2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,752 411 7.4 6.5- 8.4 4,341 92.6 91.6-93.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 790 86 11.5 8.6-15.1 704 88.5 84.9-91.4
Region 3 & 5 894 58 6.4 4.8- 8.5 836 93.6 91.5-95.2
Region 4 666 44 6.1 4.2- 8.7 622 93.9 91.3-95.8
Region 6 & 7 984 79 6.4 4.8- 8.3 905 93.6 91.7-95.2
Region 8 704 83 10.6 8.1-13.8 621 89.4 86.2-91.9
Region 9 & 10 716 61 8.2 6.0-11.0 655 91.8 89.0-94.0
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,897 190 9.0 7.5-10.8 1,707 91.0 89.2-92.5
Piedmont 1,934 126 5.8 4.7- 7.2 1,808 94.2 92.8-95.3
Western NC 923 95 11.0 8.5-14.0 828 89.0 86.0-91.5
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 706 77 12.0 8.8-16.1 629 88.0 83.9-91.2
Northwest 611 52 8.1 5.8-11.2 559 91.9 88.8-94.2
Charlotte 546 31 5.5 3.6- 8.3 515 94.5 91.7-96.4
Greensboro 365 24 6.1 4.0- 9.3 341 93.9 90.7-96.0
Southern Regional 684 78 8.5 6.2-11.4 606 91.5 88.6-93.8
Southeast 298 31 11.0 7.5-15.9 267 89.0 84.1-92.5
Wake 614 36 4.8 3.3- 7.0 578 95.2 93.0-96.7
Area L & Eastern 930 82 9.2 6.9-12.1 848 90.8 87.9-93.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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