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 skin cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,677 619 7.1 6.5- 7.8 6,058 92.9 92.2-93.5
Region 5 824 63 6.4 4.8- 8.4 761 93.6 91.6-95.2
GENDER
Male 354 26 6.5 4.0-10.3 328 93.5 89.7-96.0
Female 470 37 6.3 4.4- 8.8 433 93.7 91.2-95.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 494 60 10.1 7.5-13.4 434 89.9 86.6-92.5
Non-Hispanic Black 191 *** *** *** 191 100 . - .
Other 123 *** *** *** 122 98.8 91.8-99.8
AGE
18-44 314 *** *** *** 312 99.5 98.1-99.9
44-64 288 22 7.8 5.1-11.8 266 92.2 88.2-94.9
65+ 208 39 19.0 13.1-26.9 169 81.0 73.1-86.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 292 19 5.6 3.1- 9.8 273 94.4 90.2-96.9
Some College + 526 44 7.0 5.1- 9.5 482 93.0 90.5-94.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 349 19 5.5 3.1- 9.6 330 94.5 90.4-96.9
$50,000+ 300 28 6.7 4.5- 9.9 272 93.3 90.1-95.5

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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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