2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Exercise

During the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises
such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,278 4,607 73.8 72.5-75.1 1,671 26.2 24.9-27.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 968 701 73.8 69.9-77.3 267 26.2 22.7-30.1
Region 3 582 425 72.3 67.5-76.6 157 27.7 23.4-32.5
Region 4 1,144 855 74.4 71.3-77.3 289 25.6 22.7-28.7
Region 5 763 578 74.9 71.1-78.4 185 25.1 21.6-28.9
Region 6 481 351 74.0 69.3-78.2 130 26.0 21.8-30.7
Region 7 846 632 74.3 70.7-77.5 214 25.7 22.5-29.3
Region 8 623 450 72.7 68.4-76.6 173 27.3 23.4-31.6
Region 9 & 10 871 615 72.4 68.3-76.1 256 27.6 23.9-31.7
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 2,043 1,451 72.0 69.6-74.4 592 28.0 25.6-30.4
Piedmont 3,153 2,381 75.0 73.2-76.7 772 25.0 23.3-26.8
Western NC 1,082 775 72.4 68.7-75.9 307 27.6 24.1-31.3
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 815 593 75.8 71.9-79.3 222 24.2 20.7-28.1
Northwest 937 670 70.6 66.9-74.0 267 29.4 26.0-33.1
Charlotte 959 730 75.6 72.2-78.6 229 24.4 21.4-27.8
Greensboro 566 413 73.2 68.7-77.4 153 26.8 22.6-31.3
Southern Regional 568 403 71.4 67.0-75.5 165 28.6 24.5-33.0
Southeast 353 268 76.4 70.7-81.2 85 23.6 18.8-29.3
Wake 962 745 76.3 73.1-79.3 217 23.7 20.7-26.9
Area L & Eastern 1,118 785 71.7 68.1-75.0 333 28.3 25.0-31.9

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See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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