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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake 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
-Wake County 595 401 64.6 58.8-70.0 67 13.6 9.9-18.5 60 10.2 7.4-13.9 34 7.0 4.2-11.5 33 4.6 2.7- 7.8
GENDER
Male 231 167 68.4 58.6-76.7 31 14.3 8.6-22.8 17 8.2 4.6-14.4 7 5.5 1.9-14.4 9 3.6 1.1-11.1
Female 364 234 60.6 54.0-66.9 36 12.9 8.9-18.4 43 12.3 8.6-17.1 27 8.7 5.2-14.2 24 5.6 3.5- 8.6
RACE
White 457 309 65.0 58.9-70.7 58 15.0 11.1-19.9 40 8.6 5.9-12.3 26 6.4 3.7-10.7 24 5.0 2.6- 9.6
Other 133 89 64.8 51.5-76.2 8 10.5 3.8-25.5 19 12.4 6.8-21.5 8 8.7 3.1-22.0 9 3.7 1.7- 7.9
AGE
18-44 218 138 60.1 51.1-68.5 34 16.4 10.7-24.4 30 12.5 8.2-18.6 11 7.7 3.6-15.7 5 3.2 1.0-10.0
45+ 369 255 70.7 65.4-75.6 33 9.7 6.7-13.8 30 6.9 4.7-10.1 23 6.1 4.0- 9.3 28 6.6 4.4- 9.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 123 77 60.9 45.2-74.5 5 8.1 1.8-29.3 11 8.7 3.8-18.7 12 9.9 3.5-25.1 18 12.4 5.8-24.5
Some College + 472 324 65.9 60.1-71.2 62 15.5 11.6-20.2 49 10.7 7.6-14.8 22 6.0 3.5-10.4 15 2.0 1.1- 3.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 172 95 51.9 40.3-63.2 17 13.7 5.8-28.9 26 15.4 9.4-24.4 14 11.3 4.5-25.5 20 7.7 4.5-12.9
$50,000+ 340 239 67.6 61.0-73.5 45 14.9 10.9-20.1 29 9.5 6.1-14.5 19 6.6 3.7-11.4 8 1.5 0.7- 3.1

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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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