SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake County

Health Status

Would you say that in general your health is?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 13,246 2,271 19.2 17.8-20.5 4,022 32.2 30.8-33.7 4,195 30.5 29.2-32.0 1,835 13.3 12.1-14.6 923 4.8 4.3- 5.3
-Wake County 603 120 20.3 16.0-25.5 208 36.1 31.0-41.4 194 31.9 27.0-37.2 58 9.7 6.3-14.8 23 2.0 1.3- 3.1
GENDER
Male 231 44 19.9 13.0-29.3 95 39.3 31.2-48.0 68 29.2 21.8-37.8 18 10.9 5.2-21.4 6 0.7 0.3- 1.7
Female 372 76 20.8 16.2-26.1 113 32.8 26.9-39.2 126 34.6 28.7-41.1 40 8.5 6.0-12.0 17 3.3 2.0- 5.5
RACE
White 461 104 22.3 18.0-27.3 162 38.9 33.2-44.9 142 31.2 25.8-37.2 34 5.1 3.4- 7.5 19 2.5 1.5- 4.1
Other 137 15 16.1 7.5-31.4 42 28.4 19.6-39.1 52 34.3 24.3-46.0 24 20.2 10.8-34.6 4 1.0 0.4- 2.8
AGE
18-44 220 54 21.7 15.1-30.1 88 37.1 29.5-45.4 64 31.4 24.1-39.8 12 9.3 4.4-18.7 2 0.5 0.1- 1.8
45+ 375 64 18.1 14.1-23.0 117 34.7 29.3-40.4 127 32.5 27.4-38.0 46 10.5 7.7-14.2 21 4.3 2.7- 6.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 130 12 16.5 6.7-35.4 27 20.1 11.8-32.2 53 34.9 23.4-48.4 25 23.7 12.6-40.2 13 4.8 2.5- 8.8
Some College + 473 108 21.6 17.6-26.3 181 41.6 36.1-47.3 141 30.9 25.7-36.5 33 4.9 3.3- 7.2 10 1.0 0.5- 2.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 18 8.0 4.7-13.4 46 25.4 17.7-35.2 65 37.9 28.0-48.9 32 24.2 13.8-38.9 15 4.5 2.5- 8.1
$50,000+ 341 93 24.9 20.0-30.5 137 44.1 37.7-50.7 89 26.5 20.9-32.9 16 3.6 2.0- 6.3 6 1.0 0.4- 2.3

Back to Health Status.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 17JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook