2012 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 11,582 7,603 67.2 66.0-68.3 941 9.0 8.3- 9.7 1,055 9.4 8.7-10.2 898 7.1 6.5- 7.8 1,085 7.3 6.8- 7.9
-FEMALES 7,039 4,434 64.2 62.7-65.7 608 9.5 8.6-10.5 714 10.9 9.9-11.9 624 8.3 7.5- 9.2 659 7.1 6.4- 7.8
RACE
White 4,905 3,113 64.3 62.5-66.0 442 10.1 9.0-11.3 475 10.5 9.4-11.8 430 8.3 7.4- 9.3 445 6.8 6.1- 7.7
African American 1,414 888 64.4 61.1-67.6 119 8.7 7.0-10.8 154 11.1 9.0-13.5 126 8.4 6.6-10.6 127 7.4 5.9- 9.4
Other Minorities 655 395 63.6 58.3-68.7 42 6.8 4.2-10.8 81 13.8 10.4-18.1 62 8.7 6.2-12.0 75 7.1 5.2- 9.6
AGE
18-34 1,141 797 68.8 65.5-72.0 128 11.7 9.6-14.1 124 12.1 9.8-14.8 68 5.3 4.1- 7.0 24 2.1 1.4- 3.3
35-44 926 585 62.7 58.9-66.4 100 11.7 9.3-14.7 114 12.3 10.0-14.9 73 8.4 6.4-11.0 54 4.9 3.5- 6.8
45-54 1,222 757 62.8 59.3-66.2 121 9.0 7.3-11.0 112 10.0 7.9-12.6 110 9.9 7.8-12.5 122 8.4 6.6-10.5
55-64 1,393 834 61.6 58.5-64.7 124 9.0 7.3-11.0 132 9.6 7.8-11.6 155 10.1 8.4-12.1 148 9.7 8.0-11.8
65-74 1,275 801 63.6 60.3-66.8 78 6.3 4.7- 8.3 139 10.7 8.8-12.9 123 10.2 8.2-12.5 134 9.3 7.5-11.3
75+ 993 597 59.8 56.0-63.5 50 4.6 3.3- 6.3 90 9.4 7.4-11.7 88 9.1 7.0-11.8 168 17.2 14.4-20.4
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 817 456 57.5 52.9-62.0 25 4.1 2.4- 6.9 89 13.2 10.1-17.1 101 11.6 9.2-14.6 146 13.6 11.0-16.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 2,025 1,266 65.4 62.7-67.9 150 8.1 6.7- 9.8 177 8.9 7.4-10.6 192 8.9 7.5-10.6 240 8.8 7.5-10.3
Some Post-H.S. 2,000 1,226 62.9 60.1-65.6 182 10.3 8.7-12.3 223 12.1 10.3-14.3 192 8.6 7.2-10.3 177 6.0 5.0- 7.3
College Graduate 2,175 1,472 68.6 66.1-71.0 251 13.1 11.3-15.2 223 9.9 8.4-11.5 136 5.4 4.4- 6.7 93 3.0 2.3- 3.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 913 421 51.3 46.9-55.6 55 6.8 4.9- 9.3 104 11.1 8.7-13.9 134 13.2 10.7-16.3 199 17.6 14.7-21.0
$15,000- 24,999 1,243 712 57.0 53.3-60.6 91 7.4 5.7- 9.5 143 14.1 11.5-17.2 141 11.8 9.6-14.5 156 9.6 8.0-11.5
$25,000- 34,999 757 474 65.3 60.9-69.5 74 9.3 7.1-12.2 74 10.2 7.7-13.4 73 9.1 6.7-12.2 62 6.1 4.4- 8.3
$35,000- 49,999 829 550 67.7 63.4-71.6 78 10.3 7.7-13.7 91 9.7 7.6-12.3 68 8.5 6.3-11.3 42 3.9 2.7- 5.5
$50,000- 74,999 796 572 71.1 66.7-75.2 82 11.1 8.7-14.1 78 11.1 8.0-15.2 46 4.9 3.5- 6.8 18 1.8 1.0- 3.1
$75,000+ 1,120 807 71.4 68.0-74.7 134 12.9 10.6-15.7 101 9.2 7.3-11.6 50 4.2 2.9- 6.1 28 2.1 1.3- 3.5
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,869 580 31.0 28.3-33.9 117 6.6 5.1- 8.4 245 14.5 12.3-16.9 392 22.2 19.8-24.8 535 25.8 23.3-28.4
No 5,095 3,810 73.4 71.8-75.0 487 10.4 9.4-11.6 461 9.8 8.8-11.0 224 4.5 3.7- 5.3 113 1.8 1.5- 2.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 154 98 67.7 57.7-76.3 19 13.7 8.2-22.1 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 6,883 4,335 64.1 62.6-65.6 589 9.5 8.6-10.4 698 10.9 9.9-12.0 614 8.4 7.6- 9.3 647 7.1 6.4- 7.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2012 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2012 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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