of male respondents who reported being age 40 and older.

^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.

****Learn about the NC Area Health Education Centers Program

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