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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover 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
-New Hanover County 382 325 87.1 81.4-91.2 57 12.9 8.8-18.6
GENDER
Male 132 114 87.3 76.2-93.6 18 12.7 6.4-23.8
Female 250 211 86.9 81.7-90.7 39 13.1 9.3-18.3
RACE
White 327 281 89.0 84.3-92.5 46 11.0 7.5-15.7
Other 54 43 79.9 59.1-91.7 11 20.1 8.3-40.9
AGE
18-44 101 92 90.9 79.0-96.4 9 9.1 3.6-21.0
45+ 278 230 82.8 77.2-87.3 48 17.2 12.7-22.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 121 95 82.8 72.8-89.6 26 17.2 10.4-27.2
Some College + 261 230 89.3 81.5-94.1 31 10.7 5.9-18.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 171 137 81.5 70.6-88.9 34 18.5 11.1-29.4
$50,000+ 165 152 94.5 90.3-96.9 13 5.5 3.1- 9.7

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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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