2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Status-Females

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
-FEMALES 3,812 2,965 79.0 77.4-80.5 847 21.0 19.5-22.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 2,548 2,038 80.8 78.9-82.6 510 19.2 17.4-21.1
Non-Hispanic Black 813 591 75.6 71.9-79.0 222 24.4 21.0-28.1
Other 410 308 75.7 70.4-80.3 102 24.3 19.7-29.6
AGE
18-34 657 584 88.9 85.8-91.3 73 11.1 8.7-14.2
35-44 519 424 82.7 78.7-86.0 95 17.3 14.0-21.3
45-54 646 500 77.2 73.0-80.8 146 22.8 19.2-27.0
55-64 735 542 71.5 67.2-75.4 193 28.5 24.6-32.8
65-74 694 524 73.0 68.5-77.0 170 27.0 23.0-31.5
75+ 501 344 66.7 61.6-71.5 157 33.3 28.5-38.4
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 390 185 52.5 46.3-58.6 205 47.5 41.4-53.7
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,025 730 76.5 73.5-79.3 295 23.5 20.7-26.5
Some Post-H.S. 1,118 882 81.5 78.8-84.0 236 18.5 16.0-21.2
College Graduate 1,269 1,160 92.9 91.2-94.3 109 7.1 5.7- 8.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 422 238 56.4 50.3-62.3 184 43.6 37.7-49.7
$15,000- 24,999 638 410 65.5 60.9-69.9 228 34.5 30.1-39.1
$25,000- 34,999 330 255 77.1 71.3-82.0 75 22.9 18.0-28.7
$35,000- 49,999 403 345 88.4 84.2-91.6 58 11.6 8.4-15.8
$50,000- 74,999 408 370 91.7 88.0-94.3 38 8.3 5.7-12.0
$75,000+ 720 681 94.4 92.2-96.1 39 5.6 3.9- 7.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,068 521 47.4 43.8-51.1 547 52.6 48.9-56.2
No 2,670 2,385 89.8 88.4-91.1 285 10.2 8.9-11.6
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 127 106 84.5 76.0-90.4 21 15.5 9.6-24.0
Non-Veteran 3,677 2,852 78.8 77.2-80.4 825 21.2 19.6-22.8
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,119 937 84.2 81.6-86.6 182 15.8 13.4-18.4
Regional City or Suburban 804 640 79.7 76.2-82.7 164 20.3 17.3-23.8
Rural 1,889 1,388 74.5 72.0-76.9 501 25.5 23.1-28.0

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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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