SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Robeson County

Alcohol Consumption

Considering all types of alcoholic beverages, how many times during the past 30 days did you have 5 or more drinks on an occasion?*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
None Once Twice 3-7 times 8-30 times
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,536 5,206 74.9 73.3-76.4 582 10.3 9.4-11.4 297 5.8 5.0- 6.7 312 6.2 5.4- 7.2 139 2.8 2.2- 3.5
-Robeson County 108 79 66.0 53.8-76.5 11 9.2 4.9-16.7 4 7.8 2.7-20.4 12 14.8 7.8-26.3 2 2.2 0.5- 8.2
GENDER
Male 54 32 55.6 39.8-70.4 6 9.6 4.1-20.6 3 8.9 2.5-27.4 11 22.5 11.7-38.8 2 3.4 0.8-12.8
Female 54 47 84.0 66.9-93.2 5 8.7 3.4-20.5 1 5.7 0.8-30.8 1 1.5 0.2-10.1 0 0.0 . - .
RACE
White 46 38 77.9 59.8-89.4 3 7.7 2.3-22.7 2 8.5 2.0-29.8 3 5.8 1.7-17.6 0 0.0 . - .
Other 62 41 59.2 43.3-73.4 8 10.1 4.7-20.3 2 7.3 1.6-27.4 9 20.0 9.8-36.5 2 3.4 0.8-12.7
AGE
18-44 65 44 65.2 50.1-77.7 10 11.4 5.8-21.2 4 11.1 3.9-27.9 5 9.2 3.4-22.5 2 3.1 0.8-11.6
45+ 43 35 68.0 46.1-84.1 1 4.3 0.6-24.8 0 0.0 . - . 7 27.7 12.6-50.6 0 0.0 . - .
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 53 35 59.8 43.2-74.4 5 6.9 2.6-17.0 3 8.3 2.5-23.7 8 20.9 9.7-39.2 2 4.1 1.0-15.1
Some College + 55 44 73.0 54.5-85.9 6 11.8 5.1-25.1 1 7.2 1.0-36.2 4 8.0 2.7-21.7 0 0.0 . - .
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 80 56 61.3 47.3-73.6 9 10.0 5.0-18.9 4 10.2 3.6-25.7 9 15.8 7.6-29.9 2 2.8 0.7-10.6
$50,000+ 17 15 83.0 49.6-96.0 1 12.0 1.8-51.1 0 0.0 . - . 1 5.0 0.7-28.7 0 0.0 . - .

Back to Alcohol Consumption.

* This question was asked only of respondents who reported drinking at least one drink in the last month.

^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