2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^		 None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,824 3,129 66.9 65.2-68.6 409 8.1 7.2- 9.1 433 9.3 8.2-10.4 389 7.4 6.5- 8.4 464 8.3 7.4- 9.4
Region 8 702 445 63.6 59.0-67.9 51 7.6 5.5-10.5 54 8.4 6.2-11.3 70 10.7 8.2-13.9 82 9.6 7.3-12.6
GENDER
Male 310 204 65.7 59.2-71.8 22 7.8 4.9-12.2 24 8.2 5.3-12.3 28 10.2 6.7-15.2 32 8.1 5.3-12.2
Female 392 241 61.5 55.1-67.5 29 7.5 4.7-11.7 30 8.6 5.6-13.0 42 11.3 7.9-15.8 50 11.1 7.6-15.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 396 249 64.5 58.8-69.8 24 5.9 3.8- 9.0 36 9.2 6.4-13.1 37 10.0 7.0-14.1 50 10.4 7.4-14.3
Non-Hispanic Black 134 *** *** *** 12 10.8 5.2-20.8 11 7.7 3.9-14.8 17 15.0 8.9-24.2 11 10.2 5.0-19.7
Other 172 113 68.4 58.2-77.0 15 11.9 6.3-21.4 *** *** *** 16 8.7 4.5-16.1 21 5.6 3.4- 9.1
AGE
18-44 230 164 72.1 65.1-78.2 21 9.1 5.8-14.2 16 7.3 4.3-12.1 18 8.0 4.8-12.9 11 3.5 1.6- 7.3
45-64 248 146 57.6 49.7-65.1 17 6.2 3.5-10.7 18 7.2 4.2-12.0 35 15.2 10.2-21.9 32 13.9 8.9-20.9
65+ 221 132 53.6 45.1-61.9 13 6.6 3.0-13.9 20 12.6 7.7-19.9 17 10.4 6.2-16.9 39 16.8 11.5-23.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 299 180 64.5 57.5-70.9 23 7.1 4.2-11.7 25 7.5 4.7-11.6 28 8.8 5.7-13.5 43 12.1 8.2-17.5
Some College + 402 264 62.8 56.7-68.5 28 8.1 5.3-12.2 29 9.2 6.2-13.6 42 12.4 8.8-17.1 39 7.5 5.0-11.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 366 224 61.9 55.4-68.0 26 7.6 4.7-11.9 28 8.7 5.7-13.1 39 11.2 7.7-16.1 49 10.6 7.4-15.0
$50,000+ 202 140 65.9 57.6-73.3 15 7.6 4.2-13.3 15 8.4 4.8-14.2 19 11.4 7.0-17.8 13 6.8 3.4-12.9

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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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