2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Status

General Health Indicator for Healthy North Carolina 2020

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  Total
Respond.^		 Excellent/Vg/Good Fair/Poor
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 7,256 5,721 81.0 80.0-82.1 1,535 19.0 17.9-20.0
GENDER
Male 3,100 2,464 81.8 80.2-83.3 636 18.2 16.7-19.8
Female 4,156 3,257 80.4 78.9-81.7 899 19.6 18.3-21.1
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 4,925 3,981 82.7 81.4-83.9 944 17.3 16.1-18.6
Non-Hispanic Black 1,379 1,059 80.7 78.2-83.0 320 19.3 17.0-21.8
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 115 82 75.4 64.9-83.5 33 24.6 16.5-35.1
Non-Hispanic Other 252 205 84.6 77.6-89.7 47 15.4 10.3-22.4
Hispanic 501 328 66.5 61.7-71.0 173 33.5 29.0-38.3
AGE
18-34 1,267 1,138 89.7 87.7-91.5 129 10.3 8.5-12.3
35-44 952 803 83.0 80.1-85.6 149 17.0 14.4-19.9
45-54 1,098 852 78.4 75.5-81.0 246 21.6 19.0-24.5
55-64 1,513 1,114 74.7 72.1-77.1 399 25.3 22.9-27.9
65-74 1,366 1,047 74.4 71.5-77.1 319 25.6 22.9-28.5
75+ 953 668 70.2 66.7-73.4 285 29.8 26.6-33.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 907 481 56.7 52.8-60.5 426 43.3 39.5-47.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,995 1,455 78.1 76.0-80.0 540 21.9 20.0-24.0
Some Post-H.S. 1,920 1,580 86.1 84.3-87.6 340 13.9 12.4-15.7
College Graduate 2,401 2,177 93.4 92.4-94.3 224 6.6 5.7- 7.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 847 463 59.1 55.1-63.0 384 40.9 37.0-44.9
$15,000- 24,999 1,187 804 70.0 66.8-72.9 383 30.0 27.1-33.2
$25,000- 34,999 700 544 78.2 74.4-81.6 156 21.8 18.4-25.6
$35,000- 49,999 845 727 88.7 86.0-90.9 118 11.3 9.1-14.0
$50,000-74,999 787 706 91.3 88.8-93.2 81 8.7 6.8-11.2
$75,000+ 1,457 1,363 94.3 92.7-95.6 94 5.7 4.4- 7.3
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,930 971 50.5 47.7-53.2 959 49.5 46.8-52.3
No 5,068 4,559 90.5 89.5-91.4 509 9.5 8.6-10.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 996 805 83.2 80.5-85.6 191 16.8 14.4-19.5
Non-Veteran 6,246 4,905 80.7 79.5-81.8 1,341 19.3 18.2-20.5
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 4,229 3,234 78.8 77.3-80.3 995 21.2 19.7-22.7
No 3,027 2,487 84.0 82.4-85.4 540 16.0 14.6-17.6

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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.

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