2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 & 5 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 4,898 446 7.2 6.3- 8.1 4,452 92.8 91.9-93.7
Region 3 & 5 925 75 7.4 5.6- 9.6 850 92.6 90.4-94.4
GENDER
Male 393 37 7.7 5.2-11.1 356 92.3 88.9-94.8
Female 532 38 7.1 4.9-10.3 494 92.9 89.7-95.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 626 71 10.1 7.7-13.1 555 89.9 86.9-92.3
Non-Hispanic Black 178 *** *** *** 177 99.5 96.7-99.9
Other 121 *** *** *** 118 98.5 94.4-99.6
AGE
18-44 332 *** *** *** 327 98.8 97.0-99.5
45-64 332 26 8.0 5.1-12.3 306 92.0 87.7-94.9
65+ 253 44 19.6 14.0-26.7 209 80.4 73.3-86.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 307 27 8.7 5.6-13.2 280 91.3 86.8-94.4
Some College + 614 48 6.6 4.7- 9.1 566 93.4 90.9-95.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 396 25 5.8 3.7- 9.2 371 94.2 90.8-96.3
$50,000+ 373 35 8.2 5.5-12.1 338 91.8 87.9-94.5

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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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