2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 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 any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,718 448 7.0 6.2- 7.8 4,270 93.0 92.2-93.8
Region 5 559 48 6.2 4.5- 8.6 511 93.8 91.4-95.5
GENDER
Male 241 15 3.8 2.1- 6.7 226 96.2 93.3-97.9
Female 318 33 8.5 5.6-12.5 285 91.5 87.5-94.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 343 37 7.8 5.3-11.3 306 92.2 88.7-94.7
Non-Hispanic Black 146 *** *** *** 138 96.5 92.6-98.4
Other 70 *** *** *** 67 96.8 90.3-99.0
AGE
18-44 209 *** *** *** 206 98.5 94.3-99.6
45-64 184 11 6.2 3.4-11.2 173 93.8 88.8-96.6
65+ 155 32 16.0 10.5-23.5 123 84.0 76.5-89.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 184 13 5.2 2.6-10.1 171 94.8 89.9-97.4
Some Post-H.S. 150 11 5.7 2.9-10.8 139 94.3 89.2-97.1
College Graduate 223 24 8.1 5.2-12.3 199 91.9 87.7-94.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 17 5.1 2.8- 9.1 212 94.9 90.9-97.2
$50,000+ 224 18 6.3 3.8-10.3 206 93.7 89.7-96.2
Don't know/Not Sure 103 13 8.7 4.4-16.4 90 91.3 83.6-95.6

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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