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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover 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
-New Hanover County 405 266 62.9 55.0-70.1 39 11.7 7.3-18.1 43 12.6 7.7-19.9 23 5.3 3.0- 9.2 34 7.5 4.9-11.4
GENDER
Male 160 120 72.3 61.0-81.3 10 8.9 4.2-17.8 12 8.5 3.5-18.9 3 1.0 0.3- 3.6 15 9.4 5.0-16.7
Female 245 146 53.6 43.5-63.5 29 14.4 8.0-24.7 31 16.7 9.3-28.2 20 9.5 5.2-16.9 19 5.7 3.4- 9.5
RACE
White 344 226 64.0 55.5-71.8 35 10.9 7.1-16.4 37 13.6 8.0-22.3 20 5.4 2.8- 9.9 26 6.1 3.8- 9.7
Other 59 38 56.2 37.1-73.6 4 15.9 3.7-47.9 6 7.9 3.2-18.2 3 5.1 1.4-16.7 8 14.9 6.3-31.1
AGE
18-44 88 52 57.0 42.6-70.4 17 17.6 9.4-30.6 9 14.9 6.5-30.6 4 4.3 1.2-13.7 6 6.2 2.6-14.2
45+ 311 210 68.6 62.4-74.1 20 5.4 3.4- 8.5 34 10.7 7.5-15.0 19 6.4 3.9-10.4 28 9.0 6.0-13.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 126 79 53.0 38.1-67.3 7 5.9 1.7-17.9 13 22.2 10.3-41.5 8 4.4 1.9-10.0 19 14.5 8.0-25.1
Some College + 279 187 67.5 58.9-75.1 32 14.4 8.7-22.8 30 8.1 5.2-12.4 15 5.8 2.8-11.4 15 4.2 2.4- 7.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 167 98 52.6 40.3-64.6 15 8.7 4.5-15.9 22 21.1 10.9-36.8 13 6.9 3.6-13.0 19 10.8 5.9-18.9
$50,000+ 176 127 71.6 61.6-79.9 18 11.6 6.8-19.1 15 9.5 4.2-20.1 7 2.7 1.2- 5.9 9 4.5 2.2- 8.9

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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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