2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Healthy Days

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?

View results for a demographic group:
 Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  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
COUNTY/REGIONS
Buncombe 382 251 66.7 60.3-72.5 33 8.8 5.9-13.1 40 10.1 6.8-14.7 29 7.2 4.7-10.9 29 7.2 4.3-11.8
Cumberland 439 289 67.1 61.5-72.3 36 7.5 5.1-11.1 45 9.1 6.5-12.6 24 6.3 3.9-10.1 45 9.8 6.8-14.0
Durham 452 304 70.7 65.2-75.7 47 10.2 7.1-14.3 40 6.6 4.5- 9.5 30 6.3 3.9- 9.8 31 6.2 3.9- 9.8
Forsyth 415 283 70.3 64.5-75.5 33 7.1 4.6-10.7 41 9.6 6.7-13.5 23 6.5 4.0-10.3 35 6.6 4.5- 9.7
Gaston 359 231 68.9 62.2-74.9 20 5.5 3.2- 9.3 30 9.6 6.2-14.5 27 6.4 4.0-10.0 51 9.7 6.3-14.6
Guilford 495 330 67.7 62.3-72.8 46 9.2 6.6-12.8 49 11.3 7.9-15.8 38 7.3 4.7-11.1 32 4.5 3.0- 6.7
Mecklenburg 666 457 69.6 65.2-73.7 58 8.8 6.6-11.8 70 11.1 8.4-14.6 46 6.2 4.5- 8.4 35 4.3 2.9- 6.4
New Hanover 388 278 74.7 68.1-80.3 29 7.6 4.5-12.5 *** *** *** 30 5.1 3.3- 8.0 30 8.3 5.0-13.6
Union 378 265 70.8 63.8-76.9 29 7.7 4.8-12.0 30 6.9 4.0-11.5 22 6.8 4.0-11.2 32 7.9 4.8-12.9
Wake 690 466 66.7 62.2-70.9 70 13.1 10.0-16.9 73 10.7 8.2-13.9 46 6.0 4.3- 8.5 35 3.5 2.4- 5.1
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 3,804 2,435 66.0 64.0-68.0 298 8.8 7.7-10.1 350 9.4 8.2-10.7 322 7.2 6.3- 8.3 399 8.5 7.4- 9.7
Piedmont 6,211 4,141 67.9 66.3-69.4 526 9.2 8.3-10.2 572 9.8 8.8-10.8 441 6.8 6.0- 7.7 531 6.3 5.7- 7.0
Western NC 1,567 1,027 67.8 64.7-70.7 117 7.7 6.2- 9.5 133 7.4 6.0- 9.2 135 8.0 6.5- 9.9 155 9.1 7.5-11.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 1,074 687 66.9 63.1-70.5 93 9.1 7.1-11.6 96 7.9 6.1-10.3 94 7.3 5.6- 9.4 104 8.8 6.8-11.2
Northwest 1,855 1,231 68.2 65.5-70.8 130 7.3 5.9- 9.0 151 7.5 6.2- 9.1 144 8.2 6.7-10.0 199 8.8 7.4-10.3
Charlotte 1,888 1,274 69.8 67.0-72.5 152 8.4 6.9-10.2 176 9.8 8.0-11.8 132 6.3 5.1- 7.7 154 5.7 4.6- 7.1
Greensboro 1,313 873 67.3 63.9-70.5 111 8.1 6.5-10.0 120 11.1 8.7-13.9 97 7.0 5.4- 9.1 112 6.5 5.2- 8.2
Southern Regional 1,512 941 65.8 62.4-69.0 115 8.1 6.4-10.3 146 9.8 8.0-12.0 118 6.4 4.9- 8.2 192 9.9 8.0-12.2
Southeast 730 492 68.5 63.9-72.8 53 8.0 5.7-11.3 54 6.6 4.7- 9.4 65 7.8 5.7-10.5 66 9.0 6.6-12.1
Wake 1,649 1,115 67.2 64.0-70.2 146 11.2 9.1-13.7 159 9.5 7.8-11.4 116 6.9 5.3- 9.0 113 5.3 4.2- 6.6
Area L 381 251 67.8 61.7-73.3 34 11.7 8.1-16.7 35 9.7 6.3-14.6 34 6.6 4.4- 9.6 27 4.3 2.7- 6.6
Eastern 1,180 739 63.1 59.7-66.5 107 9.6 7.7-11.8 118 11.4 9.2-13.9 98 7.5 5.9- 9.5 118 8.4 6.8-10.4

Back to Healthy Days.

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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 05AUG13.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook