2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Status-Non-Hispanic Black

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%)
North Carolina 6,677 5,289 80.8 79.6-81.9 1,388 19.2 18.1-20.4
-Non-Hispanic Black 1,300 968 78.0 75.3-80.6 332 22.0 19.4-24.7
GENDER
Male 487 377 81.0 76.7-84.6 110 19.0 15.4-23.3
Female 813 591 75.6 71.9-79.0 222 24.4 21.0-28.1
AGE
18-34 252 226 90.3 85.4-93.7 26 9.7 6.3-14.6
35-44 216 184 87.0 81.4-91.0 32 13.0 9.0-18.6
45-54 256 188 73.1 66.3-79.0 68 26.9 21.0-33.7
55-64 277 178 65.5 58.1-72.2 99 34.5 27.8-41.9
65-74 182 128 67.9 58.9-75.8 54 32.1 24.2-41.1
75+ 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 161 78 51.9 42.2-61.4 83 48.1 38.6-57.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 475 340 79.3 75.1-82.9 135 20.7 17.1-24.9
Some Post-H.S. 353 278 83.3 78.7-87.1 75 16.7 12.9-21.3
College Graduate 310 271 89.0 84.4-92.4 39 11.0 7.6-15.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 198 120 63.0 53.8-71.4 78 37.0 28.6-46.2
$15,000- 24,999 299 198 70.5 63.9-76.2 101 29.5 23.8-36.1
$25,000- 34,999 129 111 86.5 78.8-91.7 18 13.5 8.3-21.2
$35,000- 49,999 140 117 86.5 79.1-91.5 23 13.5 8.5-20.9
$50,000- 74,999 129 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 138 *** *** *** *** *** ***
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 354 155 46.3 40.0-52.7 199 53.7 47.3-60.0
No 904 778 88.0 85.3-90.2 126 12.0 9.8-14.7
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 165 133 84.9 78.3-89.8 32 15.1 10.2-21.7
Non-Veteran 1,133 833 77.1 74.1-79.9 300 22.9 20.1-25.9
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 491 399 82.4 78.2-85.9 92 17.6 14.1-21.8
Regional City or Suburban 216 158 78.4 71.8-83.7 58 21.6 16.3-28.2
Rural 593 411 73.1 68.4-77.3 182 26.9 22.7-31.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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