2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-FEMALES

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?

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  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
-FEMALES 4,072 2,648 65.0 63.2-66.8 341 9.8 8.6-11.1 370 9.5 8.4-10.7 350 8.1 7.2- 9.1 363 7.6 6.7- 8.6
RACE
White 2,869 1,856 63.3 61.1-65.5 254 10.5 9.0-12.1 256 9.6 8.3-11.0 237 8.3 7.2- 9.6 266 8.3 7.2- 9.6
African American 883 582 68.1 64.4-71.7 64 9.1 6.8-12.0 91 10.0 8.0-12.6 80 6.9 5.4- 8.8 66 5.8 4.3- 7.7
Other Minorities 267 173 70.3 63.5-76.3 20 6.4 3.9-10.4 18 6.1 3.1-11.5 27 9.3 6.0-14.0 29 7.9 5.1-12.2
AGE
18-34 664 474 68.7 64.5-72.6 78 13.3 10.5-16.7 70 11.3 8.8-14.4 29 4.3 2.9- 6.4 13 2.3 1.3- 4.2
35-44 523 355 66.0 61.2-70.5 61 11.5 8.8-14.8 43 8.5 6.1-11.7 41 8.8 6.3-12.2 23 5.2 3.2- 8.4
45-54 613 380 60.9 56.3-65.3 54 9.6 6.9-13.1 49 8.2 6.0-11.3 70 10.6 8.2-13.5 60 10.7 8.2-14.0
55-64 812 473 59.4 55.6-63.1 72 9.0 7.0-11.5 86 10.6 8.5-13.1 104 11.9 9.7-14.5 77 9.1 7.1-11.6
65-74 803 517 64.3 60.4-68.0 48 5.2 3.8- 7.1 76 9.4 7.3-12.0 62 8.6 6.5-11.4 100 12.5 10.1-15.3
75+ 593 398 67.5 63.0-71.6 22 3.7 2.2- 5.9 45 7.2 5.2- 9.9 41 7.1 5.1- 9.7 87 14.6 11.6-18.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 463 256 54.8 49.2-60.2 23 6.2 3.7-10.3 44 10.1 7.1-14.1 63 12.7 9.6-16.6 77 16.2 12.5-20.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,118 716 65.0 61.5-68.4 75 8.8 6.7-11.4 101 9.2 7.2-11.5 91 8.0 6.3-10.0 135 9.1 7.4-11.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,126 710 64.1 60.7-67.4 87 9.5 7.5-12.1 115 10.8 8.8-13.3 114 8.8 7.1-10.8 100 6.8 5.4- 8.5
College Graduate 1,345 949 71.5 68.6-74.2 156 13.4 11.3-15.8 110 7.9 6.3- 9.7 80 4.7 3.7- 6.0 50 2.5 1.8- 3.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 511 252 50.0 44.8-55.3 35 8.2 5.6-11.8 56 10.9 8.1-14.7 71 13.3 10.2-17.1 97 17.5 13.8-22.0
$15,000- 24,999 689 410 59.4 54.9-63.8 47 7.8 5.5-11.0 65 11.0 8.2-14.6 88 11.1 8.7-14.0 79 10.7 8.4-13.6
$25,000- 34,999 405 262 62.5 56.3-68.3 39 13.7 9.5-19.5 43 9.1 6.5-12.6 30 8.4 5.6-12.5 31 6.3 3.9-10.1
$35,000- 49,999 461 311 63.6 57.5-69.3 40 13.2 9.0-18.9 48 11.1 7.6-15.9 34 7.1 4.7-10.6 28 5.0 3.2- 7.6
$50,000- 74,999 404 279 67.9 62.1-73.1 46 11.7 8.4-16.1 33 9.5 6.6-13.7 28 7.6 5.0-11.5 18 3.3 1.8- 5.7
$75,000+ 704 523 74.8 70.8-78.3 80 11.2 8.8-14.2 49 7.2 5.2- 9.9 28 3.8 2.4- 5.8 24 3.0 1.8- 4.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,123 376 30.7 27.6-34.0 80 8.1 6.0-10.7 138 13.6 11.1-16.6 233 21.9 19.1-25.0 296 25.8 22.8-29.0
No 2,827 2,192 76.0 73.9-77.9 252 10.4 9.1-12.0 219 7.9 6.8- 9.3 106 3.7 2.9- 4.5 58 2.0 1.4- 2.8
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 109 73 67.5 56.7-76.7 *** *** *** 11 11.1 5.8-20.3 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 3,956 2,571 65.0 63.1-66.8 330 9.8 8.7-11.2 358 9.3 8.3-10.6 341 8.1 7.2- 9.1 356 7.7 6.8- 8.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 2,370 1,518 63.7 61.2-66.0 194 10.1 8.5-12.0 216 9.7 8.3-11.3 210 8.4 7.2- 9.8 232 8.1 6.9- 9.5
No 1,702 1,130 66.8 64.1-69.5 147 9.4 7.8-11.2 154 9.2 7.6-11.1 140 7.6 6.3- 9.2 131 7.0 5.7- 8.5

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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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