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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg 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 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
-Mecklenburg County 608 414 66.6 61.1-71.6 59 11.6 8.0-16.5 63 10.2 7.5-13.8 33 6.1 3.9- 9.6 39 5.5 3.7- 8.0
GENDER
Male 229 161 69.2 61.4-76.0 27 10.9 7.1-16.3 19 9.7 5.6-16.2 9 5.5 2.6-11.4 13 4.8 2.6- 8.6
Female 379 253 64.2 56.5-71.2 32 12.3 6.8-21.0 44 10.7 7.6-15.0 24 6.7 3.7-11.7 26 6.1 3.7-10.1
RACE
White 423 294 67.7 61.6-73.3 41 10.6 7.3-15.0 45 11.9 8.3-16.9 22 5.8 3.3-10.0 21 4.0 2.4- 6.6
Other 174 112 64.6 53.9-74.0 16 12.7 6.0-24.8 17 7.5 4.1-13.4 11 7.0 3.2-14.6 18 8.2 4.6-14.0
AGE
18-44 190 133 67.6 58.1-75.8 22 14.4 8.3-23.7 27 12.4 7.9-18.9 3 3.1 0.8-11.1 5 2.5 0.9- 7.1
45+ 410 277 66.3 60.7-71.6 35 8.1 5.6-11.6 35 7.9 5.4-11.4 30 9.5 6.3-14.2 33 8.1 5.5-11.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 146 92 68.0 57.1-77.3 8 4.5 1.8-10.9 13 7.3 3.2-15.6 14 11.5 6.0-21.1 19 8.7 5.0-14.7
Some College + 459 319 65.8 59.4-71.7 51 14.3 9.6-20.7 50 11.4 8.2-15.6 19 4.2 2.2- 7.9 20 4.3 2.5- 7.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 148 60.8 50.4-70.3 18 12.2 5.3-25.6 25 11.7 7.0-18.9 14 6.5 3.4-12.4 24 8.7 5.1-14.5
$50,000+ 280 201 71.2 64.5-77.0 31 12.1 8.2-17.5 27 9.9 6.4-15.0 13 3.9 2.1- 6.9 8 2.9 1.4- 6.0

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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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