2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 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 6 301 219 63.4 56.6-69.7 82 36.6 30.3-43.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 158 122 69.1 59.6-77.3 36 30.9 22.7-40.4
Non-Hispanic Black 98 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 105 30 27.3 18.8-37.8 75 72.7 62.2-81.2
45-64 100 96 95.7 89.0-98.4 *** *** ***
65+ 92 89 96.5 86.9-99.1 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 118 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some College + 182 132 63.7 54.8-71.7 50 36.3 28.3-45.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 158 115 63.4 53.8-72.1 43 36.6 27.9-46.2
$50,000+ 78 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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