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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 1,798 | 325 | 17.7 | 15.5-20.0 | 408 | 23.7 | 21.2-26.3 | 636 | 33.4 | 30.7-36.2 | 429 | 25.3 | 22.7-28.1 |
COUNTY/REGIONS | |||||||||||||
Alamance | 48 | 13 | 31.0 | 16.4-50.6 | 9 | 15.4 | 7.6-28.6 | 17 | 37.0 | 22.7-53.9 | 9 | 16.7 | 8.2-30.9 |
Buncombe | 30 | 4 | 7.7 | 2.7-20.4 | 8 | 30.4 | 14.2-53.5 | 11 | 32.9 | 17.3-53.5 | 7 | 29.0 | 13.1-52.7 |
Cabarrus | 44 | 4 | 8.3 | 2.4-25.4 | 14 | 29.5 | 15.0-49.9 | 17 | 38.4 | 19.9-61.0 | 9 | 23.7 | 10.3-45.7 |
Catawba | 45 | 8 | 15.1 | 7.0-29.6 | 8 | 19.6 | 9.1-37.0 | 11 | 28.3 | 13.6-49.7 | 18 | 37.0 | 22.4-54.6 |
Cumberland | 53 | 11 | 19.8 | 10.0-35.4 | 14 | 18.6 | 9.9-32.3 | 24 | 44.6 | 28.0-62.5 | 4 | 17.0 | 4.0-50.2 |
Davidson | 48 | 9 | 14.4 | 6.3-29.7 | 9 | 36.7 | 18.2-60.1 | 19 | 30.3 | 17.4-47.3 | 11 | 18.6 | 9.4-33.5 |
Durham | 28 | 10 | 34.6 | 14.9-61.5 | 9 | 37.6 | 18.7-61.2 | 6 | 21.4 | 8.5-44.5 | 3 | 6.4 | 1.9-19.6 |
Forsyth | 38 | 8 | 29.1 | 14.3-50.0 | 7 | 15.2 | 6.8-30.4 | 13 | 25.2 | 13.6-41.7 | 10 | 30.6 | 15.1-52.2 |
Gaston | 53 | 8 | 17.3 | 7.5-34.9 | 13 | 22.0 | 12.0-36.9 | 16 | 32.3 | 19.2-48.8 | 16 | 28.4 | 16.6-44.1 |
Guilford | 48 | 8 | 18.0 | 8.8-33.2 | 12 | 20.9 | 11.2-35.7 | 17 | 39.7 | 24.6-57.0 | 11 | 21.5 | 11.3-36.9 |
Iredell | 46 | 9 | 16.2 | 8.1-30.0 | 9 | 13.3 | 6.7-24.9 | 18 | 42.9 | 27.7-59.5 | 10 | 27.6 | 15.3-44.5 |
Johnston | 40 | 6 | 14.7 | 5.7-32.8 | 7 | 13.0 | 5.7-26.9 | 14 | 29.5 | 15.8-48.2 | 13 | 42.8 | 23.2-65.1 |
Mecklenburg | 67 | 11 | 16.8 | 8.4-30.6 | 11 | 14.1 | 7.6-24.4 | 22 | 33.5 | 22.1-47.1 | 23 | 35.7 | 24.0-49.4 |
New Hanover | 43 | 9 | 18.1 | 8.7-34.1 | 10 | 20.1 | 9.6-37.4 | 19 | 49.6 | 29.8-69.5 | 5 | 12.1 | 4.6-28.1 |
Onslow | 43 | 8 | 17.7 | 8.0-34.5 | 3 | 9.2 | 3.0-25.1 | 22 | 53.5 | 36.8-69.5 | 10 | 19.6 | 10.2-34.4 |
Orange | 31 | 11 | 26.0 | 13.2-44.8 | 5 | 17.1 | 6.8-36.8 | 8 | 29.0 | 14.7-49.3 | 7 | 27.9 | 13.6-48.8 |
Pitt | 48 | 13 | 20.8 | 11.5-34.6 | 6 | 16.3 | 6.6-35.0 | 15 | 33.2 | 19.6-50.3 | 14 | 29.8 | 17.0-46.6 |
Randolph | 37 | 7 | 21.9 | 10.1-41.3 | 8 | 25.9 | 11.8-47.7 | 14 | 34.4 | 19.9-52.6 | 8 | 17.7 | 8.2-34.3 |
Robeson | 48 | 12 | 28.6 | 16.2-45.2 | 9 | 17.6 | 8.6-32.5 | 16 | 33.7 | 21.0-49.2 | 11 | 20.2 | 10.7-34.9 |
Rowan | 65 | 8 | 8.5 | 3.9-17.3 | 14 | 25.8 | 15.0-40.6 | 26 | 35.5 | 23.8-49.3 | 17 | 30.3 | 18.1-46.0 |
Union | 33 | 5 | 12.0 | 4.6-28.0 | 8 | 21.3 | 9.3-41.5 | 12 | 22.3 | 11.0-39.9 | 8 | 44.4 | 23.2-67.7 |
Wake | 49 | 11 | 24.4 | 13.1-41.0 | 13 | 25.5 | 13.8-42.4 | 14 | 29.9 | 16.8-47.3 | 11 | 20.1 | 10.5-35.1 |
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico | 44 | 10 | 23.9 | 12.9-40.2 | 10 | 27.8 | 15.2-45.2 | 11 | 21.2 | 11.5-35.9 | 13 | 27.0 | 15.5-42.9 |
Northeast Partnership II*** | 74 | 14 | 16.9 | 9.2-28.9 | 17 | 24.1 | 14.8-36.7 | 34 | 47.2 | 34.5-60.2 | 9 | 11.8 | 5.6-23.2 |
Northeast Partnership I*** | 92 | 12 | 11.4 | 6.2-20.0 | 18 | 17.7 | 10.9-27.6 | 42 | 50.2 | 38.5-61.8 | 20 | 20.7 | 13.0-31.2 |
Franklin/Nash/Wilson | 62 | 11 | 18.5 | 9.7-32.4 | 12 | 16.6 | 8.5-30.1 | 17 | 24.3 | 14.0-38.7 | 22 | 40.6 | 25.9-57.2 |
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne | 63 | 7 | 9.3 | 4.1-19.9 | 17 | 32.3 | 19.8-47.9 | 24 | 34.8 | 22.7-49.3 | 15 | 23.6 | 13.7-37.6 |
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender | 46 | 6 | 13.1 | 5.8-26.9 | 12 | 27.6 | 15.3-44.5 | 19 | 40.6 | 26.2-56.9 | 9 | 18.7 | 9.5-33.4 |
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance | 49 | 8 | 19.1 | 7.2-42.0 | 16 | 27.4 | 15.3-44.2 | 14 | 24.4 | 13.1-40.9 | 11 | 29.0 | 12.4-54.1 |
Chatham/Lee/Moore | 59 | 14 | 28.1 | 16.1-44.3 | 17 | 28.8 | 17.3-44.0 | 11 | 14.7 | 7.4-27.2 | 17 | 28.4 | 17.3-42.9 |
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly | 83 | 13 | 14.7 | 8.4-24.6 | 22 | 30.9 | 20.1-44.2 | 27 | 29.8 | 19.3-42.9 | 21 | 24.7 | 16.0-36.1 |
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin | 57 | 8 | 13.6 | 6.1-27.8 | 14 | 30.0 | 17.6-46.2 | 22 | 38.9 | 25.4-54.3 | 13 | 17.5 | 9.8-29.4 |
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes | 44 | 8 | 25.4 | 12.2-45.4 | 11 | 21.4 | 11.4-36.6 | 15 | 28.9 | 16.9-44.9 | 10 | 24.2 | 12.2-42.4 |
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln | 72 | 9 | 13.5 | 6.6-25.7 | 22 | 28.4 | 18.2-41.4 | 28 | 35.1 | 23.6-48.5 | 13 | 23.1 | 13.1-37.3 |
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 68 | 12 | 15.0 | 7.8-26.9 | 14 | 22.9 | 13.0-37.2 | 21 | 23.8 | 14.5-36.6 | 21 | 38.3 | 25.5-52.9 |
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP*** | |||||||||||||
Yes | 178 | 29 | 15.4 | 10.3-22.3 | 37 | 21.4 | 15.4-29.1 | 79 | 46.0 | 37.6-54.5 | 33 | 17.2 | 11.9-24.2 |
No | 1,620 | 296 | 17.9 | 15.6-20.4 | 371 | 23.9 | 21.3-26.7 | 557 | 32.3 | 29.4-35.2 | 396 | 26.0 | 23.3-29.0 |
NC REGIONS** | |||||||||||||
Eastern NC | 661 | 121 | 16.7 | 13.7-20.2 | 142 | 23.5 | 19.6-27.8 | 253 | 37.2 | 32.7-41.9 | 145 | 22.6 | 18.6-27.2 |
Piedmont | 955 | 171 | 18.2 | 15.1-21.7 | 226 | 23.9 | 20.6-27.6 | 319 | 32.3 | 28.6-36.3 | 239 | 25.5 | 22.1-29.3 |
Western NC | 182 | 33 | 17.6 | 11.9-25.1 | 40 | 23.1 | 16.3-31.6 | 64 | 29.1 | 22.2-37.0 | 45 | 30.3 | 22.5-39.4 |
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC) | |||||||||||||
Mountain AHEC*** | 98 | 16 | 13.1 | 7.4-22.2 | 22 | 24.9 | 15.9-36.8 | 32 | 26.2 | 17.8-36.8 | 28 | 35.8 | 25.1-48.2 |
Northwest | 360 | 61 | 18.1 | 13.3-24.3 | 73 | 22.5 | 17.2-29.0 | 133 | 33.3 | 27.5-39.5 | 93 | 26.1 | 20.5-32.5 |
Charlotte | 259 | 39 | 14.8 | 10.2-21.0 | 66 | 23.2 | 17.8-29.6 | 88 | 33.6 | 26.7-41.2 | 66 | 28.4 | 22.0-35.8 |
Greensboro | 226 | 45 | 18.5 | 13.0-25.6 | 58 | 24.6 | 18.3-32.3 | 76 | 34.3 | 26.6-43.0 | 47 | 22.6 | 15.8-31.2 |
Southern Regional | 202 | 39 | 18.2 | 12.8-25.2 | 48 | 24.6 | 17.7-33.0 | 70 | 33.1 | 25.6-41.5 | 45 | 24.1 | 16.3-34.1 |
Coastal | 88 | 14 | 13.2 | 7.5-22.1 | 23 | 26.5 | 16.8-39.2 | 37 | 45.3 | 32.5-58.8 | 14 | 15.0 | 8.6-24.7 |
Wake | 202 | 43 | 24.4 | 17.1-33.7 | 47 | 22.9 | 16.2-31.4 | 63 | 29.5 | 21.8-38.6 | 49 | 23.2 | 16.4-31.7 |
Area L | 107 | 19 | 17.0 | 10.6-26.1 | 25 | 22.4 | 14.8-32.4 | 33 | 31.4 | 22.0-42.5 | 30 | 29.2 | 20.0-40.5 |
Eastern | 256 | 49 | 17.0 | 12.3-22.9 | 46 | 23.7 | 17.5-31.2 | 104 | 38.4 | 31.7-45.6 | 57 | 21.0 | 15.7-27.5 |
^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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