2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Exercise

During the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises
such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,313 3,423 79.8 78.3-81.2 890 20.2 18.8-21.7
Medicaid Region 5 583 449 75.8 71.3-79.8 134 24.2 20.2-28.7
GENDER
Male 278 228 80.9 74.8-85.8 50 19.1 14.2-25.2
Female 305 221 71.1 64.4-77.0 84 28.9 23.0-35.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 367 294 79.5 74.2-83.9 73 20.5 16.1-25.8
Non-Hispanic Black 101 *** *** *** 30 30.3 21.0-41.6
Other 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 222 189 85.7 79.6-90.2 33 14.3 9.8-20.4
45-64 186 136 69.9 61.3-77.4 50 30.1 22.6-38.7
65+ 170 120 66.0 56.7-74.2 50 34.0 25.8-43.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 209 144 68.7 60.8-75.6 65 31.3 24.4-39.2
Some Post-H.S. 163 123 77.0 68.7-83.6 40 23.0 16.4-31.3
College Graduate 209 180 84.9 77.9-89.9 29 15.1 10.1-22.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 128 68.9 60.4-76.3 54 31.1 23.7-39.6
$50,000+ 267 229 83.8 77.5-88.7 38 16.2 11.3-22.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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