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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont North Carolina**

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
-Piedmont NC 6,649 4,437 66.7 64.7-68.6 595 9.9 8.8-11.2 644 10.1 9.0-11.4 477 6.9 5.9- 8.1 496 6.4 5.5- 7.5
GENDER
Male 2,533 1,780 70.3 67.3-73.2 231 9.3 7.7-11.3 207 9.4 7.7-11.5 123 4.7 3.5- 6.3 192 6.2 4.7- 8.0
Female 4,116 2,657 63.2 60.7-65.7 364 10.5 8.9-12.3 437 10.7 9.3-12.3 354 9.0 7.4-10.8 304 6.7 5.5- 8.1
RACE
White 5,348 3,574 66.9 64.7-68.9 492 10.7 9.4-12.1 504 9.8 8.6-11.1 378 6.9 5.7- 8.3 400 5.8 4.9- 6.8
African American 912 595 64.4 59.2-69.2 75 8.7 6.0-12.4 101 10.8 8.0-14.5 70 7.5 5.4-10.3 71 8.6 5.8-12.5
Other Minorities 336 227 68.0 59.1-75.8 24 7.2 3.4-14.4 34 11.2 7.0-17.5 27 6.2 3.0-12.3 24 7.4 4.1-13.0
HISPANIC
Hispanic 236 165 69.3 59.1-78.0 18 9.3 4.7-17.8 20 7.1 4.0-12.3 17 8.1 3.7-16.8 16 6.1 2.9-12.2
Non-Hispanic 6,391 4,257 66.4 64.4-68.3 576 10.0 8.8-11.3 623 10.4 9.2-11.7 459 6.8 5.8- 7.9 476 6.5 5.5- 7.6
AGE
18-24 181 124 68.9 59.5-77.0 22 14.3 8.6-22.9 25 9.7 6.2-14.8 5 5.4 2.1-13.2 5 1.7 0.7- 4.4
25-34 633 432 65.7 60.0-70.9 87 11.8 9.1-15.3 66 12.3 8.8-16.8 35 6.5 4.0-10.6 13 3.7 1.8- 7.7
35-44 1,087 749 68.0 63.9-71.8 135 12.0 9.8-14.7 121 11.7 9.3-14.7 54 4.5 2.9- 6.8 28 3.9 2.2- 6.6
45-54 1,340 875 66.3 62.5-69.9 146 9.5 7.7-11.5 108 7.7 5.8-10.1 110 8.4 6.5-10.8 101 8.1 5.6-11.5
55-64 1,358 919 66.9 63.1-70.4 95 6.7 5.1- 8.8 128 8.8 6.9-11.1 98 8.7 6.5-11.5 118 9.0 6.9-11.6
65+ 1,985 1,290 64.7 61.4-67.9 103 4.9 3.7- 6.4 191 10.1 8.2-12.4 174 8.2 6.7-10.2 227 12.0 9.7-14.8
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 778 430 60.5 53.0-67.5 32 5.0 2.3-10.8 73 7.8 5.4-11.1 105 12.3 8.0-18.3 138 14.4 10.4-19.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,814 1,216 68.2 64.3-71.9 125 6.8 5.3- 8.8 183 9.3 7.3-11.8 137 7.9 6.0-10.5 153 7.7 5.5-10.5
Some Post-H.S. 1,611 1,063 62.2 58.1-66.1 168 13.8 10.9-17.3 158 11.6 9.0-14.7 114 6.5 4.8- 8.8 108 5.9 4.3- 7.9
College Graduate 2,433 1,719 70.7 68.0-73.3 269 11.3 9.7-13.3 228 10.4 8.7-12.5 120 4.4 3.3- 5.8 97 3.1 2.3- 4.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 593 281 48.3 40.2-56.5 37 13.6 7.6-23.3 68 11.1 7.5-16.0 91 13.2 9.2-18.5 116 13.8 10.1-18.6
$15,000- 24,999 927 570 62.2 56.4-67.7 71 6.4 4.2- 9.7 93 10.6 7.5-15.0 93 10.6 7.1-15.6 100 10.1 7.3-13.7
$25,000- 34,999 632 416 63.0 55.5-70.0 52 7.3 4.6-11.4 50 8.1 5.5-11.8 57 12.2 7.4-19.5 57 9.4 5.1-16.7
$35,000- 49,999 835 558 68.1 62.7-73.1 76 8.2 6.1-10.8 93 11.4 8.4-15.2 55 6.5 4.2- 9.9 53 5.8 3.4- 9.7
$50,000-74,999 952 658 67.9 62.8-72.6 103 11.3 8.5-14.8 102 12.5 9.1-17.0 51 4.9 3.0- 7.8 38 3.4 1.9- 6.1
$75,000+ 1,702 1,273 73.1 70.0-75.9 185 11.9 10.0-14.2 141 8.9 7.1-11.2 64 3.5 2.6- 4.9 39 2.6 1.7- 3.9
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 2,065 893 42.2 38.7-45.9 156 9.7 7.2-12.9 272 13.6 11.3-16.2 323 15.0 12.7-17.6 421 19.5 16.5-22.9
No 4,173 3,250 75.4 73.1-77.6 402 10.3 9.0-11.9 335 8.9 7.5-10.4 131 3.8 2.7- 5.3 55 1.5 1.0- 2.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 776 525 68.6 63.3-73.4 60 6.7 4.9- 9.1 70 11.0 7.8-15.4 53 6.4 4.2- 9.5 68 7.3 4.8-10.9
Non-Veteran 5,325 3,525 66.0 63.8-68.2 496 10.7 9.4-12.3 535 10.1 8.9-11.6 383 6.9 5.8- 8.3 386 6.2 5.1- 7.4

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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.

Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
**Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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