2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Exercise

What type of physical activity or exercise did you spend the most time doing during the past month?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Walking Gardening Running Weight lifting Other
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,073 1,780 57.4 55.0-59.8 206 6.6 5.5- 7.9 222 8.4 7.1- 9.9 193 7.1 6.0- 8.4 672 20.5 18.7-22.5
Medicaid Region 4 764 439 55.9 51.4-60.4 33 5.0 3.3- 7.5 63 8.6 6.4-11.5 60 8.5 6.3-11.3 169 22.0 18.5-26.0
GENDER
Male 368 184 47.5 41.2-54.0 19 6.3 3.7-10.6 41 11.0 7.6-15.7 31 9.4 6.2-14.0 93 25.7 20.7-31.5
Female 396 255 64.0 57.7-69.9 14 3.7 1.9- 7.0 22 6.3 4.0- 9.9 29 7.5 4.9-11.4 76 18.4 13.7-24.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 478 282 58.6 52.9-64.0 21 5.0 2.9- 8.5 39 9.5 6.5-13.7 39 8.8 6.0-12.8 97 18.1 14.4-22.5
Non-Hispanic Black 127 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 27 25.1 16.2-36.6
Other 144 *** *** *** *** *** *** 18 10.9 6.5-17.7 12 9.2 4.7-17.0 41 30.1 21.0-41.1
AGE
18-44 323 148 47.5 40.7-54.3 *** *** *** 48 13.5 9.7-18.5 41 11.1 8.0-15.3 78 25.6 19.9-32.1
45-64 245 158 62.5 54.5-69.8 14 8.2 4.4-14.9 13 5.2 2.7- 9.5 14 6.9 3.4-13.7 46 17.2 12.5-23.3
65+ 188 127 69.1 60.4-76.6 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 45 21.2 15.2-28.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 161 93 53.4 43.7-62.8 *** *** *** 12 6.4 3.4-11.7 14 11.4 6.5-19.4 35 21.9 14.7-31.3
Some Post-H.S. 156 98 60.1 50.4-69.2 *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 6.6 3.5-11.9 31 21.2 14.3-30.1
College Graduate 443 245 55.2 49.7-60.6 15 3.1 1.7- 5.6 45 11.1 8.2-15.0 35 7.7 5.3-10.9 103 22.8 18.6-27.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 167 98 58.4 48.8-67.4 *** *** *** 11 6.5 3.3-12.2 12 9.1 4.8-16.7 39 20.8 14.7-28.6
$50,000+ 458 261 53.8 47.8-59.7 21 5.0 2.9- 8.2 43 10.3 7.2-14.6 42 9.2 6.4-13.1 91 21.7 17.0-27.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 132 75 57.5 47.5-66.9 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 37 25.3 17.7-34.7

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*Asked only of those who reported any exercise in the past month.
NOTE: There are 10 exercise categories available for this question. The four categories featured in this table
had the highest frequency of any single category.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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