2016 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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
Region 8 589 52 7.6 5.7-10.2 537 92.4 89.8-94.3
GENDER
Male 275 28 9.0 6.0-13.2 247 91.0 86.8-94.0
Female 314 24 6.3 4.0- 9.7 290 93.7 90.3-96.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 365 49 11.2 8.3-15.0 316 88.8 85.0-91.7
Non-Hispanic Black 120 *** *** *** 120 100 . - .
Other 98 *** *** *** 96 99.1 95.4-99.8
AGE
18-44 192 *** *** *** 191 99.5 96.2-99.9
45-64 214 15 9.4 5.5-15.5 199 90.6 84.5-94.5
65+ 180 36 20.8 15.0-28.1 144 79.2 71.9-85.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 269 23 8.1 5.3-12.2 246 91.9 87.8-94.7
Some College + 319 29 7.2 4.7-10.7 290 92.8 89.3-95.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 305 25 7.4 4.8-11.1 280 92.6 88.9-95.2
$50,000+ 166 19 9.1 5.6-14.6 147 90.9 85.4-94.4

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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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