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 4,760 906 15.4 14.2-16.7 3,854 84.6 83.3-85.8
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 791 174 20.2 16.5-24.4 617 79.8 75.6-83.5
Region 3 & 5 896 144 15.3 12.7-18.4 752 84.7 81.6-87.3
Region 4 670 91 12.3 9.7-15.4 579 87.7 84.6-90.3
Region 6 & 7 984 173 13.7 11.5-16.3 811 86.3 83.7-88.5
Region 8 705 175 20.1 16.7-23.9 530 79.9 76.1-83.3
Region 9 & 10 716 149 18.9 15.7-22.5 567 81.1 77.5-84.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,896 434 19.0 16.9-21.2 1,462 81.0 78.8-83.1
Piedmont 1,942 270 12.7 11.1-14.5 1,672 87.3 85.5-88.9
Western NC 924 202 20.5 17.1-24.4 722 79.5 75.6-82.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 707 153 19.1 15.5-23.4 554 80.9 76.6-84.5
Northwest 614 125 18.7 15.2-22.9 489 81.3 77.1-84.8
Charlotte 549 73 12.0 9.3-15.4 476 88.0 84.6-90.7
Greensboro 366 52 15.9 11.8-21.1 314 84.1 78.9-88.2
Southern Regional 685 177 19.7 16.2-23.8 508 80.3 76.2-83.8
Southeast 298 69 20.9 16.2-26.5 229 79.1 73.5-83.8
Wake 614 63 8.8 6.7-11.6 551 91.2 88.4-93.3
Area L & Eastern 929 194 18.6 15.8-21.9 735 81.4 78.1-84.2

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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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