2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had asthma?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,823 721 12.3 11.3-13.4 5,102 87.7 86.6-88.7
Region 5 696 99 14.4 11.6-17.8 597 85.6 82.2-88.4
GENDER
Male 312 43 14.3 10.2-19.7 269 85.7 80.3-89.8
Female 384 56 14.5 10.9-19.2 328 85.5 80.8-89.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 422 53 12.9 9.6-17.3 369 87.1 82.7-90.4
Non-Hispanic Black 172 31 20.0 13.6-28.4 141 80.0 71.6-86.4
Other 102 15 12.5 7.1-21.0 87 87.5 79.0-92.9
AGE
18-44 260 50 19.4 14.4-25.5 210 80.6 74.5-85.6
45-64 234 29 12.0 8.0-17.5 205 88.0 82.5-92.0
65+ 187 18 7.9 4.6-13.3 169 92.1 86.7-95.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 191 25 16.0 10.5-23.7 166 84.0 76.3-89.5
Some Post-H.S. 182 29 14.8 9.9-21.5 153 85.2 78.5-90.1
College Graduate 323 45 12.6 9.3-16.9 278 87.4 83.1-90.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 258 43 17.6 12.7-23.9 215 82.4 76.1-87.3
$50,000+ 292 36 12.8 8.7-18.3 256 87.2 81.7-91.3
Don't know/Not Sure 134 18 11.5 6.8-18.9 116 88.5 81.1-93.2

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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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