2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 718 61 6.9 5.2- 9.2 657 93.1 90.8-94.8
GENDER
Male 313 28 6.2 4.1- 9.3 285 93.8 90.7-95.9
Female 405 33 7.6 5.1-11.4 372 92.4 88.6-94.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 406 55 9.9 7.3-13.2 351 90.1 86.8-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 138 *** *** *** 138 100 . - .
Other 174 *** *** *** 168 97.9 94.1-99.2
AGE
18-44 231 *** *** *** 227 98.5 95.8-99.5
45-64 253 13 4.8 2.5- 9.2 240 95.2 90.8-97.5
65+ 231 44 21.3 15.3-28.7 187 78.7 71.3-84.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 310 20 5.1 2.9- 8.7 290 94.9 91.3-97.1
Some College + 407 41 8.6 6.1-11.9 366 91.4 88.1-93.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 374 25 6.0 3.7- 9.5 349 94.0 90.5-96.3
$50,000+ 203 21 8.4 5.3-12.9 182 91.6 87.1-94.7

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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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