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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Orange County

Physical Activity

Now, thinking about the moderate physical activities you do when you are not working in a usual week,
do you do moderate activities for at least 10 minutes at a time such as
brisk walking, bicycling,vacuuming, gardening, or anything else that cause s small increases in breathing or heart rate?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 12,752 10,603 84.8 83.6-85.9 2,149 15.2 14.1-16.4
-Orange County 357 315 91.3 87.9-93.8 42 8.7 6.2-12.1
GENDER
Male 136 120 91.7 86.1-95.2 16 8.3 4.8-13.9
Female 221 195 90.9 86.3-94.1 26 9.1 5.9-13.7
RACE
White 286 259 93.1 89.7-95.5 27 6.9 4.5-10.3
Other 65 52 87.0 77.3-92.9 13 13.0 7.1-22.7
AGE
18-44 92 88 97.2 92.2-99.0 4 2.8 1.0- 7.8
45+ 259 221 86.5 81.4-90.4 38 13.5 9.6-18.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 81 63 84.2 74.2-90.9 18 15.8 9.1-25.8
Some College + 274 250 93.4 89.8-95.8 24 6.6 4.2-10.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 101 86 88.8 81.1-93.7 15 11.2 6.3-18.9
$50,000+ 202 188 95.0 91.3-97.2 14 5.0 2.8- 8.7

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*If a respondent reported less than 10 mins activity/week for the next phy. activity quest., that respondent was counted in NO category

^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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