2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Health Status

General Health Indicator for Healthy North Carolina 2020

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  Total
Respond.^
Excellent/Vg/Good Fair/Poor
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,712 3,722 80.9 79.4-82.3 990 19.1 17.7-20.6
Region 8 535 406 79.5 75.3-83.1 129 20.5 16.9-24.7
GENDER
Male 256 195 79.5 73.0-84.7 61 20.5 15.3-27.0
Female 279 211 79.4 73.7-84.2 68 20.6 15.8-26.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 363 287 81.1 76.2-85.2 76 18.9 14.8-23.8
Non-Hispanic Black 70 52 81.5 69.0-89.7 *** *** ***
Other 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 183 159 88.5 82.3-92.7 24 11.5 7.3-17.7
45-64 165 119 75.2 67.4-81.6 46 24.8 18.4-32.6
65+ 178 120 65.5 56.1-73.9 58 34.5 26.1-43.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 142 73.2 65.9-79.5 70 26.8 20.5-34.1
Some Post-H.S. 167 129 80.7 73.2-86.5 38 19.3 13.5-26.8
College Graduate 155 134 90.3 84.9-94.0 21 9.7 6.0-15.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 270 181 70.9 64.2-76.7 89 29.1 23.3-35.8
$50,000+ 161 146 92.6 86.9-95.9 15 7.4 4.1-13.1
Don't know/Not Sure 92 68 78.1 66.6-86.4 24 21.9 13.6-33.4

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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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