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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: Durham 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
-Durham County 322 267 75.9 66.5-83.3 55 24.1 16.7-33.5
GENDER
Male 109 85 69.7 53.7-82.0 24 30.3 18.0-46.3
Female 213 182 82.6 74.8-88.4 31 17.4 11.6-25.2
RACE
White 205 185 89.0 81.4-93.7 20 11.0 6.3-18.6
Other 114 80 62.2 46.7-75.6 34 37.8 24.4-53.3
AGE
18-44 101 83 72.5 56.1-84.5 18 27.5 15.5-43.9
45+ 217 182 80.1 71.7-86.5 35 19.9 13.5-28.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 84 60 59.8 39.8-77.0 24 40.2 23.0-60.2
Some College + 238 207 83.9 76.6-89.2 31 16.1 10.8-23.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 136 110 78.5 67.7-86.4 26 21.5 13.6-32.3
$50,000+ 144 127 83.6 73.9-90.2 17 16.4 9.8-26.1

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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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