SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover County

Physical Activity & Nutrition

When you eat out at a sit-down restaurant, how often do you choose foods that are low in fat, sugar or calories?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Always Most of the time Sometimes Never
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,274 759 11.5 10.3-12.9 1,901 32.1 30.1-34.2 1,849 39.3 37.0-41.7 765 17.1 15.2-19.0
-New Hanover County 164 28 11.0 6.6-17.8 67 35.3 24.7-47.7 51 37.4 25.2-51.5 18 16.2 8.3-29.4
GENDER
Male 60 8 8.3 3.0-20.7 20 31.9 16.3-53.1 18 39.7 20.9-62.3 14 20.1 10.1-36.0
Female 104 20 14.1 8.3-22.9 47 39.1 27.3-52.4 33 34.8 22.7-49.3 4 12.0 2.5-42.3
RACE
White 148 23 8.7 5.2-14.1 62 36.3 24.8-49.7 49 40.2 27.0-55.1 14 14.8 6.7-29.6
Other 16 5 32.5 10.5-66.5 5 26.4 8.6-57.6 2 11.5 2.4-41.4 4 29.6 9.7-62.1
AGE
18-44 31 3 6.3 1.6-21.4 11 29.2 13.0-53.2 11 44.6 23.0-68.4 6 19.9 7.0-45.4
45+ 129 25 16.3 10.8-23.9 55 42.3 33.3-51.9 37 28.6 20.8-37.8 12 12.9 6.7-23.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 44 7 12.4 3.6-34.5 16 21.1 9.7-40.0 15 41.8 17.0-71.5 6 24.8 6.7-60.3
Some College + 120 21 10.5 6.3-17.1 51 40.8 28.0-55.0 36 35.7 23.0-50.8 12 13.0 6.5-24.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 71 18 19.5 9.8-35.3 21 17.2 9.5-29.1 23 34.8 18.4-55.8 9 28.5 11.7-54.5
$50,000+ 74 8 8.7 4.0-17.8 41 58.0 43.6-71.2 19 23.9 14.4-37.0 6 9.4 4.0-20.4

Back to Physical Activity & Nutrition.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 11JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook