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2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,687 582 7.2 6.6- 8.0 6,105 92.8 92.0-93.4
Region 5 824 72 8.2 6.3-10.5 752 91.8 89.5-93.7
GENDER
Male 355 27 6.1 4.1- 9.1 328 93.9 90.9-95.9
Female 469 45 10.0 7.2-13.9 424 90.0 86.1-92.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 495 44 8.8 6.3-12.3 451 91.2 87.7-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 191 20 8.9 5.7-13.9 171 91.1 86.1-94.3
Other 123 *** *** *** 117 96.9 92.1-98.8
AGE
18-44 313 *** *** *** 303 96.9 93.8-98.5
44-64 288 24 9.9 6.3-15.1 264 90.1 84.9-93.7
65+ 210 37 17.7 12.7-24.2 173 82.3 75.8-87.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 292 29 8.8 5.8-13.2 263 91.2 86.8-94.2
Some College + 527 43 7.8 5.6-10.7 484 92.2 89.3-94.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 350 26 6.8 4.4-10.4 324 93.2 89.6-95.6
$50,000+ 299 22 7.3 4.5-11.7 277 92.7 88.3-95.5

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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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