2011 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-MALES

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
-MALES 4,235 2,959 72.1 70.0-74.2 327 8.6 7.3-10.1 289 6.9 5.8- 8.3 261 5.8 4.7- 6.9 399 6.6 5.7- 7.6
RACE
White 3,307 2,315 71.2 68.7-73.5 264 9.8 8.2-11.6 216 6.8 5.5- 8.4 186 5.1 4.1- 6.4 326 7.1 6.1- 8.3
African American 568 383 72.3 66.8-77.1 43 7.1 4.6-10.8 43 6.2 4.0- 9.5 51 8.4 5.7-12.3 48 6.0 4.0- 8.9
Other Minorities 331 241 79.0 72.0-84.7 20 3.9 2.0- 7.5 27 9.2 5.5-15.1 20 3.9 1.7- 9.1 23 3.9 2.1- 7.3
AGE
18-34 578 438 77.0 72.6-80.9 64 9.7 7.2-12.9 39 7.0 4.8-10.1 25 4.3 2.7- 6.9 12 2.0 1.1- 3.7
35-44 588 443 76.6 71.6-81.0 63 8.8 6.3-12.3 39 6.4 4.2- 9.8 22 4.0 2.2- 7.2 21 4.1 2.3- 7.1
45-54 784 543 68.1 62.9-73.0 67 10.7 7.4-15.0 49 7.4 4.9-11.0 54 6.0 3.7- 9.5 71 7.8 5.8-10.5
55-64 925 610 67.4 62.9-71.6 57 6.8 4.7- 9.8 71 6.9 5.1- 9.3 63 7.9 5.6-11.0 124 11.0 8.6-14.0
65-74 786 537 66.4 61.4-71.1 46 5.5 3.7- 8.0 59 8.5 5.9-12.1 55 8.3 5.8-11.8 89 11.3 8.6-14.6
75+ 542 366 66.5 60.0-72.4 26 3.9 2.5- 6.2 28 3.9 2.5- 6.1 41 8.5 5.2-13.6 81 17.2 12.5-23.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 544 322 67.3 61.4-72.8 23 4.7 2.4- 8.9 41 6.8 4.4-10.3 53 8.6 5.6-12.9 105 12.6 9.6-16.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,206 804 68.4 64.2-72.2 86 9.1 6.7-12.2 100 9.5 7.1-12.6 85 5.7 4.2- 7.8 131 7.3 5.7- 9.4
Some Post-H.S. 980 699 74.9 70.8-78.7 80 8.8 6.5-11.8 58 5.9 4.1- 8.5 63 6.1 4.2- 8.8 80 4.3 3.2- 5.7
College Graduate 1,491 1,125 77.2 74.0-80.1 136 10.8 8.6-13.5 90 5.1 3.7- 7.0 60 3.2 2.3- 4.5 80 3.6 2.6- 5.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 398 198 54.8 47.2-62.2 16 4.1 2.1- 7.7 33 10.6 6.8-16.4 56 14.5 9.6-21.2 95 15.9 11.7-21.3
$15,000- 24,999 686 428 69.5 64.0-74.4 47 8.2 5.3-12.4 65 7.0 4.7-10.3 57 6.1 4.0- 9.3 89 9.2 6.8-12.4
$25,000- 34,999 430 288 72.2 65.2-78.3 38 7.7 4.8-12.1 34 8.9 5.0-15.5 29 6.2 3.7-10.4 41 5.0 3.2- 7.7
$35,000- 49,999 576 425 76.1 70.7-80.8 42 9.5 6.3-14.1 39 6.1 3.8- 9.6 27 3.4 2.0- 5.9 43 4.8 3.1- 7.3
$50,000- 74,999 582 433 70.6 64.2-76.3 50 10.1 6.5-15.4 37 8.3 5.1-13.3 34 7.1 4.4-11.3 28 3.8 2.2- 6.5
$75,000+ 1,025 808 79.3 75.3-82.8 98 10.4 7.9-13.7 53 4.4 3.1- 6.2 34 3.4 1.9- 6.0 32 2.5 1.5- 4.1
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,140 494 46.3 41.6-51.2 94 8.9 6.7-11.9 101 9.0 6.7-12.0 147 13.9 11.0-17.5 304 21.8 18.5-25.5
No 2,884 2,332 80.0 77.6-82.2 215 8.3 6.8-10.0 173 6.2 5.0- 7.8 95 3.2 2.3- 4.4 69 2.3 1.6- 3.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,420 965 69.0 65.2-72.5 108 9.1 6.9-11.9 86 5.8 4.2- 7.9 101 6.9 5.3- 9.1 160 9.2 7.4-11.4
Non-Veteran 2,813 1,994 73.1 70.6-75.5 218 8.4 7.0-10.2 203 7.3 5.9- 8.9 159 5.4 4.2- 6.9 239 5.8 4.8- 7.0

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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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