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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Orange 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
-Orange County 419 292 70.6 64.4-76.2 49 12.5 8.9-17.4 40 8.4 5.9-12.0 18 5.2 2.3-11.3 20 3.2 2.0- 5.2
GENDER
Male 158 112 67.4 56.8-76.4 21 15.3 9.3-24.2 9 6.3 3.1-12.4 5 6.4 1.8-20.6 11 4.6 2.4- 8.5
Female 261 180 73.9 67.2-79.6 28 9.8 6.5-14.5 31 10.5 7.0-15.5 13 4.0 2.2- 7.0 9 1.8 0.9- 3.7
RACE
White 348 242 72.5 66.7-77.6 40 11.0 7.8-15.5 35 9.7 6.6-13.9 14 3.3 1.8- 5.8 17 3.5 2.1- 5.9
Other 68 48 64.7 45.5-80.1 8 16.8 7.2-34.4 5 4.2 1.2-13.4 4 12.0 2.7-40.1 3 2.3 0.6- 8.5
AGE
18-44 166 117 69.9 59.6-78.5 23 14.7 9.1-22.9 20 10.2 6.2-16.2 5 5.1 1.2-19.1 1 0.2 0.0- 1.2
45+ 250 173 71.6 64.9-77.5 25 9.4 6.0-14.5 20 6.5 3.9-10.5 13 5.4 3.0- 9.7 19 7.1 4.3-11.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 90 57 66.3 50.0-79.4 9 13.2 5.6-28.4 8 4.2 1.8- 9.7 7 11.0 2.9-33.4 9 5.3 2.4-11.3
Some College + 328 234 72.2 66.1-77.5 40 12.3 8.8-17.0 32 10.1 6.8-14.7 11 3.0 1.6- 5.7 11 2.4 1.3- 4.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 165 111 67.5 55.7-77.3 21 14.0 7.9-23.6 12 5.7 2.9-11.1 8 7.6 2.2-22.9 13 5.3 2.8- 9.6
$50,000+ 193 138 72.4 64.9-78.9 24 11.8 7.7-17.7 20 10.6 6.5-16.9 8 3.9 1.8- 8.0 3 1.2 0.4- 3.8

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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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