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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg County

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your mental 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 13,068 9,042 66.3 64.8-67.8 933 7.7 7.0- 8.6 1,216 10.8 9.8-12.0 1,096 9.6 8.7-10.5 781 5.5 4.9- 6.3
-Mecklenburg County 612 403 62.6 57.0-67.9 64 11.8 8.7-16.0 66 10.6 7.6-14.4 54 10.0 7.2-13.9 25 4.9 2.4-10.1
GENDER
Male 231 162 66.2 57.8-73.6 23 11.3 7.1-17.4 25 11.3 6.7-18.5 13 8.1 4.2-14.9 8 3.2 1.4- 6.9
Female 381 241 59.4 51.8-66.7 41 12.3 8.0-18.5 41 9.9 6.7-14.2 41 11.8 8.1-17.0 17 6.5 2.4-16.6
RACE
White 426 277 61.5 55.2-67.4 52 15.2 10.8-21.0 48 10.6 7.6-14.5 35 10.5 6.9-15.8 14 2.2 1.2- 4.1
Other 175 118 64.8 53.9-74.4 10 5.3 2.5-10.6 18 11.3 6.0-20.3 19 9.9 5.7-16.9 10 8.7 3.0-22.4
AGE
18-44 189 117 59.1 49.6-68.0 25 13.8 8.6-21.6 21 11.1 6.5-18.4 20 11.3 6.6-18.4 6 4.7 1.1-17.5
45+ 415 279 66.0 60.5-71.1 38 9.5 6.8-13.1 45 10.2 7.4-14.0 34 9.0 6.2-12.8 19 5.3 3.1- 9.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 147 92 55.6 43.6-66.9 9 10.8 4.7-23.0 15 11.1 4.9-23.2 18 14.3 7.6-25.2 13 8.2 4.2-15.4
Some College + 462 308 65.0 58.8-70.8 55 12.3 8.9-16.6 51 10.4 7.5-14.2 36 8.5 5.8-12.4 12 3.8 1.1-12.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 230 139 55.4 45.4-65.0 19 8.9 5.1-15.4 26 8.9 5.5-14.0 28 15.3 9.3-24.0 18 11.5 4.9-24.7
$50,000+ 282 191 66.5 59.3-73.0 37 12.3 8.6-17.3 33 14.2 9.1-21.4 20 6.8 4.2-10.8 1 0.2 0.0- 1.7

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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.

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