2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,905 725 16.1 14.7-17.5 4,180 83.9 82.5-85.3
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 818 107 15.6 12.1-19.8 711 84.4 80.2-87.9
Region 3 & 5 929 137 15.5 12.8-18.6 792 84.5 81.4-87.2
Region 4 688 84 13.6 10.8-17.0 604 86.4 83.0-89.2
Region 6 & 7 1,013 164 17.5 14.5-21.0 849 82.5 79.0-85.5
Region 8 713 120 18.0 14.6-22.0 593 82.0 78.0-85.4
Region 9 & 10 746 113 16.8 13.6-20.6 633 83.2 79.4-86.4
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,945 313 18.3 15.9-21.1 1,632 81.7 78.9-84.1
Piedmont 2,010 289 15.1 13.3-17.1 1,721 84.9 82.9-86.7
Western NC 952 123 14.9 11.8-18.6 829 85.1 81.4-88.2
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 732 95 15.2 11.5-19.7 637 84.8 80.3-88.5
Northwest 629 100 16.2 12.8-20.4 529 83.8 79.6-87.2
Charlotte 564 68 13.5 10.6-17.1 496 86.5 82.9-89.4
Greensboro 384 51 16.5 12.2-22.0 333 83.5 78.0-87.8
Southern Regional 699 117 16.8 13.3-21.0 582 83.2 79.0-86.7
Southeast 304 49 15.4 11.2-20.9 255 84.6 79.1-88.8
Wake 635 101 17.7 14.1-22.0 534 82.3 78.0-85.9
Area L & Eastern 960 144 17.1 13.8-20.9 816 82.9 79.1-86.2

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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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