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2008 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover County

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,489 9,842 66.0 64.8-67.1 1,377 9.9 9.2-10.7 1,582 10.1 9.4-10.9 1,232 7.2 6.6- 7.9 1,456 6.8 6.3- 7.3
-New Hanover County 366 237 66.1 59.4-72.2 33 7.8 5.2-11.6 47 15.0 10.7-20.6 21 5.0 3.0- 8.0 28 6.2 3.9- 9.5
GENDER
Male 143 95 70.9 60.5-79.4 11 4.1 2.2- 7.8 17 14.6 8.4-24.1 8 4.4 2.1- 9.3 12 6.0 3.1-11.2
Female 223 142 60.9 52.8-68.5 22 11.8 7.3-18.6 30 15.4 10.4-22.2 13 5.5 2.9-10.3 16 6.4 3.5-11.4
RACE
White 315 198 62.3 55.1-68.9 29 8.1 5.3-12.3 43 16.7 11.9-23.0 19 5.5 3.3- 9.0 26 7.4 4.7-11.4
Other 48 37 82.1 64.3-92.1 4 6.7 2.1-19.3 4 7.8 1.9-26.6 2 2.8 0.5-13.7 1 0.6 0.1- 4.6
AGE
18-44 82 54 68.6 55.9-79.1 8 6.2 2.7-13.4 14 19.0 10.9-31.1 4 3.2 1.0- 9.2 2 3.0 0.7-11.3
45+ 283 183 64.5 57.2-71.2 24 8.7 5.4-13.5 33 12.2 8.4-17.4 17 6.2 3.6-10.5 26 8.4 5.5-12.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 102 65 67.9 54.0-79.2 9 6.0 2.6-13.0 13 13.0 6.2-25.2 5 3.3 1.2- 8.5 10 9.9 4.6-20.0
Some College + 263 172 65.5 57.8-72.4 24 8.6 5.4-13.4 34 15.8 10.8-22.5 16 5.6 3.2- 9.7 17 4.5 2.7- 7.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 161 89 56.8 45.2-67.7 18 9.4 5.1-16.5 25 19.0 11.7-29.4 12 5.8 2.8-11.4 17 9.0 4.9-16.0
$50,000+ 159 115 72.2 63.8-79.3 14 7.9 4.5-13.5 20 13.4 8.4-20.7 7 4.4 2.0- 9.2 3 2.0 0.7- 6.2

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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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