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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)*

Folic Acid

Do any of the vitamin pills or supplements you take contain folic acid?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,580 387 25.8 22.7-29.2 711 44.7 41.0-48.4 482 29.5 26.2-33.1
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 66 21 41.2 23.8-61.1 30 40.6 25.6-57.6 15 18.2 9.6-31.6
GENDER
Male 23 9 47.4 22.7-73.5 7 27.7 11.0-54.4 7 24.8 10.1-49.3
Female 43 12 36.8 15.3-65.3 23 49.8 27.5-72.2 8 13.4 5.4-29.5
RACE
White 57 19 41.9 24.0-62.2 25 39.7 24.5-57.2 13 18.4 9.6-32.3
Other 9 2 20.8 4.2-61.1 5 67.7 32.0-90.4 2 11.4 2.4-40.2
AGE
18-44 11 4 81.6 50.7-95.0 5 14.0 3.5-42.1 2 4.4 0.6-24.9
45+ 55 17 24.4 14.1-38.8 25 51.7 36.4-66.7 13 23.9 13.2-39.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 29 7 38.5 12.3-73.6 10 25.5 10.5-50.1 12 36.0 15.6-63.1
Some College + 36 14 44.4 24.2-66.7 19 50.5 29.6-71.2 3 5.1 1.3-18.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 42 13 44.8 21.5-70.6 15 27.7 13.6-48.1 14 27.6 13.4-48.4
$50,000+ 18 6 33.6 13.8-61.5 12 66.4 38.5-86.2 0 0.0 . - .

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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported taking vitamins but not multivitamins. Due to large number of responses, data for DNK/Not sure category are also presented.

^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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