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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina**

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 12,980 8,410 66.1 64.6-67.5 1,171 10.2 9.3-11.3 1,260 9.5 8.6-10.3 1,015 7.4 6.6- 8.2 1,124 6.9 6.2- 7.6
-Eastern NC 3,568 2,231 64.8 61.7-67.8 347 10.8 8.7-13.4 344 8.4 7.0-10.0 302 8.7 7.2-10.4 344 7.3 6.0- 8.8
GENDER
Male 1,304 887 67.3 62.1-72.2 99 11.3 7.7-16.4 112 7.4 5.3-10.1 90 7.3 5.2-10.1 116 6.7 4.8- 9.3
Female 2,264 1,344 62.4 58.8-65.8 248 10.3 8.5-12.5 232 9.4 7.7-11.4 212 10.0 8.0-12.4 228 7.9 6.4- 9.6
RACE
White 2,386 1,514 65.3 61.6-68.9 232 11.7 8.9-15.2 226 8.9 7.2-11.0 187 7.3 5.8- 9.0 227 6.8 5.5- 8.4
African American 820 485 58.2 51.5-64.7 84 11.4 7.3-17.2 83 8.2 5.5-12.2 93 12.9 9.2-17.7 75 9.3 6.1-14.1
Other Minorities 340 218 76.2 67.2-83.4 26 4.3 2.5- 7.1 34 5.6 3.4- 9.1 22 8.0 3.6-16.8 40 5.9 3.7- 9.4
HISPANIC
Hispanic 144 109 81.2 67.9-89.8 7 3.2 1.2- 8.3 12 4.8 2.3- 9.7 11 8.7 2.9-23.3 5 2.0 0.7- 5.6
Non-Hispanic 3,417 2,116 63.5 60.4-66.6 339 11.4 9.1-14.1 332 8.7 7.2-10.4 291 8.7 7.2-10.4 339 7.7 6.4- 9.3
AGE
18-24 136 90 69.3 55.4-80.4 21 18.5 9.2-33.9 14 5.6 2.9-10.4 8 5.3 2.2-12.3 3 1.3 0.4- 4.3
25-34 392 275 68.4 59.9-75.9 45 9.3 5.7-15.0 35 10.4 6.1-17.3 22 8.0 4.3-14.5 15 3.8 1.9- 7.3
35-44 555 350 65.8 59.0-71.9 80 13.6 9.8-18.5 51 6.9 4.4-10.6 42 6.8 4.3-10.5 32 7.0 4.0-12.1
45-54 708 432 62.8 57.0-68.3 63 9.7 6.5-14.2 72 8.6 6.0-12.1 67 11.0 7.6-15.6 74 8.0 5.5-11.3
55-64 727 429 60.2 54.5-65.5 65 8.6 6.0-12.2 81 10.7 7.5-14.9 81 11.5 8.2-15.8 71 9.1 6.5-12.6
65+ 1,022 636 62.3 57.2-67.2 68 5.5 4.0- 7.6 91 8.4 6.3-11.1 81 9.6 6.9-13.2 146 14.2 10.4-19.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 475 256 57.9 49.2-66.2 23 3.1 1.8- 5.5 41 8.0 4.1-14.9 65 16.9 11.2-24.8 90 14.0 9.3-20.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,131 692 65.4 60.0-70.4 92 7.8 5.7-10.7 106 8.6 6.2-11.8 110 9.4 6.9-12.7 131 8.8 6.4-11.8
Some Post-H.S. 1,005 628 65.0 58.3-71.1 108 15.8 10.4-23.3 102 7.2 5.3- 9.7 80 5.9 4.1- 8.3 87 6.2 4.4- 8.6
College Graduate 951 652 67.9 62.8-72.6 123 13.3 9.9-17.8 93 9.7 7.1-13.2 47 6.2 4.1- 9.4 36 2.8 1.8- 4.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 449 204 49.2 38.7-59.8 20 2.9 1.6- 5.2 58 13.9 8.3-22.3 69 17.1 11.7-24.3 98 17.0 11.6-24.1
$15,000- 24,999 613 367 67.9 61.0-74.0 49 7.8 5.2-11.7 50 6.1 3.9- 9.6 64 10.0 6.2-15.8 83 8.2 5.9-11.2
$25,000- 34,999 366 241 64.9 55.2-73.5 24 7.4 3.8-14.0 37 9.9 5.8-16.2 33 12.8 7.3-21.5 31 5.0 3.0- 8.3
$35,000- 49,999 479 305 68.8 60.9-75.7 67 13.2 8.6-19.6 48 7.6 5.0-11.4 34 6.0 3.5-10.0 25 4.5 2.3- 8.5
$50,000-74,999 488 324 66.5 59.4-72.9 52 14.0 9.5-20.0 47 9.2 6.0-13.9 31 3.9 2.4- 6.1 34 6.5 3.4-11.9
$75,000+ 680 491 70.3 62.1-77.3 84 14.6 8.4-24.0 65 8.3 5.4-12.3 25 4.5 2.5- 7.8 15 2.4 1.2- 5.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,301 504 39.0 34.0-44.2 114 11.9 7.5-18.5 165 10.3 8.0-13.1 221 18.5 15.0-22.6 297 20.4 16.8-24.6
No 2,032 1,556 77.2 73.6-80.3 213 10.7 8.3-13.5 158 7.0 5.4- 8.9 66 3.7 2.4- 5.6 39 1.5 0.9- 2.6
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 578 382 68.4 61.6-74.6 59 10.4 6.9-15.3 39 5.3 3.2- 8.4 47 7.8 5.1-11.7 51 8.2 4.9-13.4
Non-Veteran 2,684 1,637 63.9 60.2-67.5 266 11.1 8.5-14.3 287 9.0 7.4-10.9 232 8.9 7.2-11.1 262 7.1 5.7- 8.7

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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.

**Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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