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2008 BRFSS Survey Results: Alamance County

Skin Cancer Prevention

In the past 12 months, have you tried to get a tan using a tanning lamp or tanning machine,
whether it was at a tanning salon, at your home, or elsewhere?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,297 826 7.1 6.4- 7.9 14,471 92.9 92.1-93.6
-Alamance County 370 23 8.3 4.8-14.0 347 91.7 86.0-95.2
GENDER
Male 115 4 3.5 0.9-12.8 111 96.5 87.2-99.1
Female 255 19 12.4 6.9-21.1 236 87.6 78.9-93.1
RACE
White 294 23 11.0 6.4-18.4 271 89.0 81.6-93.6
Other 76 0 0.0 . - . 76 100 . - .
AGE
18-44 100 13 13.1 6.6-24.3 87 86.9 75.7-93.4
45+ 267 10 3.5 1.8- 6.8 257 96.5 93.2-98.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 9 6.1 2.5-14.1 155 93.9 85.9-97.5
Some College + 205 14 10.8 5.4-20.3 191 89.2 79.7-94.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 8 4.0 1.8- 8.7 177 96.0 91.3-98.2
$50,000+ 131 11 9.8 4.6-19.8 120 90.2 80.2-95.4

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^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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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