2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 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
Region 6 562 76 15.3 12.0-19.4 486 84.7 80.6-88.0
GENDER
Male 250 19 10.5 6.3-17.0 231 89.5 83.0-93.7
Female 312 57 19.9 15.2-25.7 255 80.1 74.3-84.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 314 37 15.1 10.5-21.2 277 84.9 78.8-89.5
Non-Hispanic Black 163 25 15.0 9.8-22.2 138 85.0 77.8-90.2
Other 78 12 15.4 8.5-26.3 66 84.6 73.7-91.5
AGE
18-44 216 32 16.8 11.6-23.8 184 83.2 76.2-88.4
45-64 181 29 15.6 10.6-22.2 152 84.4 77.8-89.4
65+ 159 14 11.5 6.5-19.3 145 88.5 80.7-93.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 235 33 15.2 10.2-22.0 202 84.8 78.0-89.8
Some College + 325 43 15.5 11.4-20.7 282 84.5 79.3-88.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 293 40 16.1 11.3-22.3 253 83.9 77.7-88.7
$50,000+ 159 18 12.2 7.6-19.1 141 87.8 80.9-92.4

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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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