SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

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

Derived Variables and Risk Factors

Current Smoker*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
No Yes
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,569 12,436 77.9 77.0-78.9 3,133 22.1 21.1-23.0
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 567 431 77.6 72.7-81.9 136 22.4 18.1-27.3
GENDER
Male 218 165 75.4 67.0-82.3 53 24.6 17.7-33.0
Female 349 266 79.6 73.9-84.3 83 20.4 15.7-26.1
RACE
White 504 391 77.7 72.5-82.1 113 22.3 17.9-27.5
Other 62 39 76.0 58.7-87.6 23 24.0 12.4-41.3
AGE
18-44 137 88 73.9 64.1-81.8 49 26.1 18.2-35.9
45+ 429 342 80.0 74.5-84.5 87 20.0 15.5-25.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 187 71.9 63.6-78.9 75 28.1 21.1-36.4
Some College + 301 240 82.6 76.6-87.3 61 17.4 12.7-23.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 366 262 71.0 64.1-77.0 104 29.0 23.0-35.9
$50,000+ 126 106 89.5 82.4-94.0 20 10.5 6.0-17.6

Back to Derived Variables and Risk Factors.

*Data in this table were derived from the tobacco use questions 1 and 2.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 19NOV07.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook