2012 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 11,582 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
-MALES 4,543 3,169 70.3 68.6-72.0 333 8.4 7.4- 9.6 341 7.9 6.9- 8.9 274 5.8 5.0- 6.8 426 7.5 6.7- 8.5
RACE
White 3,255 2,251 69.3 67.3-71.3 262 9.5 8.2-11.0 244 8.1 6.9- 9.4 188 5.3 4.5- 6.3 310 7.8 6.8- 8.9
African American 732 521 72.2 68.0-76.1 37 6.0 4.2- 8.5 54 7.2 5.1-10.1 49 7.0 5.0- 9.7 71 7.6 5.8-10.0
Other Minorities 521 374 74.3 68.3-79.5 32 5.9 3.5- 9.8 39 7.4 5.0-10.8 36 7.4 4.1-13.1 40 5.0 3.2- 7.6
AGE
18-34 874 644 72.5 68.8-75.9 92 10.9 8.6-13.7 72 8.6 6.7-11.0 40 4.9 3.4- 7.1 26 3.1 2.1- 4.7
35-44 687 492 71.8 67.7-75.5 59 8.7 6.5-11.5 51 7.2 5.3- 9.7 32 4.7 3.2- 6.8 53 7.7 5.6-10.4
45-54 798 549 68.8 64.7-72.6 65 7.9 5.9-10.4 59 8.9 6.5-12.0 50 6.0 4.4- 8.3 75 8.5 6.5-11.1
55-64 919 598 65.9 62.0-69.6 65 8.0 6.0-10.6 72 7.2 5.5- 9.5 73 8.4 6.3-11.3 111 10.4 8.4-12.9
65-74 778 556 72.7 68.8-76.3 38 4.6 3.2- 6.5 62 7.5 5.6- 9.9 39 5.4 3.7- 7.8 83 9.8 7.7-12.5
75+ 458 309 66.7 60.8-72.1 *** *** *** 24 5.3 3.0- 9.3 36 7.4 5.0-10.9 77 16.4 12.7-20.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 588 357 64.7 59.8-69.2 17 3.6 2.0- 6.4 42 7.8 5.6-10.9 59 9.7 7.1-13.0 113 14.2 11.4-17.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,306 873 69.3 66.1-72.4 74 6.3 4.9- 8.2 106 8.3 6.6-10.4 96 7.2 5.5- 9.5 157 8.8 7.3-10.6
Some Post-H.S. 1,149 803 69.7 66.3-72.9 102 11.1 8.7-13.9 77 7.7 5.9-10.0 66 4.8 3.7- 6.3 101 6.7 5.3- 8.5
College Graduate 1,483 1,121 76.2 73.2-78.9 140 11.3 9.3-13.8 116 7.7 6.0- 9.7 52 2.6 1.9- 3.6 54 2.2 1.6- 3.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 476 242 51.8 46.0-57.5 33 9.5 6.4-14.0 27 7.1 4.3-11.5 57 10.8 7.9-14.5 117 20.9 16.8-25.7
$15,000- 24,999 738 472 66.2 61.9-70.2 39 6.0 4.1- 8.5 72 10.3 7.9-13.4 63 8.8 6.6-11.6 92 8.7 6.8-11.1
$25,000- 34,999 498 336 67.8 62.2-72.9 32 6.6 4.4- 9.9 32 6.2 4.2- 9.0 39 8.1 5.0-13.1 59 11.3 8.4-15.1
$35,000- 49,999 589 417 74.8 70.4-78.6 55 9.0 6.6-12.0 47 6.4 4.6- 8.8 33 5.1 3.4- 7.5 37 4.8 3.2- 7.0
$50,000- 74,999 584 445 74.5 69.8-78.7 49 10.5 7.6-14.3 44 8.3 5.9-11.6 18 2.9 1.7- 5.1 28 3.8 2.5- 5.8
$75,000+ 1,070 838 77.7 74.0-80.9 95 10.2 7.8-13.2 74 6.9 5.0- 9.4 33 2.7 1.8- 4.1 30 2.6 1.6- 4.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,142 422 35.5 32.1-39.2 83 7.5 5.7- 9.7 124 12.0 9.7-14.7 169 15.9 13.3-18.9 344 29.0 25.9-32.4
No 3,349 2,712 79.1 77.3-80.9 245 8.6 7.4-10.0 216 6.9 5.9- 8.1 98 3.2 2.5- 4.2 78 2.1 1.6- 2.8
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,357 938 68.0 64.9-71.0 77 8.2 6.4-10.5 99 7.4 5.9- 9.3 94 6.7 5.4- 8.5 149 9.6 8.0-11.5
Non-Veteran 3,184 2,230 71.1 69.0-73.0 256 8.5 7.3- 9.9 241 8.0 6.8- 9.3 180 5.6 4.6- 6.7 277 6.9 6.0- 8.0

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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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