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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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	Total Respond.^	Past month	Past year	Past 2 years	2+ years ago	Never
North Carolina	1,834	291	15.2	13.2-17.4	1,072	56.1	53.2-59.1	217	11.9	10.0-14.0	196	12.9	10.8-15.3	58	4.0	2.8- 5.5
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance	50	5	8.5	3.4-19.7	31	55.6	38.5-71.4	4	12.0	4.2-29.5	8	13.4	6.0-27.5	2	10.6	2.1-39.7
Buncombe	31	7	24.7	10.4-48.0	18	58.4	37.3-76.8	4	13.1	4.1-34.5	2	3.8	0.9-15.2	0	0.0	. - .
Cabarrus	45	9	26.9	10.7-53.0	23	44.9	26.4-64.9	6	12.4	4.8-28.4	6	14.9	4.7-38.6	1	0.9	0.1- 6.1
Catawba	47	9	19.6	9.5-36.1	25	57.9	40.8-73.2	6	8.6	3.6-19.0	4	8.6	3.0-22.2	3	5.3	1.5-16.6
Cumberland	53	10	21.3	10.8-37.8	35	57.4	37.7-75.0	5	17.6	4.6-48.8	3	3.7	1.0-12.6	0	0.0	. - .
Davidson	48	7	25.1	9.2-52.5	29	48.8	30.3-67.6	8	16.5	7.2-33.5	3	7.9	2.3-24.0	1	1.8	0.2-11.8
Durham	28	6	24.7	10.3-48.3	15	48.0	26.3-70.4	5	23.3	6.7-56.5	2	4.0	1.0-15.5	0	0.0	. - .
Forsyth	40	7	14.1	6.2-28.9	21	38.4	23.6-55.7	3	10.9	3.1-31.9	9	36.5	19.7-57.4	0	0.0	. - .
Gaston	54	9	17.2	8.4-32.0	35	60.0	43.8-74.3	4	8.1	2.4-23.5	4	10.3	3.4-27.2	2	4.5	1.0-17.3
Guilford	48	8	15.7	7.2-30.7	26	57.7	41.0-72.8	6	7.8	3.3-17.7	6	13.9	5.4-31.6	2	4.8	0.9-21.1
Iredell	46	7	13.9	6.3-28.0	24	56.3	40.2-71.1	10	20.1	10.4-35.4	5	9.7	3.5-24.0	0	0.0	. - .
Johnston	42	7	13.7	5.7-29.6	25	62.2	42.9-78.2	7	17.2	7.5-34.6	2	4.5	1.1-17.3	1	2.4	0.3-15.5
Mecklenburg	67	14	18.1	10.2-29.8	29	47.8	34.7-61.1	14	16.7	9.6-27.4	7	9.5	4.4-19.4	3	8.0	2.3-24.0
New Hanover	44	5	8.3	3.2-19.9	31	74.9	57.9-86.6	4	8.9	3.0-23.4	4	7.9	2.7-21.1	0	0.0	. - .
Onslow	44	9	17.9	9.0-32.7	26	65.0	48.8-78.3	6	12.0	5.1-25.6	2	3.8	0.9-14.0	1	1.4	0.2- 9.3
Orange	32	12	33.0	18.5-51.8	12	37.2	21.0-56.9	4	18.4	7.2-39.7	3	8.8	2.6-25.9	1	2.5	0.3-16.1
Pitt	49	7	12.0	5.2-25.1	31	65.6	49.4-78.8	5	12.0	4.4-28.5	4	6.7	2.3-18.0	2	3.8	0.9-15.4
Randolph	35	7	20.1	8.9-39.3	19	54.5	36.4-71.5	5	13.9	5.3-31.8	4	11.5	4.1-28.0	0	0.0	. - .
Robeson	50	2	7.4	1.9-25.0	35	69.9	54.0-82.1	7	9.6	4.3-20.2	3	8.1	2.3-24.5	3	5.0	1.5-15.3
Rowan	68	12	15.4	8.4-26.5	39	56.5	42.5-69.5	4	4.5	1.6-12.1	10	19.9	10.0-35.6	3	3.7	1.1-11.8
Union	32	1	3.3	0.5-20.7	20	65.4	41.0-83.8	2	2.8	0.7-11.4	8	25.7	9.6-53.1	1	2.7	0.4-17.2
Wake	47	5	13.3	5.5-28.7	33	62.6	45.4-77.2	3	9.8	3.0-27.4	4	9.6	2.8-28.2	2	4.6	1.1-16.9
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	46	12	22.4	12.3-37.2	21	42.8	28.5-58.4	5	14.1	5.7-31.0	5	13.0	5.4-28.2	3	7.7	2.1-24.3
Northeast Partnership II***	74	10	10.5	5.3-19.7	44	66.7	54.4-77.0	8	7.8	3.6-15.9	7	10.4	4.8-21.2	5	4.6	1.9-11.1
Northeast Partnership I***	93	14	15.5	9.0-25.6	58	55.2	43.1-66.8	10	11.4	5.8-21.3	7	7.4	3.4-15.4	4	10.4	3.5-26.9
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	63	9	12.9	5.8-26.0	39	54.6	38.7-69.6	8	12.9	5.3-27.9	5	16.1	5.8-37.1	2	3.6	0.7-17.1
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	67	9	12.2	5.3-25.6	39	54.4	40.2-67.9	9	13.5	6.5-25.8	9	17.3	8.8-31.2	1	2.6	0.4-16.5
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	48	8	16.7	7.9-31.9	28	62.0	46.4-75.5	6	9.1	3.8-20.0	4	7.9	2.8-20.1	2	4.3	0.9-19.0
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	48	8	11.2	5.1-22.9	26	45.5	28.1-64.1	7	16.6	7.4-32.9	7	26.7	9.9-54.8	0	0.0	. - .
Chatham/Lee/Moore	62	9	12.6	5.8-25.4	36	57.3	42.4-70.9	5	13.7	5.0-32.2	10	13.1	6.8-23.9	2	3.3	0.8-12.5
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	84	10	11.0	5.3-21.4	56	68.4	56.0-78.6	6	5.9	2.5-13.1	9	11.2	5.3-22.0	3	3.5	1.0-11.8
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	61	14	20.8	12.0-33.7	31	51.0	36.6-65.3	9	11.4	5.6-21.8	5	10.9	3.7-28.1	2	5.9	1.4-22.0
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	48	6	14.6	5.7-32.5	28	51.4	35.3-67.2	5	9.1	3.6-21.3	6	15.0	5.8-33.5	3	9.8	3.0-27.6
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	71	9	6.8	3.3-13.4	40	59.4	45.7-71.7	10	12.2	6.1-23.0	9	14.4	7.0-27.2	3	7.3	2.0-23.0
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	69	8	13.7	6.3-27.1	44	56.7	42.6-69.8	7	10.8	4.8-22.8	10	18.9	9.8-33.3	0	0.0	. - .
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP***
Yes	180	27	14.0	9.4-20.3	107	58.5	50.0-66.5	21	11.3	7.0-17.5	15	9.2	5.4-15.3	10	7.1	3.2-14.9
No	1,654	264	15.3	13.2-17.6	965	55.9	52.8-59.0	196	11.9	10.0-14.2	181	13.2	11.0-15.8	48	3.7	2.6- 5.2
NC REGIONS**
Eastern NC	679	104	14.7	11.8-18.2	420	60.7	55.9-65.2	78	12.0	8.9-16.2	55	9.4	7.0-12.6	22	3.1	1.9- 5.2
Piedmont	966	157	15.4	12.7-18.5	544	54.2	50.0-58.3	116	11.6	9.3-14.4	117	14.1	11.2-17.7	32	4.7	3.1- 7.2
Western NC	189	30	15.5	10.2-22.8	108	53.3	44.7-61.7	23	12.5	7.8-19.3	24	15.9	10.2-24.1	4	2.9	1.0- 8.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)
Mountain AHEC***	100	15	16.6	9.3-27.7	62	57.1	45.3-68.2	11	11.4	5.9-21.0	12	14.9	7.9-26.2	0	0.0	. - .
Northwest	372	62	15.9	11.6-21.4	202	48.4	41.9-54.9	48	12.5	8.8-17.5	46	18.6	13.2-25.6	14	4.7	2.4- 8.8
Charlotte	261	39	14.8	10.2-20.9	150	58.7	51.2-65.9	33	10.6	7.2-15.2	31	10.6	7.0-16.0	8	5.3	2.2-12.1
Greensboro	230	45	17.0	12.0-23.7	124	54.5	45.8-62.9	26	10.2	6.7-15.3	29	14.5	8.5-23.7	6	3.8	1.4-10.2
Southern Regional	208	28	16.0	10.4-23.8	134	58.8	49.4-67.6	19	11.5	5.5-22.5	18	9.0	5.3-14.8	9	4.7	2.1-10.0
Coastal	91	12	12.1	6.3-21.9	60	70.0	58.3-79.5	10	9.7	5.0-18.0	8	7.7	3.6-15.6	1	0.5	0.1- 3.6
Wake	200	28	13.3	8.4-20.4	120	55.1	45.8-64.1	26	14.7	9.0-23.0	19	11.2	6.0-19.7	7	5.8	2.6-12.4
Area L	108	16	14.9	8.7-24.2	64	58.3	47.3-68.6	14	14.4	7.7-25.1	9	8.7	4.4-16.6	5	3.7	1.5- 9.1
Eastern	264	46	14.5	10.5-19.7	156	58.2	50.9-65.2	30	11.6	7.6-17.3	24	12.7	8.1-19.3	8	3.0	1.3- 7.0

Total
Respond.^

Past month

Past year

Past 2 years

2+ years ago

Never

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

1,834

291

15.2

13.2-17.4

1,072

56.1

53.2-59.1

217

11.9

10.0-14.0

196

12.9

10.8-15.3

4.0

2.8- 5.5

COUNTY/REGIONS

Alamance

8.5

3.4-19.7

55.6

38.5-71.4

12.0

4.2-29.5

13.4

6.0-27.5

10.6

2.1-39.7

Buncombe

24.7

10.4-48.0

58.4

37.3-76.8

13.1

4.1-34.5

3.8

0.9-15.2

0.0

. - .

Cabarrus

26.9

10.7-53.0

44.9

26.4-64.9

12.4

4.8-28.4

14.9

4.7-38.6

0.9

0.1- 6.1

Catawba

19.6

9.5-36.1

57.9

40.8-73.2

8.6

3.6-19.0

8.6

3.0-22.2

5.3

1.5-16.6

Cumberland

21.3

10.8-37.8

57.4

37.7-75.0

17.6

4.6-48.8

3.7

1.0-12.6

0.0

. - .

Davidson

25.1

9.2-52.5

48.8

30.3-67.6

16.5

7.2-33.5

7.9

2.3-24.0

1.8

0.2-11.8

Durham

24.7

10.3-48.3

48.0

26.3-70.4

23.3

6.7-56.5

4.0

1.0-15.5

0.0

. - .

Forsyth

14.1

6.2-28.9

38.4

23.6-55.7

10.9

3.1-31.9

36.5

19.7-57.4

0.0

. - .

Gaston

17.2

8.4-32.0

60.0

43.8-74.3

8.1

2.4-23.5

10.3

3.4-27.2

4.5

1.0-17.3

Guilford

15.7

7.2-30.7

57.7

41.0-72.8

7.8

3.3-17.7

13.9

5.4-31.6

4.8

0.9-21.1

Iredell

13.9

6.3-28.0

56.3

40.2-71.1

20.1

10.4-35.4

9.7

3.5-24.0

0.0

. - .

Johnston

13.7

5.7-29.6

62.2

42.9-78.2

17.2

7.5-34.6

4.5

1.1-17.3

2.4

0.3-15.5

Mecklenburg

18.1

10.2-29.8

47.8

34.7-61.1

16.7

9.6-27.4

9.5

4.4-19.4

8.0

2.3-24.0

New Hanover

8.3

3.2-19.9

74.9

57.9-86.6

8.9

3.0-23.4

7.9

2.7-21.1

0.0

. - .

Onslow

17.9

9.0-32.7

65.0

48.8-78.3

12.0

5.1-25.6

3.8

0.9-14.0

1.4

0.2- 9.3

Orange

33.0

18.5-51.8

37.2

21.0-56.9

18.4

7.2-39.7

8.8

2.6-25.9

2.5

0.3-16.1

Pitt

12.0

5.2-25.1

65.6

49.4-78.8

12.0

4.4-28.5

6.7

2.3-18.0

3.8

0.9-15.4

Randolph

20.1

8.9-39.3

54.5

36.4-71.5

13.9

5.3-31.8

11.5

4.1-28.0

0.0

. - .

Robeson

7.4

1.9-25.0

69.9

54.0-82.1

9.6

4.3-20.2

8.1

2.3-24.5

5.0

1.5-15.3

Rowan

15.4

8.4-26.5

56.5

42.5-69.5

4.5

1.6-12.1

19.9

10.0-35.6

3.7

1.1-11.8

Union

3.3

0.5-20.7

65.4

41.0-83.8

2.8

0.7-11.4

25.7

9.6-53.1

2.7

0.4-17.2

Wake

13.3

5.5-28.7

62.6

45.4-77.2

9.8

3.0-27.4

9.6

2.8-28.2

4.6

1.1-16.9

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

22.4

12.3-37.2

42.8

28.5-58.4

14.1

5.7-31.0

13.0

5.4-28.2

7.7

2.1-24.3

Northeast Partnership II***

10.5

5.3-19.7

66.7

54.4-77.0

7.8

3.6-15.9

10.4

4.8-21.2

4.6

1.9-11.1

Northeast Partnership I***

15.5

9.0-25.6

55.2

43.1-66.8

11.4

5.8-21.3

7.4

3.4-15.4

10.4

3.5-26.9

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

12.9

5.8-26.0

54.6

38.7-69.6

12.9

5.3-27.9

16.1

5.8-37.1

3.6

0.7-17.1

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

12.2

5.3-25.6

54.4

40.2-67.9

13.5

6.5-25.8

17.3

8.8-31.2

2.6

0.4-16.5

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

16.7

7.9-31.9

62.0

46.4-75.5

9.1

3.8-20.0

7.9

2.8-20.1

4.3

0.9-19.0

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

11.2

5.1-22.9

45.5

28.1-64.1

16.6

7.4-32.9

26.7

9.9-54.8

0.0

. - .

Chatham/Lee/Moore

12.6

5.8-25.4

57.3

42.4-70.9

13.7

5.0-32.2

13.1

6.8-23.9

3.3

0.8-12.5

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

11.0

5.3-21.4

68.4

56.0-78.6

5.9

2.5-13.1

11.2

5.3-22.0

3.5

1.0-11.8

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

20.8

12.0-33.7

51.0

36.6-65.3

11.4

5.6-21.8

10.9

3.7-28.1

5.9

1.4-22.0

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

14.6

5.7-32.5

51.4

35.3-67.2

9.1

3.6-21.3

15.0

5.8-33.5

9.8

3.0-27.6

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

6.8

3.3-13.4

59.4

45.7-71.7

12.2

6.1-23.0

14.4

7.0-27.2

7.3

2.0-23.0

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

13.7

6.3-27.1

56.7

42.6-69.8

10.8

4.8-22.8

18.9

9.8-33.3

0.0

. - .

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP***

Yes

180

14.0

9.4-20.3

107

58.5

50.0-66.5

11.3

7.0-17.5

9.2

5.4-15.3

7.1

3.2-14.9

1,654

264

15.3

13.2-17.6

965

55.9

52.8-59.0

196

11.9

10.0-14.2

181

13.2

11.0-15.8

3.7

2.6- 5.2

NC REGIONS**

Eastern NC

679

104

14.7

11.8-18.2

420

60.7

55.9-65.2

12.0

8.9-16.2

9.4

7.0-12.6

3.1

1.9- 5.2

Piedmont

966

157

15.4

12.7-18.5

544

54.2

50.0-58.3

116

11.6

9.3-14.4

117

14.1

11.2-17.7

4.7

3.1- 7.2

Western NC

189

15.5

10.2-22.8

108

53.3

44.7-61.7

12.5

7.8-19.3

15.9

10.2-24.1

2.9

1.0- 8.1

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)

Mountain AHEC***

100

16.6

9.3-27.7

57.1

45.3-68.2

11.4

5.9-21.0

14.9

7.9-26.2

0.0

. - .

Northwest

372

15.9

11.6-21.4

202

48.4

41.9-54.9

12.5

8.8-17.5

18.6

13.2-25.6

4.7

2.4- 8.8

Charlotte

261

14.8

10.2-20.9

150

58.7

51.2-65.9

10.6

7.2-15.2

10.6

7.0-16.0

5.3

2.2-12.1

Greensboro

230

17.0

12.0-23.7

124

54.5

45.8-62.9

10.2

6.7-15.3

14.5

8.5-23.7

3.8

1.4-10.2

Southern Regional

208

16.0

10.4-23.8

134

58.8

49.4-67.6

11.5

5.5-22.5

9.0

5.3-14.8

4.7

2.1-10.0

Coastal

12.1

6.3-21.9

70.0

58.3-79.5

9.7

5.0-18.0

7.7

3.6-15.6

0.5

0.1- 3.6

Wake

200

13.3

8.4-20.4

120

55.1

45.8-64.1

14.7

9.0-23.0

11.2

6.0-19.7

5.8

2.6-12.4

Area L

108

14.9

8.7-24.2

58.3

47.3-68.6

14.4

7.7-25.1

8.7

4.4-16.6

3.7

1.5- 9.1

Eastern

264

14.5

10.5-19.7

156

58.2

50.9-65.2

11.6

7.6-17.3

12.7

8.1-19.3

3.0

1.3- 7.0

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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.

**Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

***Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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