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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Onslow 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
-Onslow County 389 240 66.7 60.8-72.2 42 11.4 8.0-16.0 39 8.9 6.3-12.5 37 8.1 5.7-11.4 31 4.9 3.3- 7.2
GENDER
Male 135 97 76.5 67.2-83.8 10 9.5 4.8-17.9 11 6.6 3.4-12.3 9 4.3 2.1- 8.6 8 3.1 1.5- 6.6
Female 254 143 57.7 50.6-64.5 32 13.2 9.1-18.7 28 11.1 7.4-16.3 28 11.6 7.8-16.8 23 6.4 4.1-10.0
RACE
White 302 182 66.0 59.1-72.2 37 12.4 8.5-17.8 33 10.0 6.8-14.4 27 7.3 4.8-10.9 23 4.4 2.7- 6.9
Other 85 58 70.4 58.2-80.2 5 7.5 3.0-17.5 6 4.8 2.0-11.0 9 10.9 5.6-20.4 7 6.4 2.8-13.8
AGE
18-44 196 126 70.0 62.1-76.8 33 14.8 10.0-21.3 16 6.9 4.0-11.6 15 6.1 3.6-10.2 6 2.3 1.0- 5.1
45+ 191 113 60.0 52.0-67.5 9 4.4 2.2- 8.7 23 13.2 8.6-19.8 22 12.3 7.9-18.5 24 10.0 6.5-15.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 170 106 69.1 59.8-77.2 18 12.0 6.8-20.1 13 5.4 2.9- 9.8 19 8.9 5.4-14.4 14 4.6 2.5- 8.3
Some College + 219 134 64.7 57.0-71.6 24 10.9 7.0-16.5 26 12.0 7.9-17.8 18 7.4 4.5-11.9 17 5.1 3.0- 8.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 235 142 66.3 58.9-73.0 22 9.0 5.6-14.2 22 8.0 4.9-12.9 27 10.6 7.0-15.5 22 6.0 3.8- 9.5
$50,000+ 109 74 72.2 62.7-80.1 16 14.0 8.4-22.5 10 8.1 4.3-14.8 6 4.1 1.8- 9.1 3 1.6 0.5- 5.0

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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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