2014 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern 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 7,255 689 6.6 6.1- 7.2 6,566 93.4 92.8-93.9
-Eastern NC 2,261 212 6.9 5.9- 8.1 2,049 93.1 91.9-94.1
GENDER
Male 941 91 6.8 5.3- 8.8 850 93.2 91.2-94.7
Female 1,320 121 7.0 5.6- 8.6 1,199 93.0 91.4-94.4
RACE
White 1,464 197 9.8 8.4-11.5 1,267 90.2 88.5-91.6
African American 575 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other minorities 196 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HISPANIC
Hispanic 129 *** *** *** 129 100 . - .
Non-Hispanic 2,121 211 7.3 6.2- 8.6 1,910 92.7 91.4-93.8
AGE
18-34 402 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35-54 612 22 3.5 2.2- 5.5 590 96.5 94.5-97.8
55-64 524 49 9.6 7.1-12.8 475 90.4 87.2-92.9
65-74 420 66 16.5 12.7-21.3 354 83.5 78.7-87.3
75+ 281 69 23.8 18.6-30.0 212 76.2 70.0-81.4
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 292 29 9.3 5.9-14.4 263 90.7 85.6-94.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 694 53 5.4 4.0- 7.3 641 94.6 92.7-96.0
Some Post-H.S. 640 56 5.7 4.2- 7.7 584 94.3 92.3-95.8
College Graduate 626 73 9.3 7.3-11.9 553 90.7 88.1-92.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 286 19 5.4 3.2- 9.0 267 94.6 91.0-96.8
$15,000- 24,999 376 21 3.9 2.3- 6.5 355 96.1 93.5-97.7
$25,000- 34,999 245 20 5.7 3.5- 9.2 225 94.3 90.8-96.5
$35,000- 49,999 267 30 7.8 5.2-11.7 237 92.2 88.3-94.8
$50,000+ 648 70 8.1 6.0-10.9 578 91.9 89.1-94.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 655 88 12.4 9.5-16.0 567 87.6 84.0-90.5
No 1,518 116 5.0 4.1- 6.1 1,402 95.0 93.9-95.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 372 45 8.4 6.1-11.4 327 91.6 88.6-93.9
Non-Veteran 1,886 165 6.5 5.4- 7.9 1,721 93.5 92.1-94.6
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,889 179 7.0 5.8- 8.3 1,710 93.0 91.7-94.2
No 372 33 6.5 4.4- 9.6 339 93.5 90.4-95.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2014 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2014 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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