2011 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-FEMALES

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 11,281 7,450 68.1 66.7-69.4 919 9.3 8.4-10.3 945 8.2 7.4- 9.0 851 7.0 6.3- 7.8 1,116 7.4 6.8- 8.1
-FEMALES 7,046 4,491 64.3 62.4-66.1 592 10.0 8.8-11.3 656 9.3 8.3-10.5 590 8.1 7.2- 9.2 717 8.3 7.4- 9.3
RACE
White 5,315 3,397 63.1 60.9-65.2 463 10.9 9.4-12.5 477 9.2 7.9-10.6 427 8.4 7.2- 9.8 551 8.5 7.5- 9.6
African American 1,204 759 67.5 63.3-71.4 83 7.2 5.2- 9.9 134 9.9 7.6-12.8 114 7.4 5.7- 9.6 114 8.0 6.0-10.6
Other Minorities 476 299 67.4 60.6-73.5 42 9.5 6.1-14.5 38 7.7 4.8-12.0 47 7.6 4.8-11.8 50 7.7 4.6-12.7
AGE
18-34 831 590 69.1 64.6-73.3 96 12.8 9.9-16.3 75 8.8 6.5-11.9 45 5.6 3.8- 8.3 25 3.7 2.2- 6.1
35-44 952 660 69.0 64.3-73.3 101 11.4 8.5-15.2 79 7.8 5.5-11.0 70 7.8 5.6-10.8 42 3.9 2.7- 5.7
45-54 1,290 778 59.0 55.0-62.8 139 10.5 8.5-13.0 139 11.2 9.0-13.8 120 10.2 8.0-13.0 114 9.1 7.0-11.7
55-64 1,504 901 57.6 53.8-61.2 135 9.2 7.2-11.7 126 8.6 6.8-10.8 147 10.7 8.5-13.4 195 13.9 11.5-16.8
65-74 1,288 812 65.0 61.2-68.5 65 3.8 2.8- 5.2 145 11.8 9.4-14.6 108 7.9 6.2-10.1 158 11.5 9.3-14.1
75+ 1,087 683 61.9 57.6-66.0 46 4.1 2.9- 5.9 82 7.9 5.6-11.1 96 8.7 6.5-11.4 180 17.5 14.4-21.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 851 453 56.7 51.1-62.1 37 5.5 3.1- 9.8 77 8.7 6.1-12.3 104 12.4 9.4-16.3 180 16.6 13.3-20.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 2,004 1,271 66.8 63.3-70.1 124 8.4 6.4-10.9 199 9.3 7.4-11.8 172 7.0 5.5- 8.8 238 8.5 7.0-10.3
Some Post-H.S. 1,879 1,146 61.9 58.3-65.3 174 10.5 8.4-13.2 181 10.0 8.1-12.4 192 9.5 7.6-11.8 186 8.1 6.5-10.1
College Graduate 2,299 1,614 69.1 66.2-71.9 256 13.8 11.7-16.2 199 8.8 7.2-10.7 122 5.1 3.9- 6.8 108 3.2 2.4- 4.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 925 419 51.8 46.5-57.1 54 6.7 4.3-10.2 90 7.3 5.4- 9.8 137 13.7 10.4-17.7 225 20.5 16.6-25.0
$15,000- 24,999 1,221 726 61.8 57.4-66.1 80 7.8 5.7-10.5 122 12.0 9.1-15.7 149 8.8 6.9-11.1 144 9.6 7.3-12.4
$25,000- 34,999 669 437 67.5 61.8-72.8 54 10.0 6.8-14.5 57 7.9 5.4-11.3 55 7.4 5.1-10.8 66 7.2 5.1-10.0
$35,000- 49,999 815 547 62.6 57.0-67.9 79 11.0 7.6-15.7 85 12.9 9.5-17.2 69 9.6 6.8-13.3 35 4.0 2.6- 6.1
$50,000- 74,999 752 518 66.5 60.9-71.7 84 15.0 10.9-20.4 84 9.7 7.3-12.9 26 4.4 2.4- 7.9 40 4.3 2.6- 7.1
$75,000+ 1,228 896 72.3 68.2-76.0 153 14.0 11.0-17.6 86 6.1 4.5- 8.3 53 4.5 2.9- 6.8 40 3.2 2.1- 4.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 2,142 781 34.9 31.6-38.3 155 6.8 5.4- 8.5 267 12.9 10.9-15.2 381 20.2 17.4-23.4 558 25.2 22.3-28.2
No 4,586 3,504 74.6 72.5-76.7 415 11.3 9.8-13.1 361 7.9 6.7- 9.3 183 3.8 3.0- 4.7 123 2.4 1.8- 3.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 146 *** *** *** 15 8.3 4.3-15.5 12 7.7 3.5-16.3 15 6.2 3.4-11.2 21 11.4 5.2-23.2
Non-Veteran 6,898 4,406 64.2 62.4-66.1 577 10.0 8.8-11.4 644 9.4 8.3-10.6 575 8.2 7.2- 9.3 696 8.2 7.3- 9.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2011 are NOT comparable to previous years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2011 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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