2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 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 any melanoma or any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,075 398 8.0 7.0- 9.1 3,677 92.0 90.9-93.0
Region 1 & 2 446 52 10.5 6.8-15.9 394 89.5 84.1-93.2
GENDER
Male 190 20 7.7 4.3-13.3 170 92.3 86.7-95.7
Female 256 32 13.1 7.2-22.7 224 86.9 77.3-92.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 47 12.1 7.8-18.3 319 87.9 81.7-92.2
Non-Hispanic Black 15 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** 58 99.1 95.6-99.8
AGE
18-44 108 *** *** *** 107 99.4 95.5-99.9
45-64 145 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 184 38 19.7 12.5-29.5 146 80.3 70.5-87.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 122 11 11.2 4.8-23.8 111 88.8 76.2-95.2
Some Post-H.S. 141 14 9.5 4.6-18.6 127 90.5 81.4-95.4
College Graduate 181 26 9.6 6.0-14.9 155 90.4 85.1-94.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 153 13 10.2 4.0-23.8 140 89.8 76.2-96.0
$50,000+ 185 22 10.5 6.2-17.1 163 89.5 82.9-93.8
Don't know/Not Sure 102 16 11.7 5.5-23.5 86 88.3 76.5-94.5

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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 2021 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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