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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Rowan 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
-Rowan County 423 332 77.4 70.1-83.4 91 22.6 16.6-29.9
GENDER
Male 151 116 71.9 58.0-82.6 35 28.1 17.4-42.0
Female 272 216 81.8 75.1-87.0 56 18.2 13.0-24.9
RACE
White 370 297 82.2 76.3-86.9 73 17.8 13.1-23.7
Other 51 33 58.4 36.2-77.6 18 41.6 22.4-63.8
AGE
18-44 101 85 75.8 60.5-86.4 16 24.2 13.6-39.5
45+ 319 244 78.6 73.2-83.1 75 21.4 16.9-26.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 210 146 68.5 57.1-78.0 64 31.5 22.0-42.9
Some College + 213 186 86.6 77.7-92.3 27 13.4 7.7-22.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 216 161 72.8 63.3-80.6 55 27.2 19.4-36.7
$50,000+ 128 118 94.3 89.1-97.0 10 5.7 3.0-10.9

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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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