2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 483 370 77.6 72.9-81.7 113 22.4 18.3-27.1
GENDER
Male 217 171 80.2 73.3-85.7 46 19.8 14.3-26.7
Female 266 199 75.0 68.4-80.6 67 25.0 19.4-31.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 317 246 79.7 74.2-84.4 71 20.3 15.6-25.8
Non-Hispanic Black 102 75 72.0 60.9-80.9 27 28.0 19.1-39.1
Other 61 47 81.9 69.6-89.9 14 18.1 10.1-30.4
AGE
18-44 171 147 86.3 79.6-91.0 24 13.7 9.0-20.4
45-64 160 119 71.4 61.9-79.3 41 28.6 20.7-38.1
65+ 147 100 68.6 58.8-76.9 47 31.4 23.1-41.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 165 111 70.1 61.8-77.3 54 29.9 22.7-38.2
Some Post-H.S. 137 105 78.6 70.0-85.2 32 21.4 14.8-30.0
College Graduate 178 152 89.3 83.5-93.2 26 10.7 6.8-16.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 106 71.5 62.3-79.1 43 28.5 20.9-37.7
$50,000+ 208 178 86.5 80.3-90.9 30 13.5 9.1-19.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 80 69.5 58.6-78.6 39 30.5 21.4-41.4

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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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