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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake 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
-Wake County 596 513 86.7 82.3-90.2 83 13.3 9.8-17.7
GENDER
Male 218 184 84.7 76.3-90.5 34 15.3 9.5-23.7
Female 378 329 88.7 84.6-91.8 49 11.3 8.2-15.4
RACE
White 446 399 92.8 90.0-94.8 47 7.2 5.2-10.0
Other 150 114 75.1 64.0-83.7 36 24.9 16.3-36.0
AGE
18-44 205 184 88.7 80.6-93.7 21 11.3 6.3-19.4
45+ 385 324 84.5 79.9-88.2 61 15.5 11.8-20.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 167 121 75.7 66.3-83.1 46 24.3 16.9-33.7
Some College + 428 392 91.0 85.4-94.6 36 9.0 5.4-14.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 197 149 76.8 68.2-83.6 48 23.2 16.4-31.8
$50,000+ 318 297 92.5 85.2-96.3 21 7.5 3.7-14.8

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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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