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

Skin Cancer Prevention Module (Asked July--December Only)

Have you had a sunburn within the past 12 months?
- include anytime that even a small part of your skin was red for more than 12 hours?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 7,506 1,732 29.1 27.5-30.7 5,774 70.9 69.3-72.5
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 262 55 29.6 22.0-38.6 207 70.4 61.4-78.0
GENDER
Male 100 26 31.1 20.5-44.1 74 68.9 55.9-79.5
Female 162 29 28.4 18.1-41.5 133 71.6 58.5-81.9
RACE
White 236 51 30.8 22.8-40.2 185 69.2 59.8-77.2
Other 26 4 14.6 4.1-40.5 22 85.4 59.5-95.9
AGE
18-44 63 21 38.7 24.1-55.7 42 61.3 44.3-75.9
45+ 199 34 23.1 16.3-31.6 165 76.9 68.4-83.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 124 19 26.7 15.4-42.1 105 73.3 57.9-84.6
Some College + 136 36 33.2 23.9-44.0 100 66.8 56.0-76.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 168 30 26.2 17.5-37.3 138 73.8 62.7-82.5
$50,000+ 58 17 35.3 22.0-51.5 41 64.7 48.5-78.0

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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.


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

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