2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

Exercise

Adults that participated in 300 minutes (or vigorous equivalent minutes)
of physical activity per week (CDC calculated variable)

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  Total
Respond.^
300+ minutes 0-299 minutes Don’t know/Not Sure/Refused/Missing
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,287 1,179 26.8 25.3-28.4 2,700 63.5 61.7-65.1 408 9.8 8.8-10.9
Medicaid Region 3 607 178 29.1 25.1-33.3 368 61.1 56.6-65.4 61 9.8 7.4-12.9
GENDER
Male 300 97 32.8 27.1-39.1 168 55.4 49.0-61.6 35 11.8 8.2-16.5
Female 307 81 25.6 20.4-31.5 200 66.4 60.1-72.2 26 8.0 5.1-12.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 362 119 31.3 26.2-36.8 209 59.7 53.9-65.2 34 9.1 6.2-13.1
Non-Hispanic Black 129 34 26.0 18.5-35.1 74 58.9 49.3-67.9 21 15.1 9.6-22.9
Other 116 25 23.6 15.6-34.0 85 71.6 61.0-80.2 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 229 59 27.0 21.0-33.9 153 65.5 58.4-72.1 17 7.5 4.5-12.2
45-64 211 71 33.4 26.8-40.7 125 59.5 52.0-66.6 15 7.1 4.1-11.9
65+ 152 48 30.5 23.0-39.3 88 58.6 49.3-67.3 16 10.9 5.8-19.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 182 50 29.0 22.0-37.2 113 59.9 51.5-67.8 19 11.1 6.7-17.7
Some Post-H.S. 173 52 29.2 22.4-37.0 104 61.7 53.5-69.2 17 9.2 5.5-14.9
College Graduate 252 76 29.1 23.4-35.5 151 61.8 55.0-68.1 25 9.2 6.0-13.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 55 24.4 18.5-31.5 145 69.2 61.7-75.7 13 6.4 3.4-11.7
$50,000+ 256 84 32.1 26.1-38.7 156 62.8 56.1-69.1 16 5.1 3.0- 8.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 39 32.4 23.7-42.5 67 49.0 39.0-59.0 21 18.6 11.7-28.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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