2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Oral Health

In the past year, have you had a dentist or dental hygienist check for oral cancer by pulling on your tongue with gauze wrapped around it,
feeling under the tongue and inside the cheeks, and checking the back of your throat?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,632 1,681 34.9 33.2-36.7 2,951 65.1 63.3-66.8
Region 4 691 255 36.7 32.5-41.1 436 63.3 58.9-67.5
GENDER
Male 301 105 34.7 28.7-41.3 196 65.3 58.7-71.3
Female 390 150 38.4 32.8-44.3 240 61.6 55.7-67.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 456 198 41.7 36.6-46.9 258 58.3 53.1-63.4
Non-Hispanic Black 126 39 36.2 26.6-46.9 87 63.8 53.1-73.4
Other 109 18 15.6 9.3-25.2 91 84.4 74.8-90.7
AGE
18-44 230 64 29.2 22.8-36.5 166 70.8 63.5-77.2
45-64 244 101 42.6 35.7-49.8 143 57.4 50.2-64.3
65+ 200 82 42.7 34.6-51.2 118 57.3 48.8-65.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 251 46 21.1 15.6-27.8 205 78.9 72.2-84.4
Some Post-H.S. 184 68 42.0 34.0-50.4 116 58.0 49.6-66.0
College Graduate 254 140 54.8 48.0-61.5 114 45.2 38.5-52.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 259 59 25.8 19.7-33.1 200 74.2 66.9-80.3
$50,000+ 295 160 52.9 46.3-59.4 135 47.1 40.6-53.7
Don't know/Not Sure 137 36 24.4 17.1-33.5 101 75.6 66.5-82.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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