2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^		 None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,011 2,592 63.2 61.1-65.4 357 10.2 8.8-11.7 463 11.6 10.3-13.0 333 8.5 7.3- 9.9 266 6.6 5.5- 7.7
Region 8 687 457 66.8 60.9-72.2 48 8.1 5.4-12.0 74 10.5 7.3-14.8 57 8.7 6.2-12.2 51 5.9 3.5- 9.8
GENDER
Male 289 206 72.1 64.0-79.1 23 9.1 5.1-15.9 26 8.9 5.4-14.4 19 7.4 4.2-12.6 15 2.5 1.0- 5.7
Female 398 251 61.5 53.2-69.1 25 7.0 4.0-11.9 48 12.1 7.4-19.1 38 10.1 6.5-15.4 36 9.4 5.1-16.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 288 190 66.9 59.8-73.3 20 7.8 4.6-12.9 33 10.6 7.1-15.7 22 8.1 5.1-12.7 23 6.5 3.6-11.7
Non-Hispanic Black 81 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 310 *** *** *** 21 7.7 2.8-19.4 32 8.0 2.9-20.2 26 9.2 4.6-17.3 24 1.0 0.4- 2.5
AGE
18-44 210 151 71.5 62.4-79.2 17 9.2 5.0-16.3 23 11.7 6.9-19.1 14 6.5 3.4-12.0 *** *** ***
45-64 249 162 65.1 54.0-74.9 15 3.9 1.6- 9.1 29 11.4 5.7-21.5 21 9.1 5.0-15.8 22 10.5 4.8-21.6
65+ 219 *** *** *** 16 11.6 5.9-21.4 22 7.9 4.4-13.9 22 13.4 7.6-22.5 22 5.9 3.0-11.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 242 159 66.2 55.8-75.2 13 5.6 2.6-11.6 26 11.0 5.9-19.6 23 9.7 5.6-16.3 21 7.5 3.4-15.6
Some Post-H.S. 208 134 65.7 55.5-74.7 16 12.1 6.5-21.6 23 12.7 7.4-21.0 18 6.7 3.4-12.5 17 2.8 1.1- 7.2
College Graduate 234 162 69.5 59.8-77.7 19 6.6 3.5-12.3 24 6.5 3.4-12.0 16 9.9 5.3-17.9 13 7.5 3.0-17.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 262 157 58.9 48.4-68.7 12 5.2 2.0-12.9 32 13.1 7.3-22.3 27 12.2 7.2-19.8 34 10.6 5.4-19.8
$50,000+ 265 187 68.0 59.2-75.7 24 9.5 5.4-16.2 27 10.4 6.1-17.1 17 8.8 4.9-15.2 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 155 110 75.7 64.0-84.5 11 8.1 3.5-17.5 15 7.9 3.4-17.1 12 4.0 1.8- 9.0 *** *** ***

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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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