2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 699 74 10.4 7.3-14.6 625 89.6 85.4-92.7
GENDER
Male 291 28 9.6 5.4-16.6 263 90.4 83.4-94.6
Female 408 46 11.2 7.2-16.9 362 88.8 83.1-92.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 292 45 13.8 9.4-19.7 247 86.2 80.3-90.6
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** 81 96.8 83.7-99.5
Other 315 25 5.2 1.9-13.3 290 94.8 86.7-98.1
AGE
18-44 212 *** *** *** 205 99.2 97.1-99.8
45-64 255 22 11.0 5.6-20.5 233 89.0 79.5-94.4
65+ 224 44 27.3 18.3-38.8 180 72.7 61.2-81.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 250 21 5.9 3.1-11.1 229 94.1 88.9-96.9
Some Post-H.S. 210 23 15.8 9.0-26.4 187 84.2 73.6-91.0
College Graduate 236 30 10.3 6.3-16.6 206 89.7 83.4-93.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 266 25 7.6 4.1-13.6 241 92.4 86.4-95.9
$50,000+ 269 36 15.3 9.5-23.8 233 84.7 76.2-90.5
Don't know/Not Sure 157 12 6.4 2.5-15.5 145 93.6 84.5-97.5

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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 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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