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

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

In the past 12 months, have you tried to get a tan using a tanning lamp or tanning machine,
whether it was at a tanning salon, at your home, or elsewhere?n 12 hours?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 7,522 470 6.8 6.1- 7.7 7,052 93.2 92.3-93.9
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 261 17 5.6 3.2- 9.5 244 94.4 90.5-96.8
GENDER
Male 100 3 2.9 0.8-10.5 97 97.1 89.5-99.2
Female 161 14 7.8 4.2-13.8 147 92.2 86.2-95.8
RACE
White 235 15 5.4 3.0- 9.5 220 94.6 90.5-97.0
Other 26 2 7.3 1.1-35.2 24 92.7 64.8-98.9
AGE
18-44 63 7 6.1 2.4-14.4 56 93.9 85.6-97.6
45+ 198 10 5.2 2.6-10.0 188 94.8 90.0-97.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 123 10 7.5 3.7-14.7 113 92.5 85.3-96.3
Some College + 136 7 3.6 1.4- 8.6 129 96.4 91.4-98.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 167 8 3.9 1.7- 9.0 159 96.1 91.0-98.3
$50,000+ 58 7 13.4 6.0-27.1 51 86.6 72.9-94.0

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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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