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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-MALES

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
-MALES 4,911 3,371 69.5 67.2-71.8 429 10.0 8.4-11.7 414 8.7 7.4-10.1 285 5.4 4.4- 6.5 412 6.5 5.4- 7.8
RACE
White 3,914 2,715 70.1 67.5-72.5 347 10.9 9.2-13.0 320 8.4 7.1-10.0 207 4.5 3.6- 5.5 325 6.1 5.0- 7.4
African American 602 378 62.1 55.6-68.2 52 8.7 5.3-14.0 59 10.0 6.8-14.5 51 8.6 5.8-12.6 62 10.5 6.8-16.0
Other Minorities 348 244 75.3 66.4-82.5 24 6.0 2.7-12.9 32 8.5 4.9-14.5 25 6.2 2.8-13.1 23 3.9 2.0- 7.6
AGE
18-24 203 155 75.9 65.5-83.9 21 14.7 7.9-25.9 18 5.3 3.0- 9.0 6 3.2 1.2- 8.1 3 0.9 0.3- 2.8
25-34 421 293 68.7 61.7-75.0 47 8.7 6.0-12.4 43 12.3 8.2-18.0 20 5.3 2.7-10.4 18 5.0 2.5- 9.6
35-44 728 502 70.1 65.3-74.5 101 13.4 10.5-16.9 70 9.9 7.2-13.4 26 2.7 1.7- 4.3 29 4.0 2.3- 6.8
45-54 1,038 720 67.9 63.3-72.2 97 9.7 7.4-12.5 75 6.5 4.6- 9.2 64 7.4 5.2-10.4 82 8.5 5.6-12.6
55-64 1,079 719 66.4 62.0-70.6 79 7.5 5.4-10.2 97 8.8 6.5-11.8 77 7.9 5.6-11.2 107 9.4 7.0-12.4
65+ 1,420 964 69.1 65.3-72.7 82 5.1 3.9- 6.7 111 8.5 6.4-11.1 92 5.7 4.3- 7.6 171 11.6 8.9-14.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 667 388 61.3 53.6-68.6 34 6.2 3.2-11.8 62 8.2 5.2-12.6 64 10.5 6.5-16.4 119 13.8 9.8-19.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,436 974 70.3 66.1-74.3 109 7.6 5.8-10.0 124 8.1 6.2-10.6 94 6.0 4.4- 8.2 135 7.9 5.5-11.1
Some Post-H.S. 1,154 789 69.0 63.6-73.9 107 12.7 8.7-18.3 96 9.3 6.6-12.9 64 3.8 2.6- 5.4 98 5.3 3.9- 7.0
College Graduate 1,645 1,214 73.2 69.9-76.3 179 11.9 9.8-14.4 130 8.9 6.9-11.4 62 3.4 2.3- 4.9 60 2.6 1.8- 3.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 420 211 57.0 46.8-66.7 17 6.0 2.0-16.9 45 11.4 6.7-18.8 55 10.0 6.7-14.8 92 15.5 10.6-22.2
$15,000- 24,999 709 430 65.5 59.2-71.3 59 7.3 5.1-10.4 63 9.3 6.4-13.5 63 9.2 5.6-14.8 94 8.6 6.1-11.9
$25,000- 34,999 501 336 66.7 58.4-74.0 37 8.6 5.1-14.3 38 6.2 3.8- 9.8 42 10.6 6.4-17.0 48 7.9 3.8-15.7
$35,000- 49,999 642 424 65.1 58.8-70.8 67 11.1 7.8-15.7 59 9.1 6.3-12.9 41 6.8 4.1-11.2 51 7.9 4.7-13.0
$50,000- 74,999 718 535 75.2 69.5-80.0 68 10.1 7.4-13.6 54 9.1 5.6-14.4 22 1.6 0.9- 2.8 39 4.0 2.2- 7.1
$75,000+ 1,338 1,036 73.7 69.3-77.7 141 12.7 9.5-16.9 99 8.8 6.6-11.8 38 2.4 1.6- 3.6 24 2.3 1.4- 3.9
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,602 737 46.0 41.7-50.4 130 11.0 7.5-16.0 182 10.7 8.5-13.3 198 12.6 10.1-15.5 355 19.7 16.3-23.7
No 2,981 2,382 78.1 75.5-80.6 278 10.2 8.5-12.1 203 7.7 6.2- 9.5 78 2.6 1.7- 4.0 40 1.4 0.9- 2.2
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,528 1,020 68.4 64.5-72.1 122 7.9 6.2-10.0 133 9.0 6.9-11.7 110 6.7 5.0- 8.8 143 8.1 6.0-10.8
Non-Veteran 2,983 2,062 69.7 66.7-72.6 280 11.0 9.0-13.4 253 8.3 6.8-10.1 155 5.0 3.8- 6.5 233 6.0 4.7- 7.6

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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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