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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake County

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your mental 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 13,068 9,042 66.3 64.8-67.8 933 7.7 7.0- 8.6 1,216 10.8 9.8-12.0 1,096 9.6 8.7-10.5 781 5.5 4.9- 6.3
-Wake County 595 382 61.2 55.5-66.7 66 11.6 8.1-16.3 67 13.1 9.8-17.2 56 11.3 8.0-15.8 24 2.8 1.7- 4.5
GENDER
Male 228 162 66.3 56.8-74.7 23 12.1 6.6-21.0 22 10.8 6.8-16.8 15 9.3 4.6-17.6 6 1.5 0.6- 3.9
Female 367 220 56.0 49.4-62.4 43 11.1 7.8-15.7 45 15.4 10.7-21.6 41 13.4 9.4-18.7 18 4.1 2.3- 7.0
RACE
White 454 302 65.5 59.7-70.9 52 10.5 7.5-14.6 49 12.3 8.8-16.8 32 8.4 5.7-12.4 19 3.2 1.9- 5.4
Other 136 77 53.0 40.5-65.1 14 14.3 6.7-27.9 17 13.5 7.5-23.2 23 17.3 9.6-29.2 5 1.9 0.6- 5.6
AGE
18-44 220 127 55.3 46.6-63.7 22 12.1 7.0-20.1 36 16.1 11.1-22.9 29 14.2 9.1-21.5 6 2.3 1.0- 5.2
45+ 366 247 69.7 64.2-74.6 43 10.9 7.9-14.8 31 8.7 6.0-12.5 27 7.2 4.8-10.7 18 3.5 2.1- 5.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 125 73 55.0 40.2-68.9 8 11.3 3.8-29.0 12 9.1 4.0-19.3 21 19.2 10.1-33.3 11 5.5 2.6-11.2
Some College + 470 309 63.4 57.7-68.7 58 11.7 8.5-15.9 55 14.4 10.7-19.3 35 8.6 5.9-12.5 13 1.8 1.0- 3.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 172 94 46.8 35.9-58.0 19 16.4 7.8-31.2 16 11.0 5.6-20.4 30 20.8 12.2-33.0 13 5.0 2.6- 9.5
$50,000+ 337 225 64.0 57.4-70.1 39 10.7 7.3-15.3 42 15.0 10.6-20.7 24 8.7 5.5-13.3 7 1.7 0.8- 3.9

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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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