2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

A mammogram is an x-ray of each breast to look for breast cancer. Have you ever had a mammogram?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,413 2,571 66.6 64.5-68.7 842 33.4 31.3-35.5
Region 5 349 239 60.7 54.4-66.7 110 39.3 33.3-45.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 213 161 66.8 58.5-74.2 52 33.2 25.8-41.5
Non-Hispanic Black 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 132 31 22.9 15.9-31.7 101 77.1 68.3-84.1
45-64 116 108 93.8 86.4-97.3 *** *** ***
65+ 96 96 100 . - . *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some College + 246 167 59.8 52.2-66.9 79 40.2 33.1-47.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 152 96 55.0 45.5-64.1 56 45.0 35.9-54.5
$50,000+ 131 93 65.0 55.2-73.6 38 35.0 26.4-44.8

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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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