2016 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Preconception Health & Family Planning

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker ever talked with you about any of the following topics during a routine health care visit:
DO NOT include visits while pregnant, also called prenatal care visits.
Your plans for having children?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 872 413 45.9 41.9-49.9 459 54.1 50.1-58.1
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Regions 1 & 2 133 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 144 66 44.7 35.8-53.9 78 55.3 46.1-64.2
Region 5 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 77 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 131 61 51.2 41.4-60.8 70 48.8 39.2-58.6
Region 8 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 10 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 284 139 51.2 44.0-58.3 145 48.8 41.7-56.0
Piedmont 437 204 44.5 39.3-49.9 233 55.5 50.1-60.7
Western NC 152 70 41.1 31.2-51.9 82 58.9 48.1-68.8
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 120 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 124 53 42.5 32.8-52.9 71 57.5 47.1-67.2
Charlotte 117 53 43.4 33.9-53.4 64 56.6 46.6-66.1
Greensboro 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 91 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 31 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 156 74 48.9 39.8-58.1 82 51.1 41.9-60.2
Area L & Eastern 163 81 52.4 42.3-62.4 82 47.6 37.6-57.7

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*Asked of female respondents aged 18-44.

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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