2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Secondhand Smoke

Workplace Secondhand Smoke Exposure Indicator for Healthy North Carolina 2020*

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  Total
Respond.^
1-7 days No days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,821 157 9.2 7.5-11.2 1,664 90.8 88.8-92.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 285 32 12.5 7.4-20.6 253 87.5 79.4-92.6
Region 3 & 5 371 25 7.9 5.0-12.2 346 92.1 87.8-95.0
Region 4 214 17 9.9 6.0-15.8 197 90.1 84.2-94.0
Region 6 & 7 413 32 7.6 4.8-11.8 381 92.4 88.2-95.2
Region 8 247 22 9.5 5.7-15.3 225 90.5 84.7-94.3
Region 9 & 10 292 29 12.0 7.9-18.0 263 88.0 82.0-92.1
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 724 73 10.6 8.0-13.8 651 89.4 86.2-92.0
Piedmont 760 48 8.0 5.8-11.0 712 92.0 89.0-94.2
Western NC 338 36 11.4 7.1-18.0 302 88.6 82.0-92.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 255 28 10.9 5.8-19.4 227 89.1 80.6-94.2
Northwest 244 22 11.0 6.9-17.2 222 89.0 82.8-93.1
Charlotte 163 16 12.0 7.2-19.2 147 88.0 80.8-92.8
Greensboro 159 *** *** *** 151 94.0 87.7-97.2
Southern Regional 246 26 11.5 7.1-18.2 220 88.5 81.8-92.9
Southeast 114 *** *** *** 106 91.6 82.1-96.3
Wake 280 11 5.2 2.5-10.5 269 94.8 89.5-97.5
Area L & Eastern 361 38 11.2 7.6-16.1 323 88.8 83.9-92.4

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*Asked of respondents that were employed or self-employed.

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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