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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: Buncombe County

Folic Acid

How would you describe how often you have taken multivitamins over the past six months?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Take daily Take at least 5 days a week Was taking regularly, not now Not taking regularly, now regularly Have not taken regularly
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 8,449 1,210 17.1 15.8-18.5 389 5.3 4.6- 6.1 611 9.0 8.0-10.1 632 8.7 7.8- 9.8 5,607 59.9 58.2-61.5
-Buncombe County 224 28 19.3 12.2-29.1 4 4.1 1.3-12.6 18 5.7 3.4- 9.6 13 8.4 4.5-15.1 161 62.5 53.0-71.2
GENDER
Male 73 10 22.8 11.4-40.3 2 5.2 1.0-23.2 3 2.4 0.8- 7.5 7 11.5 5.0-24.3 51 58.1 42.3-72.4
Female 151 18 15.9 9.1-26.3 2 3.1 0.6-14.0 15 8.9 5.0-15.5 6 5.3 2.2-12.3 110 66.7 56.3-75.8
RACE
White 201 25 17.8 10.9-27.8 4 4.7 1.4-14.3 15 6.0 3.4-10.4 11 9.1 4.8-16.7 146 62.3 52.5-71.3
Other 22 3 29.4 8.3-65.7 0 0.0 . - . 2 2.8 0.6-12.5 2 3.4 0.7-14.1 15 64.4 31.4-87.8
AGE
18-44 56 13 30.5 17.1-48.3 2 7.2 1.8-25.1 7 6.5 2.8-14.4 7 12.3 5.3-25.8 27 43.5 28.5-59.7
45+ 167 15 9.2 5.4-15.4 2 1.3 0.3- 5.3 11 5.1 2.7- 9.4 6 4.9 2.1-11.0 133 79.5 71.9-85.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 63 11 33.0 17.2-53.8 1 6.5 0.9-33.9 6 4.1 1.6-10.0 3 5.7 1.7-17.2 42 50.7 33.4-67.8
Some College + 160 17 12.6 7.1-21.5 3 2.9 0.8-10.6 12 6.5 3.5-12.0 10 9.7 4.7-19.0 118 68.2 57.9-77.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 118 16 19.3 10.6-32.5 2 6.4 1.6-22.5 8 4.6 2.2- 9.6 3 2.0 0.6- 6.8 89 67.7 54.1-78.8
$50,000+ 81 9 15.3 7.2-29.6 2 1.9 0.5- 7.4 6 6.6 2.6-15.5 9 18.8 9.6-33.6 55 57.4 43.9-69.9

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*Asked only of those who reported taking a multivitamin in the past six months.

^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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