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Main reason not visit dentist past year : Fear, nervous, pain, dislike going by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number
in Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school 14 19,914 13 5 20
High school grad/GED 41 43,595 11 7 14
Some Post High school 55 56,230 12 8 16
College graduate 29 27,669 11 7 15
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Cost by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number in
Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school 36 37,446 24 16 31
High school grad/GED 138 148,248 37 31 42
Some Post High school 150 152,383 34 28 40
College graduate 79 72,840 29 23 35
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Do not have/know a dentist by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number in
Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school - - - - -
High school grad/GED - - - - -
Some Post High school 10 9,737 2 1 4
College graduate 14 12,704 5 2 8
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Can't get to office (no transp/no appts) by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number
in Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school - - - - -
High school grad/GED - - - - -
Some Post High school - - - - -
College graduate - - - - -
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : No reason/no problems/no teeth by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number in
Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school 58 65,911 42 32 51
High school grad/GED 137 147,421 36 31 42
Some Post High school 107 127,258 28 22 35
College graduate 56 52,199 21 15 26
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Other priorities by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number
in Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school 10 15,390 10 4 16
High school grad/GED 32 33,099 8 5 11
Some Post High school 56 59,483 13 10 17
College graduate 47 50,759 20 15 26
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Have not thought of it by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number in
Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school - - - - -
High school grad/GED 21 21,270 5 3 8
Some Post High school 27 28,312 6 4 9
College graduate 19 21,301 8 5 12
 
Main reason not visit dentist past year : Other by education : BRFSS 2001

Education Number
in Sample
Number in Population Percent
for Education
Lower CI Upper CI
Less than High school - - - - -
High school grad/GED - - - - -
Some Post High school - - - - -
College graduate - - - - -

* Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.
* Denominators include all respondents except those with missing, don't know and refused answers.
* Lower CI and Upper CI show the 95% confidence interval around the percent.
* Cell sizes less than 10 are suppressed and show as a dash (-).
* Use caution in interpreting Number in Sample cell sizes between 10 and 30.

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