2013 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 8,659 5,570 66.1 64.8-67.5 727 9.2 8.4-10.1 787 9.4 8.6-10.3 720 7.7 7.0- 8.5 855 7.5 6.8- 8.2
-MALES 3,394 2,294 68.4 66.3-70.4 272 9.0 7.8-10.4 276 8.7 7.5-10.1 250 6.5 5.5- 7.6 302 7.5 6.5- 8.6
RACE
White 2,375 1,596 67.1 64.6-69.5 200 9.6 8.1-11.2 188 8.6 7.2-10.3 173 6.9 5.7- 8.4 218 7.8 6.6- 9.2
African American 582 395 71.6 66.9-75.8 44 6.9 4.8- 9.9 51 8.4 6.0-11.6 40 4.9 3.4- 7.1 52 8.2 5.8-11.3
Other Minorities 383 268 72.8 65.8-78.8 23 8.7 5.0-14.6 31 10.0 6.2-15.7 30 4.5 2.6- 7.6 31 4.0 2.2- 7.1
AGE
18-34 612 438 71.0 66.7-75.0 78 12.6 9.9-15.9 57 10.1 7.6-13.3 29 4.8 3.2- 7.3 *** *** ***
35-44 508 359 69.7 64.6-74.2 47 9.2 6.5-12.9 44 10.0 7.3-13.6 34 5.4 3.6- 7.9 24 5.7 3.6- 8.9
45-54 568 382 68.9 64.0-73.5 50 7.9 5.6-11.0 38 7.4 5.1-10.8 47 6.9 4.7-10.0 51 8.9 6.4-12.2
55-64 702 457 66.0 61.4-70.3 43 6.1 4.2- 8.8 50 5.4 3.8- 7.7 55 8.4 5.9-11.7 97 14.0 11.1-17.6
65-74 587 392 64.3 59.0-69.4 38 8.0 5.4-11.7 48 8.5 5.8-12.4 48 8.9 6.1-12.7 61 10.2 7.5-13.7
75+ 389 244 61.4 54.6-67.8 *** *** *** 36 9.8 6.3-14.8 36 7.9 5.4-11.4 57 17.6 12.5-24.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 483 285 57.9 52.1-63.4 17 5.7 3.4- 9.5 54 13.8 10.1-18.6 51 9.8 6.8-13.8 76 12.8 9.8-16.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 973 645 68.4 64.6-71.9 67 7.8 5.8-10.4 73 8.4 6.4-11.0 82 7.4 5.7- 9.5 106 8.1 6.3-10.2
Some Post-H.S. 834 540 68.0 63.9-71.9 85 11.2 8.8-14.3 67 8.0 5.9-10.6 60 5.2 3.6- 7.5 82 7.5 5.7- 9.9
College Graduate 1,097 819 76.6 73.3-79.5 103 10.4 8.3-13.0 82 6.3 4.7- 8.3 57 4.4 3.1- 6.1 36 2.4 1.6- 3.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 352 184 52.5 45.7-59.1 21 7.5 4.4-12.4 24 9.1 5.7-14.3 46 10.7 7.5-15.1 77 20.2 15.5-26.0
$15,000- 24,999 591 343 57.9 52.8-62.9 44 10.5 7.5-14.5 60 11.8 8.8-15.7 66 8.9 6.5-12.1 78 10.9 8.3-14.2
$25,000- 34,999 317 214 67.0 60.0-73.2 27 7.8 4.8-12.5 31 12.9 8.5-19.0 21 5.3 3.0- 9.1 24 7.0 4.3-11.3
$35,000- 49,999 405 278 72.0 66.3-77.0 31 7.2 4.7-10.9 38 8.9 6.0-12.8 28 5.8 3.6- 9.1 30 6.2 3.9- 9.7
$50,000- 74,999 386 297 76.2 70.1-81.3 25 7.5 4.7-11.6 30 5.9 3.7- 9.2 *** *** *** 15 4.4 2.4- 7.8
$75,000+ 779 598 77.6 73.6-81.2 89 11.1 8.6-14.2 48 6.3 4.2- 9.3 29 3.1 2.0- 4.8 *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 898 345 36.3 32.3-40.4 66 8.1 6.1-10.7 94 10.9 8.4-14.1 155 17.7 14.6-21.2 238 27.0 23.4-31.0
No 2,447 1,916 77.6 75.4-79.7 202 9.2 7.8-10.9 178 8.1 6.8- 9.7 93 3.3 2.5- 4.3 58 1.8 1.3- 2.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,015 677 67.1 63.2-70.8 65 7.3 5.4- 9.8 84 8.5 6.5-11.1 85 7.8 5.9-10.3 104 9.2 7.2-11.7
Non-Veteran 2,375 1,614 68.7 66.3-71.1 207 9.5 8.1-11.2 191 8.8 7.4-10.4 165 6.0 4.9- 7.4 198 6.9 5.8- 8.2
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,684 1,129 67.2 64.2-70.1 120 7.9 6.3- 9.9 128 9.1 7.3-11.2 134 6.8 5.4- 8.5 173 9.0 7.5-10.7
No 1,710 1,165 69.6 66.7-72.3 152 10.1 8.4-12.1 148 8.3 6.8-10.1 116 6.1 4.8- 7.8 129 5.9 4.7- 7.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2013 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2013 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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