2013 BRFSS Survey Results: Piedmont North Carolina**

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had skin cancer?

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Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 8,840 905 7.0 6.4- 7.6 7,935 93.0 92.4-93.6
-Piedmont NC 5,158 540 6.7 6.0- 7.5 4,618 93.3 92.5-94.0
GENDER
Male 2,031 219 7.0 5.9- 8.3 1,812 93.0 91.7-94.1
Female 3,127 321 6.4 5.6- 7.4 2,806 93.6 92.6-94.4
RACE
White 3,722 523 9.5 8.5-10.6 3,199 90.5 89.4-91.5
African American 1,007 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other minorities 354 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 320 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 4,807 538 7.3 6.6- 8.2 4,269 92.7 91.8-93.4
AGE
18-34 836 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-54 1,604 72 4.1 3.0- 5.5 1,532 95.9 94.5-97.0
55-64 1,014 111 10.7 8.6-13.2 903 89.3 86.8-91.4
65-74 903 167 17.0 14.2-20.2 736 83.0 79.8-85.8
75+ 751 181 22.9 19.3-27.0 570 77.1 73.0-80.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 671 58 5.3 3.7- 7.6 613 94.7 92.4-96.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,380 137 6.6 5.2- 8.4 1,243 93.4 91.6-94.8
Some Post-H.S. 1,351 141 5.5 4.5- 6.7 1,210 94.5 93.3-95.5
College Graduate 1,750 204 9.0 7.5-10.6 1,546 91.0 89.4-92.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 560 34 3.1 1.9- 5.1 526 96.9 94.9-98.1
$15,000- 24,999 885 66 3.8 2.8- 5.1 819 96.2 94.9-97.2
$25,000- 34,999 475 45 8.1 5.2-12.4 430 91.9 87.6-94.8
$35,000- 49,999 602 72 7.9 5.9-10.5 530 92.1 89.5-94.1
$50,000+ 1,610 184 7.6 6.4- 9.0 1,426 92.4 91.0-93.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,351 195 10.7 8.9-12.7 1,156 89.3 87.3-91.1
No 3,734 337 5.6 4.9- 6.5 3,397 94.4 93.5-95.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 575 108 12.8 10.2-16.0 467 87.2 84.0-89.8
Non-Veteran 4,580 431 6.1 5.3- 6.9 4,149 93.9 93.1-94.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,869 212 7.7 6.4- 9.2 1,657 92.3 90.8-93.6
No 3,289 328 6.3 5.5- 7.3 2,961 93.7 92.7-94.5

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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.

Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
**Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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