2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are exams to check for colon cancer.
Have you ever had either of these exams?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,627 1,953 74.6 72.5-76.6 674 25.4 23.4-27.5
Region 5 357 256 74.2 68.5-79.1 101 25.8 20.9-31.5
GENDER
Male 152 107 73.0 64.4-80.2 45 27.0 19.8-35.6
Female 205 149 75.3 67.6-81.7 56 24.7 18.3-32.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 240 187 77.0 70.0-82.8 53 23.0 17.2-30.0
Non-Hispanic Black 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 191 114 65.4 57.3-72.6 77 34.6 27.4-42.7
65+ 159 139 86.6 78.2-92.0 20 13.4 8.0-21.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 100 *** *** *** 43 33.5 24.0-44.5
Some Post-H.S. 94 73 77.6 66.2-86.0 21 22.4 14.0-33.8
College Graduate 161 125 79.0 71.5-85.0 36 21.0 15.0-28.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 159 127 81.1 73.2-87.2 32 18.9 12.8-26.8
Don't know/Not Sure 93 71 79.5 67.5-87.9 22 20.5 12.1-32.5

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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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