SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Northeast Partnership I**

Secondhand Smoke Policy

Which of the following best describes your place of works' official smoking policy for work areas?*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Not allowed Allowed in some areas Allowed in all areas No official policy
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 7,339 6,650 89.2 88.1-90.3 364 6.0 5.1- 7.0 139 2.0 1.6- 2.5 186 2.8 2.3- 3.4
-Northeast Partnership I 166 151 91.3 85.4-94.9 7 4.4 2.0- 9.4 5 2.8 1.1- 6.9 3 1.5 0.4- 5.1
GENDER
Male 54 46 89.3 78.8-94.9 4 5.7 2.0-15.1 3 3.7 1.1-11.2 1 1.4 0.2- 9.2
Female 112 105 93.5 86.5-97.0 3 3.0 0.9- 8.9 2 1.9 0.4- 7.8 2 1.6 0.3- 7.5
RACE
White 80 73 90.9 81.1-95.9 4 5.4 1.9-14.6 3 3.7 1.2-11.1 0 0.0 . - .
Other 85 78 91.9 83.5-96.3 3 3.5 1.1-10.5 2 2.0 0.5- 8.6 2 2.6 0.6- 9.8
AGE
18-44 73 68 94.6 86.6-97.9 4 4.8 1.7-12.9 1 0.6 0.1- 4.2 0 0.0 . - .
45+ 93 83 87.5 77.6-93.4 3 3.9 1.2-12.3 4 5.4 2.0-13.6 3 3.2 0.9-10.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 67 62 94.2 85.0-97.9 4 5.4 1.9-14.8 0 0.0 . - . 1 0.4 0.1- 2.8
Some College + 99 89 88.7 79.9-94.0 3 3.5 1.1-10.8 5 5.3 2.1-12.4 2 2.4 0.6- 9.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 97 92 95.5 88.9-98.3 1 0.8 0.1- 5.6 1 1.2 0.2- 8.1 3 2.5 0.7- 8.4
$50,000+ 54 45 82.5 68.7-91.0 5 10.4 4.2-23.8 4 7.0 2.6-17.9 0 0.0 . - .

Back to Secondhand Smoke Policy.

* This question was asked only of respondents who reported working indoors most of the time.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook