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2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,162 742 15.3 14.1-16.5 3,420 84.7 83.5-85.9
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 420 84 18.5 14.5-23.2 336 81.5 76.8-85.5
Region 3 357 69 16.9 12.7-22.0 288 83.1 78.0-87.3
Region 4 815 120 12.5 10.3-15.1 695 87.5 84.9-89.7
Region 5 601 89 12.8 10.1-16.2 512 87.2 83.8-89.9
Region 6 414 84 16.2 12.7-20.3 330 83.8 79.7-87.3
Region 7 668 88 13.7 10.9-17.0 580 86.3 83.0-89.1
Region 8 497 124 19.7 16.1-23.9 373 80.3 76.1-83.9
Region 9 & 10 390 84 19.5 15.4-24.3 306 80.5 75.7-84.6
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,367 301 18.9 16.6-21.4 1,066 81.1 78.6-83.4
Piedmont 2,250 335 13.0 11.6-14.7 1,915 87.0 85.3-88.4
Western NC 545 106 17.6 14.2-21.6 439 82.4 78.4-85.8
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 334 69 19.6 14.9-25.2 265 80.4 74.8-85.1
Northwest 637 122 17.2 14.0-20.9 515 82.8 79.1-86.0
Charlotte 629 85 11.2 8.8-14.0 544 88.8 86.0-91.2
Greensboro 454 73 13.6 10.4-17.7 381 86.4 82.3-89.6
Southern Regional 541 122 17.0 13.8-20.7 419 83.0 79.3-86.2
Southeast 233 52 19.2 14.0-25.8 181 80.8 74.2-86.0
Wake 748 91 11.4 9.1-14.2 657 88.6 85.8-90.9
Area L & Eastern 586 128 20.2 16.7-24.3 458 79.8 75.7-83.3
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 519 110 19.5 15.8-23.8 409 80.5 76.2-84.2
Region 2 489 89 16.5 13.0-20.7 400 83.5 79.3-87.0
Region 3 584 74 10.7 8.3-13.8 510 89.3 86.2-91.7
Region 4 558 86 13.0 10.2-16.5 472 87.0 83.5-89.8
Region 5 534 121 17.4 14.1-21.4 413 82.6 78.6-85.9
Region 6 493 47 10.9 8.1-14.6 446 89.1 85.4-91.9

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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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