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

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 15,296 10,048 67.2 66.1-68.2 1,322 9.2 8.6- 9.9 1,393 9.6 9.0-10.4 1,117 6.8 6.2- 7.3 1,416 7.2 6.7- 7.7
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 556 358 66.9 61.4-71.9 39 7.9 5.2-11.7 42 8.0 5.2-12.1 52 7.8 5.5-11.0 65 9.5 7.1-12.6
GENDER
Male 216 152 73.5 65.5-80.2 13 7.5 4.0-13.6 11 4.6 2.0-10.3 16 6.4 3.3-11.9 24 8.0 4.9-12.7
Female 340 206 61.0 53.6-67.9 26 8.2 4.8-13.8 31 10.9 6.6-17.6 36 9.1 6.0-13.4 41 10.8 7.5-15.4
RACE
White 495 316 65.4 59.6-70.7 35 8.3 5.5-12.5 40 8.5 5.5-12.9 45 8.0 5.5-11.4 59 9.8 7.3-13.1
Other 60 41 86.2 74.8-93.0 4 1.8 0.6- 5.2 2 1.0 0.2- 4.7 7 5.3 1.8-14.2 6 5.7 1.9-15.6
AGE
18-44 134 87 70.5 59.7-79.5 13 8.9 4.3-17.6 11 9.6 4.4-19.7 16 6.6 3.5-12.2 7 4.3 1.8- 9.8
45+ 422 271 64.5 58.7-69.9 26 7.2 4.5-11.2 31 6.9 4.4-10.6 36 8.5 5.6-12.8 58 12.9 9.6-17.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 254 147 60.3 51.5-68.6 16 7.9 4.5-13.7 17 8.2 3.9-16.5 27 9.6 5.7-15.7 47 13.9 9.7-19.5
Some College + 300 210 72.8 66.1-78.6 23 7.9 4.4-13.8 24 7.5 4.6-12.0 25 6.2 3.9- 9.6 18 5.6 3.3- 9.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 357 211 61.0 53.8-67.7 25 8.1 4.7-13.5 30 10.0 6.0-16.3 38 9.2 6.0-13.9 53 11.7 8.4-16.0
$50,000+ 126 94 73.5 63.3-81.7 12 11.4 6.0-20.6 7 5.3 2.1-12.8 8 5.2 2.4-10.8 5 4.6 1.9-10.7

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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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