2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 Demographics

Respiratory Health

During the past 3 months, did you cough up phlegm [FLEM] or mucus on most days?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,763 633 16.1 14.6-17.7 3,130 83.9 82.3-85.4
Region 9 & 10 608 106 17.3 13.6-21.8 502 82.7 78.2-86.4
GENDER
Male 258 47 20.6 14.7-28.1 211 79.4 71.9-85.3
Female 350 59 14.5 10.4-19.9 291 85.5 80.1-89.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 378 66 17.4 12.8-23.1 312 82.6 76.9-87.2
Non-Hispanic Black 177 37 20.5 13.6-29.6 140 79.5 70.4-86.4
Other 53 *** *** *** 50 96.6 89.5-99.0
AGE
18-44 165 28 19.4 12.8-28.3 137 80.6 71.7-87.2
45-64 223 37 14.9 10.2-21.4 186 85.1 78.6-89.8
65+ 211 40 17.9 12.0-25.8 171 82.1 74.2-88.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 247 53 22.7 16.2-30.7 194 77.3 69.3-83.8
Some Post-H.S. 176 33 15.9 10.5-23.3 143 84.1 76.7-89.5
College Graduate 184 20 8.9 5.2-14.7 164 91.1 85.3-94.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 309 72 25.1 18.9-32.6 237 74.9 67.4-81.1
$50,000+ 188 17 9.7 5.4-17.0 171 90.3 83.0-94.6
Don't know/Not Sure 111 17 11.4 6.3-19.7 94 88.6 80.3-93.7

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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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