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| Total Respond.^ |
Within the past 6 months | 6 to 12 months ago | 1 to 2 years ago | 3 or more years ago or never | |||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 5,555 | 4,652 | 81.7 | 80.4-83.0 | 585 | 11.4 | 10.4-12.5 | 204 | 4.4 | 3.7- 5.1 | 114 | 2.5 | 2.0- 3.1 |
| Region 1 & 2 | 892 | 755 | 82.9 | 79.3-85.9 | 92 | 11.2 | 8.7-14.3 | 28 | 3.4 | 2.2- 5.2 | 17 | 2.6 | 1.5- 4.6 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 378 | 314 | 81.7 | 76.2-86.2 | 39 | 11.7 | 8.0-16.7 | 16 | 3.5 | 2.0- 6.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| Female | 514 | 441 | 83.9 | 78.9-87.9 | 53 | 10.7 | 7.6-15.0 | 12 | 3.3 | 1.7- 6.3 | *** | *** | *** |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 762 | 651 | 83.4 | 79.6-86.7 | 75 | 10.8 | 8.2-14.2 | 23 | 3.5 | 2.2- 5.5 | 13 | 2.3 | 1.1- 4.5 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 42 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 83 | *** | *** | *** | 11 | 12.0 | 5.8-23.4 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 207 | 150 | 74.2 | 66.4-80.7 | 33 | 15.3 | 10.3-22.2 | 17 | 6.4 | 3.7-10.9 | *** | *** | *** |
| 44-64 | 327 | 275 | 84.5 | 79.0-88.8 | 35 | 10.2 | 6.7-15.2 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 65+ | 348 | 321 | 91.2 | 86.0-94.6 | 23 | 7.4 | 4.4-12.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 331 | 281 | 82.9 | 77.0-87.5 | 29 | 10.8 | 7.0-16.2 | 13 | 3.7 | 1.9- 7.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| Some College + | 559 | 472 | 82.8 | 78.1-86.7 | 63 | 11.5 | 8.4-15.5 | 15 | 3.1 | 1.7- 5.5 | *** | *** | *** |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 448 | 376 | 83.9 | 79.1-87.7 | 44 | 9.4 | 6.5-13.4 | 19 | 4.6 | 2.7- 7.7 | *** | *** | *** |
| $50,000+ | 282 | 231 | 78.6 | 71.4-84.4 | 36 | 14.1 | 9.5-20.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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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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