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 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 8 664 57 6.2 4.6- 8.2 607 93.8 91.8-95.4
GENDER
Male 278 24 6.1 3.9- 9.4 254 93.9 90.6-96.1
Female 386 33 6.3 4.2- 9.2 353 93.7 90.8-95.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 437 57 9.6 7.2-12.7 380 90.4 87.3-92.8
Non-Hispanic Black 126 *** *** *** 126 100 . - .
Other 91 *** *** *** 91 100 . - .
AGE
18-44 218 *** *** *** 217 99.8 98.3- 100
44-64 243 13 5.9 3.3-10.3 230 94.1 89.7-96.7
65+ 193 43 20.9 15.2-28.1 150 79.1 71.9-84.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 281 20 5.9 3.7- 9.4 261 94.1 90.6-96.3
Some College + 381 37 6.5 4.5- 9.2 344 93.5 90.8-95.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 315 33 7.6 5.1-11.1 282 92.4 88.9-94.9
$50,000+ 208 15 5.2 3.0- 8.8 193 94.8 91.2-97.0

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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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