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 skin cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,521 630 7.8 7.1- 8.6 5,891 92.2 91.4-92.9
Regions 1 & 2 1,065 127 9.7 7.8-12.1 938 90.3 87.9-92.2
GENDER
Male 464 65 11.0 8.0-15.0 399 89.0 85.0-92.0
Female 601 62 8.5 6.3-11.6 539 91.5 88.4-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 918 121 10.3 8.2-12.8 797 89.7 87.2-91.8
Non-Hispanic Black 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 98 *** *** *** 97 99.1 94.1-99.9
AGE
18-44 276 *** *** *** 273 99.5 98.1-99.9
45-64 376 34 9.8 6.5-14.5 342 90.2 85.5-93.5
65+ 396 89 21.7 17.1-27.2 307 78.3 72.8-82.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 436 41 8.4 5.7-12.1 395 91.6 87.9-94.3
Some College + 630 86 10.9 8.3-14.2 544 89.1 85.8-91.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 540 54 9.2 6.5-12.9 486 90.8 87.1-93.5
$50,000+ 326 45 10.3 7.0-14.9 281 89.7 85.1-93.0

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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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