2015 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 6,550 4,274 66.0 64.6-67.4 571 9.1 8.2-10.0 590 9.4 8.5-10.3 527 7.4 6.7- 8.2 588 8.1 7.4- 9.0
-FEMALES 3,732 2,317 61.9 59.9-63.8 360 10.5 9.3-11.8 350 9.8 8.6-11.1 352 9.2 8.1-10.4 353 8.6 7.6- 9.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 2,491 1,501 59.7 57.2-62.1 266 11.5 10.0-13.2 226 9.5 8.1-11.1 243 9.9 8.5-11.5 255 9.4 8.1-10.9
Non-Hispanic Black 796 518 64.7 60.4-68.7 63 9.6 7.2-12.8 73 9.0 6.7-11.9 67 8.0 6.0-10.6 75 8.7 6.6-11.4
Other 406 273 68.9 63.2-74.0 28 6.3 4.1- 9.5 47 12.7 9.2-17.2 37 7.6 5.2-11.1 21 4.6 2.7- 7.7
AGE
18-34 653 454 68.1 63.7-72.2 82 13.6 10.6-17.2 53 7.7 5.6-10.5 49 8.6 6.2-11.7 15 2.0 1.2- 3.6
35-44 515 336 65.5 60.5-70.1 64 11.8 9.1-15.3 46 11.0 7.8-15.2 43 7.0 5.0- 9.6 26 4.7 3.0- 7.3
45-54 634 374 58.5 54.0-62.9 63 9.4 7.0-12.3 63 10.7 8.1-13.9 67 10.3 7.9-13.2 67 11.2 8.5-14.7
55-64 723 399 52.3 47.9-56.7 75 10.6 8.2-13.6 82 12.1 9.4-15.3 75 10.9 8.4-14.0 92 14.1 11.0-17.8
65-74 672 411 58.8 54.2-63.4 43 6.6 4.8- 9.2 70 11.2 8.3-14.9 66 9.3 7.1-12.1 82 14.1 10.9-17.9
75+ 479 302 61.1 55.8-66.1 28 5.7 3.8- 8.5 32 7.1 4.8-10.5 49 11.1 8.1-14.9 68 15.1 11.5-19.4
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 378 188 48.2 41.9-54.6 19 5.9 3.2-10.7 39 13.1 9.0-18.7 57 14.3 10.3-19.4 75 18.5 14.1-23.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,000 628 65.2 61.6-68.7 65 8.0 5.9-10.7 90 8.8 6.9-11.2 98 8.5 6.8-10.7 119 9.4 7.6-11.5
Some Post-H.S. 1,096 638 59.3 55.8-62.7 114 12.1 9.9-14.8 122 10.8 8.8-13.2 121 10.2 8.4-12.5 101 7.5 6.1- 9.4
College Graduate 1,249 855 69.4 66.3-72.2 162 13.4 11.3-15.7 99 7.5 6.0- 9.3 76 5.8 4.5- 7.5 57 3.9 2.9- 5.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 405 200 49.9 43.8-56.1 23 6.1 3.7- 9.9 37 10.1 6.8-14.7 72 16.5 12.6-21.2 73 17.5 13.1-22.9
$15,000- 24,999 623 355 55.2 50.2-60.1 45 8.7 6.1-12.3 66 10.8 8.0-14.3 72 13.1 9.8-17.4 85 12.2 9.4-15.6
$25,000- 34,999 324 196 62.1 55.5-68.3 38 9.7 6.8-13.6 38 12.1 8.2-17.4 24 7.0 4.4-11.0 28 9.1 6.0-13.7
$35,000- 49,999 395 243 63.7 57.7-69.3 57 14.9 10.9-20.1 24 6.2 3.7-10.2 45 9.5 6.7-13.3 26 5.6 3.6- 8.7
$50,000- 74,999 399 272 66.4 60.2-72.1 39 11.7 8.3-16.2 43 12.4 8.3-18.1 28 6.0 3.9- 9.0 17 3.5 2.0- 6.2
$75,000+ 719 492 67.9 63.8-71.8 98 13.7 11.0-16.9 69 9.8 7.5-12.8 30 4.5 3.0- 6.7 30 4.1 2.7- 6.0
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,027 313 27.9 24.8-31.3 72 7.7 5.9- 9.9 137 14.4 11.7-17.4 228 22.9 19.9-26.2 277 27.2 23.9-30.7
No 2,634 1,955 73.2 70.9-75.3 282 11.6 10.1-13.3 209 8.4 7.1- 9.8 118 4.6 3.6- 5.8 70 2.3 1.8- 3.0
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 125 75 58.5 48.3-68.0 18 14.5 8.9-22.7 11 7.8 4.1-14.5 12 9.5 5.2-16.9 *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 3,599 2,235 62.0 60.0-63.9 341 10.4 9.1-11.7 339 9.8 8.6-11.2 340 9.2 8.1-10.5 344 8.6 7.6- 9.8
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,101 729 67.3 64.0-70.5 126 10.9 9.0-13.2 94 8.4 6.7-10.5 73 6.6 5.1- 8.5 79 6.8 5.2- 8.7
Regional City or Suburban 792 491 62.5 58.4-66.4 78 10.5 8.1-13.6 73 8.8 6.8-11.3 72 8.4 6.5-10.8 78 9.8 7.6-12.5
Rural 1,839 1,097 57.3 54.3-60.3 156 10.1 8.3-12.3 183 11.4 9.4-13.6 207 11.7 9.9-13.9 196 9.5 8.0-11.2

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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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