2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Fruits and Vegetables

Consumed fruits or vegetables or beans five or more times per day

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,357 865 13.0 12.0-14.0 5,492 87.0 86.0-88.0
Region 8 631 73 11.5 8.8-14.9 558 88.5 85.1-91.2
GENDER
Male 260 32 12.4 8.3-18.0 228 87.6 82.0-91.7
Female 371 41 10.7 7.5-15.1 330 89.3 84.9-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 416 49 11.7 8.5-15.9 367 88.3 84.1-91.5
Non-Hispanic Black 117 *** *** *** 107 91.2 82.6-95.8
Other 88 13 14.0 7.1-25.5 75 86.0 74.5-92.9
AGE
18-44 198 21 11.6 7.3-18.0 177 88.4 82.0-92.7
44-64 237 31 13.7 9.4-19.5 206 86.3 80.5-90.6
65+ 186 20 8.4 5.2-13.4 166 91.6 86.6-94.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 22 9.4 5.6-15.2 240 90.6 84.8-94.4
Some College + 367 50 13.2 9.7-17.7 317 86.8 82.3-90.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 302 23 7.7 4.8-12.1 279 92.3 87.9-95.2
$50,000+ 201 33 15.9 10.7-23.0 168 84.1 77.0-89.3

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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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