2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 456 339 73.1 67.9-77.7 117 26.9 22.3-32.1
GENDER
Male 198 138 70.3 62.1-77.3 60 29.7 22.7-37.9
Female 258 201 75.8 69.0-81.6 57 24.2 18.4-31.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 287 235 78.4 72.1-83.6 52 21.6 16.4-27.9
Non-Hispanic Black 98 76 80.2 69.0-88.1 22 19.8 11.9-31.0
Other 67 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 263 170 63.8 56.6-70.4 93 36.2 29.6-43.4
65+ 173 158 89.7 82.7-94.0 15 10.3 6.0-17.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 130 76 63.2 53.3-72.1 54 36.8 27.9-46.7
Some Post-H.S. 110 87 74.1 62.7-82.9 23 25.9 17.1-37.3
College Graduate 216 176 80.9 74.2-86.2 40 19.1 13.8-25.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 228 180 77.5 70.2-83.4 48 22.5 16.6-29.8
Don't know/Not Sure 113 81 71.7 61.0-80.4 32 28.3 19.6-39.0

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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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