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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC*

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 2,514 1,597 65.8 63.3-68.3 197 8.1 6.8- 9.7 277 10.9 9.3-12.8 207 7.6 6.4- 9.0 236 7.5 6.4- 8.9
-Mtn. AHEC 909 583 66.9 62.7-70.8 69 7.8 5.7-10.5 73 8.3 6.0-11.3 80 8.1 6.1-10.7 104 8.9 7.0-11.2
GENDER
Male 344 237 72.5 66.2-78.0 22 6.9 4.2-11.2 20 5.2 2.9- 9.0 26 7.7 4.7-12.4 39 7.8 5.3-11.3
Female 565 346 61.9 56.2-67.3 47 8.6 5.8-12.5 53 11.1 7.6-15.9 54 8.5 6.1-11.7 65 9.9 7.3-13.2
RACE
White 810 520 65.8 61.3-70.0 63 8.2 6.0-11.2 64 8.4 6.0-11.7 67 8.2 6.1-11.0 96 9.3 7.3-11.8
Other 95 61 77.9 66.8-86.1 6 3.3 1.2- 9.1 8 6.7 2.7-15.6 12 6.7 3.2-13.8 8 5.3 2.2-12.4
AGE
18-44 238 161 71.6 63.7-78.3 21 8.1 4.6-13.7 24 10.0 5.9-16.6 25 7.5 4.5-12.3 7 2.8 1.2- 6.3
45+ 671 422 63.5 58.8-67.8 48 7.6 5.4-10.6 49 7.0 5.0- 9.8 55 8.6 6.1-11.8 97 13.4 10.6-16.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 378 221 61.7 54.5-68.5 25 7.3 4.5-11.5 28 8.3 4.7-14.3 37 9.7 6.2-14.9 67 13.0 9.6-17.4
Some College + 528 361 71.1 66.0-75.6 44 8.2 5.5-12.2 44 8.1 5.7-11.5 42 6.8 4.8- 9.6 37 5.7 3.9- 8.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 552 321 60.9 55.2-66.3 41 7.8 5.1-11.7 50 10.2 7.0-14.9 57 9.8 6.9-13.7 83 11.3 8.7-14.5
$50,000+ 232 175 74.3 67.0-80.5 21 10.5 6.4-16.6 15 5.8 3.2-10.5 13 5.6 3.1-10.1 8 3.8 1.8- 7.6

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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.


*Mountain AHEC: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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