2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Regions 1 & 2 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 asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,522 803 12.4 11.5-13.5 5,719 87.6 86.5-88.5
Regions 1 & 2 1,064 127 11.1 8.8-13.9 937 88.9 86.1-91.2
GENDER
Male 466 49 8.8 6.2-12.3 417 91.2 87.7-93.8
Female 598 78 13.3 9.8-17.7 520 86.7 82.3-90.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 917 106 10.0 7.8-12.7 811 90.0 87.3-92.2
Non-Hispanic Black 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 98 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 276 37 11.4 7.4-17.3 239 88.6 82.7-92.6
45-64 376 50 13.1 9.4-18.0 326 86.9 82.0-90.6
65+ 395 40 9.0 6.2-12.9 355 91.0 87.1-93.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 435 62 11.7 8.4-16.1 373 88.3 83.9-91.6
Some College + 630 65 10.5 7.7-14.3 565 89.5 85.7-92.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 539 76 13.6 10.3-17.9 463 86.4 82.1-89.7
$50,000+ 326 27 6.8 4.3-10.6 299 93.2 89.4-95.7

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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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