2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-Whites

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
-Whites 5,068 3,344 65.5 63.9-67.1 444 9.9 8.9-11.1 449 9.3 8.3-10.4 365 7.0 6.2- 7.8 466 8.3 7.4- 9.3
GENDER
Male 2,199 1,488 67.9 65.4-70.2 190 9.3 7.9-11.0 193 9.0 7.7-10.6 128 5.5 4.5- 6.7 200 8.3 7.0- 9.8
Female 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
HISPANIC
Hispanic 180 131 72.1 63.8-79.1 *** *** *** 19 9.1 5.6-14.4 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic 4,878 3,209 65.3 63.7-67.0 432 10.1 9.0-11.3 427 9.3 8.3-10.4 353 6.9 6.1- 7.7 457 8.4 7.5- 9.4
AGE
18-34 743 514 66.9 62.8-70.7 96 13.6 10.9-16.7 78 11.2 8.8-14.2 35 4.8 3.4- 6.8 20 3.5 2.1- 5.8
35-44 586 396 66.1 61.6-70.3 73 12.3 9.6-15.6 50 8.4 6.2-11.2 37 7.1 5.0-10.0 30 6.1 4.1- 9.0
45-54 732 486 66.1 62.1-69.9 67 9.1 6.9-12.0 61 8.5 6.5-11.2 51 6.5 4.9- 8.7 67 9.7 7.5-12.5
55-64 1,101 673 60.5 57.2-63.7 99 8.6 7.0-10.6 103 10.1 8.3-12.3 108 9.6 7.9-11.7 118 11.1 9.2-13.5
65-74 1,084 719 65.5 62.1-68.7 71 6.5 5.0- 8.4 93 8.0 6.4-10.0 85 9.1 7.1-11.6 116 10.9 8.9-13.2
75+ 765 510 66.9 63.0-70.6 33 4.4 3.0- 6.5 62 7.7 5.9-10.1 47 6.1 4.4- 8.2 113 14.9 12.2-18.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 494 267 51.6 46.2-57.0 25 7.6 4.8-12.0 43 8.8 6.3-12.2 61 12.5 9.4-16.4 98 19.5 15.4-24.3
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,328 839 64.4 61.3-67.5 97 8.6 6.8-10.7 121 9.3 7.5-11.5 101 7.4 5.9- 9.2 170 10.3 8.6-12.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,352 876 65.8 62.7-68.8 108 9.8 8.0-12.1 135 10.3 8.5-12.6 113 7.2 5.8- 8.8 120 6.9 5.6- 8.4
College Graduate 1,879 1,349 72.3 69.9-74.6 214 12.4 10.8-14.3 149 8.3 6.9-10.0 90 3.8 3.0- 4.9 77 3.0 2.3- 4.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 452 212 44.8 39.3-50.5 32 8.5 5.7-12.6 38 8.9 6.1-12.8 60 13.8 10.4-18.0 110 24.0 19.3-29.3
$15,000- 24,999 700 391 55.5 50.9-60.1 53 9.4 6.8-12.7 63 8.3 6.2-11.1 81 11.0 8.5-14.1 112 15.8 12.6-19.7
$25,000- 34,999 466 295 59.8 54.2-65.1 40 11.9 8.3-16.8 46 10.4 7.5-14.4 40 8.9 6.3-12.5 45 9.0 6.3-12.7
$35,000- 49,999 616 409 65.1 60.1-69.7 62 11.7 8.6-15.7 70 12.2 9.1-16.2 40 6.3 4.3- 9.1 35 4.8 3.3- 7.1
$50,000- 74,999 619 425 67.8 63.0-72.1 77 14.1 10.9-18.2 56 9.2 6.9-12.2 30 5.5 3.6- 8.2 31 3.5 2.2- 5.3
$75,000+ 1,225 924 76.0 72.9-78.8 119 9.2 7.5-11.2 94 8.3 6.4-10.6 46 3.4 2.4- 4.8 42 3.2 2.3- 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,377 510 35.1 32.1-38.2 101 8.6 6.6-11.1 165 12.9 10.7-15.3 232 18.0 15.6-20.6 369 25.6 22.9-28.4
No 3,547 2,742 75.6 73.7-77.3 332 10.5 9.3-11.8 273 8.1 7.0- 9.3 119 3.3 2.7- 4.1 81 2.6 1.9- 3.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 773 532 70.1 66.2-73.8 63 8.3 6.2-11.1 66 8.9 6.8-11.5 43 5.2 3.7- 7.2 69 7.5 5.7- 9.8
Non-Veteran 4,291 2,810 64.8 63.0-66.5 381 10.2 9.1-11.4 383 9.4 8.3-10.6 322 7.3 6.4- 8.2 395 8.4 7.4- 9.5
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 3,017 1,954 64.7 62.6-66.8 250 9.3 8.0-10.7 273 9.5 8.2-10.8 227 7.2 6.1- 8.3 313 9.4 8.2-10.8
No 2,051 1,390 66.7 64.1-69.2 194 10.8 9.2-12.7 176 9.1 7.6-10.9 138 6.7 5.5- 8.1 153 6.7 5.6- 8.1

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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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