2011 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-WHITES

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
-WHITES 8,622 5,712 67.0 65.3-68.6 727 10.4 9.3-11.6 693 8.0 7.1- 9.0 613 6.8 6.0- 7.7 877 7.8 7.1- 8.6
GENDER
Male 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
Female 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
HISPANIC
Hispanic 155 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 3.6 1.7- 7.4 16 6.8 3.3-13.4
Non-Hispanic 8,456 5,592 66.8 65.1-68.4 719 10.4 9.3-11.5 684 8.1 7.2- 9.2 601 6.9 6.1- 7.8 860 7.8 7.1- 8.7
AGE
18-34 869 628 72.4 68.3-76.1 112 13.7 10.9-17.0 68 7.5 5.4-10.2 39 4.3 2.9- 6.5 22 2.2 1.2- 3.7
35-44 1,083 771 70.4 66.2-74.3 125 12.2 9.5-15.6 80 6.8 4.9- 9.4 63 6.4 4.5- 9.1 44 4.1 2.7- 6.2
45-54 1,529 975 61.9 58.2-65.6 163 11.3 9.0-14.1 143 10.2 8.0-12.8 110 7.5 5.6- 9.9 138 9.1 7.3-11.4
55-64 1,920 1,226 63.5 60.3-66.6 168 8.8 7.1-11.0 139 7.0 5.6- 8.8 149 8.8 7.0-11.1 238 11.8 9.9-14.0
65-74 1,731 1,140 65.5 62.1-68.7 93 4.9 3.7- 6.3 167 10.3 8.3-12.8 130 8.2 6.4-10.3 201 11.2 9.3-13.4
75+ 1,414 915 63.5 59.7-67.1 59 3.7 2.7- 5.1 91 6.4 4.6- 8.8 119 8.5 6.5-11.0 230 17.9 15.2-21.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 876 460 57.6 52.1-62.9 31 5.7 3.0-10.4 62 6.9 4.7-10.2 106 11.1 8.3-14.6 217 18.7 15.4-22.5
H.S. or G.E.D. 2,372 1,556 67.1 63.9-70.1 154 9.6 7.6-12.1 207 8.8 7.0-11.0 177 6.3 5.0- 7.9 278 8.2 6.8- 9.7
Some Post-H.S. 2,239 1,446 66.8 63.6-69.8 202 10.2 8.3-12.5 185 8.4 6.7-10.4 188 8.0 6.3-10.1 218 6.6 5.4- 8.1
College Graduate 3,117 2,239 71.7 69.2-74.0 338 13.4 11.6-15.5 239 7.4 6.1- 9.0 142 3.9 3.0- 5.1 159 3.6 2.8- 4.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 815 372 50.3 44.7-55.9 34 5.2 3.0- 8.9 67 7.9 5.4-11.4 106 14.2 10.5-18.9 236 22.4 18.6-26.6
$15,000- 24,999 1,286 758 62.2 57.7-66.4 83 8.4 6.1-11.4 113 8.7 6.4-11.8 148 8.3 6.4-10.5 184 12.5 10.0-15.6
$25,000- 34,999 825 535 67.5 62.3-72.3 73 9.9 7.1-13.7 71 8.4 5.5-12.7 64 7.4 5.3-10.3 82 6.8 5.0- 9.2
$35,000- 49,999 1,085 740 66.4 61.9-70.7 99 12.0 8.9-16.0 101 9.3 7.1-12.1 75 6.9 4.9- 9.5 70 5.4 3.9- 7.3
$50,000- 74,999 1,142 811 67.1 62.4-71.6 118 13.1 9.8-17.1 103 9.7 7.1-13.1 47 5.7 3.7- 8.7 63 4.4 3.0- 6.5
$75,000+ 1,941 1,466 75.1 72.0-78.0 223 13.1 10.8-15.7 122 5.5 4.3- 7.0 73 3.9 2.5- 5.8 57 2.5 1.7- 3.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 2,588 1,022 39.5 36.4-42.6 211 8.7 7.1-10.7 271 10.4 8.7-12.3 383 16.4 14.1-19.0 701 25.1 22.6-27.7
No 5,670 4,457 76.8 74.9-78.6 484 10.7 9.3-12.2 399 7.2 6.2- 8.5 200 3.5 2.8- 4.3 130 1.8 1.4- 2.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,286 871 67.7 63.6-71.5 90 8.6 6.4-11.6 77 6.0 4.3- 8.3 94 7.1 5.3- 9.4 154 10.7 8.5-13.3
Non-Veteran 7,335 4,841 66.9 65.1-68.6 636 10.6 9.4-11.9 616 8.3 7.3- 9.5 519 6.8 5.9- 7.8 723 7.4 6.6- 8.2

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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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