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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: Alamance County

Physical Activity

Now, thinking about the moderate physical activities you do when you are not working in a usual week,
do you do moderate activities for at least 10 minutes at a time such as
brisk walking, bicycling,vacuuming, gardening, or anything else that cause s small increases in breathing or heart rate?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,493 11,818 82.9 81.9-83.8 2,675 17.1 16.2-18.1
-Alamance County 340 278 82.7 76.6-87.5 62 17.3 12.5-23.4
GENDER
Male 125 99 81.2 70.4-88.7 26 18.8 11.3-29.6
Female 215 179 84.2 77.1-89.4 36 15.8 10.6-22.9
RACE
White 273 227 84.0 77.1-89.1 46 16.0 10.9-22.9
Other 65 49 79.5 64.5-89.2 16 20.5 10.8-35.5
AGE
18-44 96 85 85.4 73.7-92.4 11 14.6 7.6-26.3
45+ 242 191 79.9 73.4-85.2 51 20.1 14.8-26.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 166 122 73.2 63.0-81.3 44 26.8 18.7-37.0
Some College + 174 156 92.7 87.4-95.9 18 7.3 4.1-12.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 147 76.0 67.7-82.8 51 24.0 17.2-32.3
$50,000+ 101 95 91.4 81.8-96.2 6 8.6 3.8-18.2

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*If a respondent reported less than 10 mins activity/week for the next phy. activity quest., that respondent was counted in NO category

^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.

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