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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Union 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
-Union County 363 252 71.0 64.4-76.8 40 11.3 7.9-15.9 29 7.9 4.9-12.5 23 4.7 2.9- 7.4 19 5.1 2.5-10.4
GENDER
Male 117 92 79.7 69.8-87.0 10 9.6 4.9-17.9 8 7.2 3.1-15.5 2 1.6 0.4- 6.7 5 1.9 0.7- 5.6
Female 246 160 65.2 56.2-73.3 30 12.5 8.2-18.5 21 8.3 4.6-14.6 21 6.7 4.1-10.8 14 7.3 3.2-15.8
RACE
White 315 217 69.9 62.5-76.3 33 10.0 6.7-14.5 24 8.5 5.0-14.1 23 5.9 3.7- 9.2 18 5.8 2.7-12.2
Other 47 34 74.6 57.7-86.4 7 17.4 7.9-34.1 5 5.5 2.0-14.6 0 0.0 . - . 1 2.4 0.3-15.3
AGE
18-44 143 102 75.1 66.0-82.5 19 11.4 6.8-18.4 10 7.9 3.8-15.6 11 4.8 2.5- 9.0 1 0.8 0.1- 5.5
45+ 217 149 65.4 56.2-73.6 20 11.1 6.8-17.6 18 7.7 4.3-13.4 12 4.6 2.4- 8.5 18 11.2 5.3-22.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 129 92 73.1 62.8-81.4 11 11.6 6.0-21.5 8 6.0 2.7-12.8 9 4.6 2.3- 9.1 9 4.6 2.1- 9.9
Some College + 233 159 69.8 61.1-77.3 29 11.2 7.3-16.6 21 8.8 4.9-15.4 14 4.8 2.6- 8.5 10 5.4 2.0-13.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 138 89 65.1 54.6-74.3 15 13.3 7.4-22.6 12 7.8 4.0-14.5 11 7.1 3.5-13.8 11 6.8 3.3-13.5
$50,000+ 179 132 75.5 66.3-82.9 21 10.8 6.7-17.0 14 6.1 3.2-11.1 8 3.2 1.5- 6.5 4 4.4 1.1-16.5

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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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