2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days-Non-Hispanic White

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
-Non-Hispanic White 4,397 2,830 64.6 62.9-66.4 410 9.7 8.6-10.8 385 9.1 8.1-10.3 365 7.9 7.0- 8.9 407 8.6 7.6- 9.7
GENDER
Male 1,906 1,329 70.0 67.4-72.4 144 7.7 6.4- 9.2 159 8.8 7.3-10.5 122 5.8 4.7- 7.1 152 7.8 6.4- 9.5
Female 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
AGE
18-34 692 482 70.1 66.0-74.0 82 11.1 8.6-14.2 66 9.0 6.9-11.7 48 7.3 5.3-10.0 14 2.5 1.4- 4.4
35-44 507 334 66.9 62.0-71.5 75 13.8 10.9-17.4 43 10.0 7.0-14.1 30 4.9 3.2- 7.3 25 4.4 2.7- 7.1
45-54 744 461 62.2 58.0-66.2 73 8.9 6.8-11.6 68 9.7 7.4-12.5 73 9.3 7.2-11.8 69 10.0 7.5-13.1
55-64 922 551 58.6 54.7-62.3 91 10.1 8.0-12.7 83 9.0 6.9-11.6 80 9.4 7.3-11.9 117 12.9 10.5-15.8
65-74 892 564 61.9 57.9-65.8 58 7.0 5.3- 9.2 81 8.8 6.8-11.2 83 8.5 6.7-10.8 106 13.8 11.0-17.3
75+ 598 403 64.3 59.4-68.9 28 4.3 2.8- 6.4 42 8.5 6.0-12.0 51 9.0 6.6-12.1 74 13.9 10.5-18.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 300 152 49.6 42.5-56.7 *** *** *** 28 12.3 8.1-18.2 39 11.0 7.3-16.1 67 21.5 16.3-27.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,106 691 65.5 62.1-68.7 77 7.4 5.8- 9.5 92 8.6 6.8-10.8 114 9.2 7.5-11.3 132 9.2 7.6-11.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,286 783 62.3 59.1-65.4 131 11.0 9.1-13.3 124 9.7 8.0-11.9 119 8.6 7.1-10.5 129 8.3 6.8-10.1
College Graduate 1,689 1,190 72.2 69.7-74.5 188 11.6 10.0-13.5 141 7.8 6.5- 9.3 93 4.8 3.8- 6.1 77 3.6 2.8- 4.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 313 131 43.2 36.7-50.0 17 4.7 2.8- 7.6 29 10.7 7.0-16.0 55 16.8 12.5-22.1 81 24.7 19.3-31.0
$15,000- 24,999 564 312 54.1 48.9-59.3 42 7.1 4.9-10.2 50 9.5 6.9-12.9 66 13.4 9.9-17.9 94 15.9 12.5-20.1
$25,000- 34,999 353 206 56.5 49.8-62.9 36 9.5 6.4-13.8 43 14.4 10.0-20.5 32 7.6 5.1-11.3 36 12.0 8.0-17.6
$35,000- 49,999 519 344 68.2 63.1-73.0 54 10.2 7.2-14.1 30 6.5 4.1-10.0 56 9.4 6.9-12.7 35 5.7 3.8- 8.6
$50,000- 74,999 614 442 72.6 67.9-76.7 52 8.9 6.5-11.9 58 10.1 7.3-14.0 35 4.7 3.2- 6.8 27 3.8 2.4- 6.0
$75,000+ 1,167 830 71.3 68.2-74.2 145 13.0 10.9-15.4 100 7.9 6.3- 9.8 50 4.7 3.4- 6.3 42 3.2 2.2- 4.5
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,200 419 33.7 30.5-37.0 86 7.2 5.6- 9.1 131 12.2 9.9-14.9 237 19.6 17.1-22.4 327 27.4 24.2-30.7
No 3,118 2,361 75.1 73.2-77.0 316 10.6 9.3-12.0 249 8.2 7.1- 9.5 121 3.9 3.1- 4.9 71 2.2 1.6- 2.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 658 440 67.2 62.8-71.4 41 7.0 5.0- 9.8 58 8.2 6.0-11.1 54 7.8 5.8-10.5 65 9.7 7.2-13.0
Non-Veteran 3,733 2,386 64.2 62.2-66.1 369 10.1 9.0-11.4 327 9.3 8.2-10.6 310 7.9 7.0- 9.1 341 8.4 7.4- 9.6
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,103 746 68.8 65.5-71.8 139 11.8 9.8-14.1 87 7.8 6.1- 9.8 59 5.2 3.9- 7.0 72 6.4 4.9- 8.4
Regional City or Suburban 1,041 661 64.0 60.5-67.4 94 9.2 7.3-11.5 96 9.6 7.7-11.9 85 7.3 5.7- 9.2 105 9.9 7.9-12.4
Rural 2,253 1,423 62.4 59.7-65.0 177 8.6 7.2-10.4 202 9.8 8.2-11.6 221 10.0 8.5-11.7 230 9.3 7.8-10.9

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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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