2011 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-MALES

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 11,318 8,019 67.3 65.9-68.8 774 7.8 6.9- 8.7 953 9.8 8.9-10.7 876 9.3 8.4-10.3 696 5.8 5.2- 6.5
-MALES 4,227 3,233 72.2 70.0-74.4 256 7.2 6.0- 8.7 271 8.4 7.1-10.0 248 7.1 6.0- 8.5 219 4.9 4.1- 6.0
RACE
White 3,292 2,559 73.7 71.1-76.0 194 7.4 6.0- 9.2 193 7.1 5.8- 8.6 180 7.1 5.7- 8.8 166 4.7 3.7- 5.8
African American 572 415 69.9 64.0-75.1 37 5.4 3.3- 8.6 48 11.8 8.1-16.9 42 7.6 5.2-11.0 30 5.3 3.1- 8.8
Other Minorities 331 237 68.4 60.1-75.7 25 10.0 5.7-16.9 29 10.8 6.5-17.5 21 4.8 2.5- 9.3 19 6.0 3.2-11.0
AGE
18-34 583 399 65.4 60.4-70.0 55 10.8 7.9-14.6 62 11.7 8.9-15.2 40 7.7 5.4-11.0 27 4.4 2.9- 6.7
35-44 586 411 71.8 66.6-76.4 50 6.4 4.5- 9.2 55 8.5 5.8-12.1 47 9.1 6.3-13.0 23 4.2 2.5- 7.0
45-54 775 547 69.3 64.0-74.1 54 8.3 5.5-12.2 54 9.4 6.3-13.8 63 6.7 4.8- 9.2 57 6.3 4.2- 9.5
55-64 927 709 77.6 73.4-81.2 52 4.1 2.9- 5.8 52 4.5 3.1- 6.5 57 7.3 5.0-10.5 57 6.6 4.5- 9.5
65-74 783 666 83.5 78.8-87.4 34 3.4 2.2- 5.1 30 5.1 2.9- 8.7 26 5.0 2.7- 9.0 27 3.1 1.9- 5.0
75+ 541 475 89.3 85.0-92.4 *** *** *** 17 3.4 1.7- 6.6 14 1.8 1.0- 3.5 26 4.2 2.3- 7.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 538 389 72.1 66.1-77.4 18 3.8 1.8- 7.8 36 8.4 5.3-13.1 38 7.1 4.6-10.7 57 8.6 6.0-12.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,211 923 71.2 66.9-75.2 58 6.2 4.2- 9.1 78 9.1 6.7-12.2 82 7.9 5.7-10.8 70 5.6 3.9- 8.0
Some Post-H.S. 976 731 70.3 65.7-74.6 61 8.4 5.8-11.9 67 9.0 6.5-12.3 69 8.4 6.1-11.5 48 3.9 2.6- 5.8
College Graduate 1,487 1,178 75.9 72.4-79.1 118 9.9 7.8-12.5 90 7.1 5.3- 9.4 59 4.8 3.2- 7.0 42 2.4 1.5- 3.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 388 237 55.3 47.5-62.9 15 3.9 1.7- 8.8 30 12.2 7.4-19.3 49 12.3 8.4-17.7 57 16.3 11.3-22.8
$15,000- 24,999 686 503 69.1 63.1-74.5 35 7.3 4.3-11.9 54 10.6 7.3-15.2 45 7.1 4.6-10.8 49 5.9 3.7- 9.3
$25,000- 34,999 428 324 69.5 62.0-76.1 19 5.2 2.6-10.2 28 9.1 5.2-15.3 33 12.7 8.4-18.8 24 3.5 1.9- 6.1
$35,000- 49,999 575 462 79.4 73.9-84.1 40 10.0 6.3-15.4 31 4.6 2.9- 7.2 29 3.9 2.3- 6.4 13 2.2 1.1- 4.3
$50,000- 74,999 581 454 75.3 69.1-80.6 33 6.8 3.9-11.5 40 6.8 4.4-10.5 32 7.6 4.5-12.7 22 3.5 2.0- 6.1
$75,000+ 1,022 826 76.8 72.3-80.7 86 9.3 6.8-12.5 61 8.4 5.8-11.8 37 4.1 2.5- 6.6 12 1.5 0.7- 3.2
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,138 755 57.3 52.4-62.1 48 4.1 2.6- 6.3 79 10.8 7.7-15.0 121 15.8 12.2-20.1 135 12.0 9.5-15.2
No 2,880 2,327 77.0 74.5-79.4 196 7.9 6.4- 9.8 176 7.6 6.2- 9.3 115 4.5 3.5- 5.7 66 2.9 2.1- 4.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,411 1,137 78.9 75.2-82.1 62 3.4 2.4- 4.8 68 6.3 4.3- 9.1 71 6.0 4.3- 8.3 73 5.4 3.8- 7.6
Non-Veteran 2,813 2,094 70.3 67.6-72.9 194 8.4 6.8-10.2 203 9.1 7.5-10.9 177 7.5 6.1- 9.2 145 4.8 3.8- 6.1

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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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