2014 BRFSS Survey Results: Eastern North Carolina**

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 7,134 4,734 66.8 65.5-68.2 582 9.3 8.4-10.2 639 9.2 8.4-10.1 537 6.9 6.2- 7.6 642 7.8 7.1- 8.6
-Eastern NC 2,212 1,425 65.8 63.4-68.2 158 8.3 6.9-10.0 202 9.2 7.8-10.7 188 7.6 6.4- 9.0 239 9.1 7.8-10.5
GENDER
Male 932 608 67.3 63.5-70.8 69 8.1 6.1-10.7 75 8.0 6.1-10.3 73 6.9 5.2- 9.0 107 9.8 7.9-12.2
Female 1,280 817 64.5 61.2-67.8 89 8.5 6.6-10.9 127 10.3 8.4-12.5 115 8.3 6.7-10.3 132 8.4 6.7-10.4
RACE
White 1,434 938 66.1 63.0-69.0 118 8.8 7.1-10.9 119 8.5 6.9-10.4 100 6.9 5.4- 8.7 159 9.7 8.0-11.7
African American 561 352 65.3 60.4-69.9 26 6.5 4.3- 9.9 66 11.4 8.6-15.0 66 9.1 6.9-12.0 51 7.6 5.4-10.5
Other minorities 192 120 65.6 56.4-73.8 *** *** *** 16 7.6 4.3-13.1 19 8.0 4.7-13.3 25 8.4 5.2-13.4
HISPANIC
Hispanic 127 94 78.4 69.8-85.0 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 2,076 1,327 65.2 62.6-67.7 154 8.6 7.1-10.4 189 9.3 7.9-11.0 176 7.6 6.4- 9.1 230 9.3 8.0-10.9
AGE
18-34 393 279 70.3 65.0-75.1 36 11.1 7.8-15.5 37 8.7 6.2-12.1 23 5.4 3.5- 8.3 18 4.5 2.7- 7.5
35-54 607 411 67.5 63.0-71.7 49 8.5 6.2-11.4 51 9.0 6.6-12.2 46 6.4 4.6- 8.8 50 8.6 6.3-11.7
55-64 514 288 56.9 51.9-61.8 40 7.5 5.4-10.4 56 10.5 8.0-13.8 65 12.5 9.5-16.4 65 12.5 9.6-16.2
65-74 412 260 61.4 55.5-66.9 26 5.6 3.7- 8.5 37 10.3 7.2-14.5 36 11.2 7.4-16.4 53 11.6 8.5-15.6
75+ 263 168 65.2 58.3-71.5 *** *** *** 20 6.8 4.2-10.9 18 6.6 4.1-10.7 52 19.7 14.7-25.9
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 283 150 54.9 47.8-61.8 *** *** *** 29 11.2 7.4-16.6 46 14.3 10.3-19.7 51 16.1 11.8-21.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 676 429 65.3 60.7-69.6 48 9.2 6.5-12.9 59 8.6 6.5-11.4 52 6.5 4.7- 8.9 88 10.4 7.9-13.4
Some Post-H.S. 625 396 67.3 62.8-71.4 53 9.5 6.9-12.8 65 9.7 7.3-12.6 58 7.6 5.6-10.2 53 6.1 4.5- 8.2
College Graduate 621 445 73.3 69.0-77.2 50 9.0 6.5-12.2 49 7.6 5.5-10.4 31 3.9 2.6- 5.9 46 6.2 4.4- 8.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 273 128 47.0 39.8-54.3 *** *** *** 39 15.1 10.7-21.0 38 13.7 9.4-19.3 55 18.3 13.4-24.7
$15,000- 24,999 368 207 55.8 49.3-62.1 20 8.7 5.1-14.4 39 10.6 7.2-15.5 52 12.7 9.2-17.3 50 12.2 8.9-16.5
$25,000- 34,999 243 155 66.1 58.4-73.0 16 7.1 4.0-12.5 25 9.6 6.1-14.9 18 6.3 3.7-10.4 29 10.9 6.8-17.0
$35,000- 49,999 262 179 70.3 63.4-76.3 23 8.5 5.2-13.5 24 8.4 5.3-13.1 21 7.1 4.2-11.6 15 5.7 3.2-10.0
$50,000+ 642 481 77.5 73.5-81.1 57 8.7 6.4-11.6 43 6.1 4.4- 8.4 19 3.2 1.8- 5.5 42 4.6 3.1- 6.7
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 621 197 32.4 27.8-37.4 40 5.5 3.9- 7.7 74 12.9 10.0-16.5 124 21.3 17.5-25.8 186 27.8 23.7-32.3
No 1,504 1,174 77.0 74.2-79.5 114 9.5 7.6-11.7 123 8.0 6.5- 9.9 51 2.6 1.9- 3.6 42 2.9 2.0- 4.2
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 371 248 68.2 62.5-73.5 26 6.1 3.9- 9.2 32 9.4 6.4-13.6 23 6.6 4.2-10.2 42 9.6 6.7-13.6
Non-Veteran 1,838 1,175 65.4 62.6-68.1 132 8.8 7.1-10.7 170 9.1 7.6-10.8 165 7.8 6.5- 9.4 196 8.9 7.5-10.5
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,845 1,181 65.3 62.5-67.9 130 8.3 6.8-10.2 171 9.4 7.9-11.1 158 7.7 6.4- 9.2 205 9.4 7.9-11.0
No 367 244 69.3 63.5-74.5 28 8.1 5.2-12.4 31 8.0 5.4-11.7 30 7.4 4.9-10.9 34 7.2 4.9-10.6

Back to Healthy Days.

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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16SEP15.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts