2014 BRFSS Survey Results: 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%)
TOTAL 7,255 689 6.6 6.1- 7.2 6,566 93.4 92.8-93.9
GENDER
Male 3,097 310 6.7 5.9- 7.6 2,787 93.3 92.4-94.1
Female 4,158 379 6.6 5.9- 7.4 3,779 93.4 92.6-94.1
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 4,921 658 9.5 8.7-10.4 4,263 90.5 89.6-91.3
Non-Hispanic Black 1,379 *** *** *** 1,376 99.9 99.7- 100
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 114 *** *** *** 107 93.6 85.7-97.3
Non-Hispanic Other 251 12 3.8 1.3-10.3 239 96.2 89.7-98.7
Hispanic 504 *** *** *** 503 99.9 99.1- 100
AGE
18-34 1,270 14 1.0 0.5- 2.0 1,256 99.0 98.0-99.5
35-44 956 13 1.2 0.6- 2.1 943 98.8 97.9-99.4
45-54 1,095 53 4.6 3.4- 6.1 1,042 95.4 93.9-96.6
55-64 1,512 146 9.5 8.0-11.3 1,366 90.5 88.7-92.0
65-74 1,362 229 17.3 15.1-19.7 1,133 82.7 80.3-84.9
75+ 955 232 23.4 20.5-26.6 723 76.6 73.4-79.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 919 78 6.8 5.2- 8.8 841 93.2 91.2-94.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,995 166 5.9 5.0- 7.0 1,829 94.1 93.0-95.0
Some Post-H.S. 1,916 167 5.7 4.8- 6.8 1,749 94.3 93.2-95.2
College Graduate 2,392 276 8.6 7.6- 9.8 2,116 91.4 90.2-92.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 849 55 4.4 3.2- 5.9 794 95.6 94.1-96.8
$15,000- 24,999 1,186 87 5.4 4.2- 6.8 1,099 94.6 93.2-95.8
$25,000- 34,999 701 67 6.9 5.3- 9.0 634 93.1 91.0-94.7
$35,000- 49,999 844 93 7.9 6.3- 9.8 751 92.1 90.2-93.7
$50,000-74,999 788 73 6.2 4.6- 8.2 715 93.8 91.8-95.4
$75,000+ 1,455 160 7.4 6.2- 8.9 1,295 92.6 91.1-93.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,936 280 11.9 10.4-13.6 1,656 88.1 86.4-89.6
No 5,063 394 5.2 4.6- 5.8 4,669 94.8 94.2-95.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 993 156 11.8 9.9-14.0 837 88.2 86.0-90.1
Non-Veteran 6,249 531 5.9 5.3- 6.5 5,718 94.1 93.5-94.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 4,232 413 7.1 6.3- 7.9 3,819 92.9 92.1-93.7
No 3,023 276 6.0 5.3- 6.9 2,747 94.0 93.1-94.7

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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.

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