2016 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Adult Human Papillomavirus

A vaccine to prevent the human papillomavirus or HPV infection is available and is called the cervical cancer or genital warts vaccine, HPV shot, if female “GARDASIL or CERVARIX” if male “GARDASIL”.
Have you EVER had an HPV vaccination?* **

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,852 232 14.4 12.5-16.6 1,620 85.6 83.4-87.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Regions 1 & 2 264 24 10.8 6.5-17.4 240 89.2 82.6-93.5
Region 3 177 28 15.8 10.6-22.8 149 84.2 77.2-89.4
Region 4 304 32 12.3 8.5-17.5 272 87.7 82.5-91.5
Region 5 224 41 18.2 13.2-24.5 183 81.8 75.5-86.8
Region 6 155 15 10.6 6.2-17.7 140 89.4 82.3-93.8
Region 7 266 36 15.9 11.2-22.2 230 84.1 77.8-88.8
Region 8 161 20 15.7 10.0-23.6 141 84.3 76.4-90.0
Region 9 130 17 15.6 9.0-25.6 113 84.4 74.4-91.0
Region 10 172 19 13.9 8.8-21.3 153 86.1 78.7-91.2
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 642 76 14.8 11.5-18.9 566 85.2 81.1-88.5
Piedmont 893 123 14.7 12.2-17.6 770 85.3 82.4-87.8
Western NC 318 33 12.4 8.2-18.2 285 87.6 81.8-91.8
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 239 22 11.3 6.6-18.7 217 88.7 81.3-93.4
Northwest 259 36 13.5 9.5-18.8 223 86.5 81.2-90.5
Charlotte 250 26 12.7 8.5-18.7 224 87.3 81.3-91.5
Greensboro 156 24 13.9 9.2-20.5 132 86.1 79.5-90.8
Southern Regional 183 19 12.0 7.4-18.8 164 88.0 81.2-92.6
Southeast 88 *** *** *** 78 86.6 76.2-92.9
Wake 308 49 17.9 13.3-23.6 259 82.1 76.4-86.7
Area L & Eastern 370 46 16.8 12.0-23.1 324 83.2 76.9-88.0

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*Asked of all respondents aged 18 through 49.
**Three people answered that the doctor refused when asked.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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