2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,521 530 6.2 5.6- 6.9 5,991 93.8 93.1-94.4
Region 5 699 45 4.7 3.3- 6.5 654 95.3 93.5-96.7
GENDER
Male 340 19 3.2 2.0- 5.3 321 96.8 94.7-98.0
Female 359 26 6.0 3.8- 9.2 333 94.0 90.8-96.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 437 36 6.3 4.3- 9.1 401 93.7 90.9-95.7
Non-Hispanic Black 161 *** *** *** 154 97.0 93.3-98.7
Other 98 *** *** *** 97 99.8 98.6- 100
AGE
18-44 263 *** *** *** 261 99.6 98.5-99.9
45-64 231 13 5.0 2.6- 9.5 218 95.0 90.5-97.4
65+ 192 29 14.1 9.6-20.4 163 85.9 79.6-90.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 222 14 5.6 3.2- 9.8 208 94.4 90.2-96.8
Some College + 477 31 4.1 2.7- 6.2 446 95.9 93.8-97.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 302 20 4.9 3.0- 8.0 282 95.1 92.0-97.0
$50,000+ 275 16 3.6 2.1- 6.1 259 96.4 93.9-97.9

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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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