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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover County

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
-New Hanover County 445 294 66.2 60.6-71.3 47 11.7 8.3-16.2 49 11.0 8.0-15.0 33 6.3 4.2- 9.3 22 4.9 3.0- 7.8
GENDER
Male 161 112 70.3 61.5-77.8 17 12.7 7.4-20.9 19 11.5 7.1-17.9 2 0.8 0.2- 3.0 11 4.8 2.6- 8.9
Female 284 182 62.2 55.1-68.8 30 10.8 7.2-15.8 30 10.6 6.8-16.1 31 11.5 7.6-17.1 11 4.9 2.4- 9.7
RACE
White 375 245 64.6 58.5-70.3 39 10.9 7.5-15.6 48 13.3 9.6-18.0 23 5.6 3.4- 9.0 20 5.7 3.5- 9.1
Other 70 49 72.9 58.6-83.6 8 15.2 6.9-30.3 1 1.2 0.2- 8.2 10 9.2 4.4-18.4 2 1.5 0.4- 5.9
AGE
18-44 150 101 67.2 57.4-75.6 20 15.0 9.1-23.8 17 11.5 6.6-19.2 7 2.6 1.2- 5.7 5 3.7 1.4- 9.6
45+ 293 192 65.3 58.9-71.2 27 8.8 5.9-13.1 31 10.3 7.2-14.7 26 9.6 6.0-14.8 17 6.0 3.6- 9.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 144 88 59.8 49.3-69.5 11 10.8 5.2-21.0 16 11.9 6.5-20.7 16 10.3 5.7-17.9 13 7.2 4.0-12.6
Some College + 300 205 69.8 63.6-75.4 36 12.3 8.6-17.3 33 10.5 7.3-14.9 17 3.9 2.3- 6.4 9 3.5 1.6- 7.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 216 136 63.2 54.9-70.9 15 10.0 5.4-17.6 28 12.2 8.1-18.1 21 7.1 4.1-11.9 16 7.5 4.2-12.8
$50,000+ 163 111 66.5 57.5-74.4 28 16.2 10.9-23.4 16 11.6 6.5-20.0 6 4.2 1.7-10.2 2 1.5 0.4- 5.9

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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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