2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 666 58 7.5 5.6-10.0 608 92.5 90.0-94.4
GENDER
Male 279 21 6.4 3.9-10.2 258 93.6 89.8-96.1
Female 387 37 8.6 5.9-12.4 350 91.4 87.6-94.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 441 44 7.8 5.5-10.9 397 92.2 89.1-94.5
Non-Hispanic Black 124 *** *** *** 115 91.4 82.3-96.0
Other 91 *** *** *** 86 94.1 86.2-97.6
AGE
18-44 217 *** *** *** 214 99.3 97.6-99.8
44-64 244 23 10.3 6.5-16.0 221 89.7 84.0-93.5
65+ 194 32 19.5 13.3-27.6 162 80.5 72.4-86.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 282 26 9.1 5.9-13.7 256 90.9 86.3-94.1
Some College + 382 32 6.2 4.2- 9.1 350 93.8 90.9-95.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 315 25 7.7 4.9-11.8 290 92.3 88.2-95.1
$50,000+ 208 17 6.8 3.8-11.7 191 93.2 88.3-96.2

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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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