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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake 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
-Wake County 578 500 88.2 84.6-91.1 78 11.8 8.9-15.4
GENDER
Male 221 195 90.8 85.3-94.4 26 9.2 5.6-14.7
Female 357 305 85.5 80.3-89.6 52 14.5 10.4-19.7
RACE
White 445 397 91.0 87.4-93.7 48 9.0 6.3-12.6
Other 128 98 81.4 71.6-88.3 30 18.6 11.7-28.4
AGE
18-44 208 191 91.9 86.1-95.4 17 8.1 4.6-13.9
45+ 362 301 82.9 78.0-86.9 61 17.1 13.1-22.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 120 94 84.7 74.9-91.1 26 15.3 8.9-25.1
Some College + 458 406 89.4 85.3-92.4 52 10.6 7.6-14.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 169 134 83.0 74.5-89.1 35 17.0 10.9-25.5
$50,000+ 329 300 92.0 87.8-94.8 29 8.0 5.2-12.2

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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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