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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Northeast Partnership I**

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
-Northeast Partnership I 496 311 66.0 60.3-71.4 38 10.1 6.1-16.2 36 5.8 4.0- 8.3 47 8.3 5.9-11.5 64 9.8 7.4-12.9
GENDER
Male 173 125 71.4 61.2-79.8 13 11.6 5.2-23.8 5 2.3 0.9- 5.9 13 7.1 3.9-12.6 17 7.5 4.4-12.6
Female 323 186 60.7 54.4-66.7 25 8.6 5.2-13.9 31 9.2 6.3-13.3 34 9.4 6.5-13.6 47 12.1 8.9-16.2
RACE
White 230 160 68.3 58.2-76.8 22 16.3 8.7-28.5 16 5.4 3.1- 9.1 9 3.0 1.5- 5.9 23 7.0 4.4-11.1
Other 263 150 64.4 57.4-70.7 16 4.9 2.9- 8.3 20 6.1 3.7-10.0 37 12.6 8.7-18.0 40 12.0 8.4-16.7
AGE
18-44 141 101 69.3 56.9-79.5 13 16.2 7.6-31.3 14 6.6 3.7-11.5 7 5.0 2.1-11.6 6 2.9 1.1- 7.1
45+ 354 209 63.9 58.0-69.5 25 6.4 4.1- 9.7 22 5.3 3.3- 8.5 40 10.3 7.3-14.4 58 14.1 10.6-18.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 304 177 61.6 53.7-68.9 15 9.0 3.9-19.5 23 6.2 3.9- 9.9 38 10.6 7.3-15.2 51 12.6 9.1-17.0
Some College + 190 133 73.7 66.2-80.0 23 12.0 7.7-18.2 13 5.0 2.8- 8.7 9 4.4 2.0- 9.2 12 4.9 2.5- 9.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 319 190 63.4 55.7-70.4 23 10.5 5.3-19.7 23 5.3 3.3- 8.4 36 9.5 6.4-13.9 47 11.3 8.1-15.7
$50,000+ 92 70 77.8 67.5-85.6 11 11.1 5.8-20.1 9 8.9 4.5-16.9 2 2.2 0.5- 8.8 0 0.0 . - .

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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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