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2003 County Health Data Book
North Carolina Community Health Assessment Process

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
State Center for Health Statistics and the
Office of Healthy Carolinians/Health Education
June 2003

The project staff of the North Carolina Community Health Assessment Initiative (NC-CHAI) created the County Health Data Book to provide communities with quantitative data to support community health assessments. The County Health Data Book includes a wide range of health-related county and state data.

Data from the County Data Book are available here for download from the web. The Excel worksheets for each main area are contained in one Excel 97 workbook. Click on the links below to download the files to your computer. Some worksheets in each workbook contain more than one topic.

In order to view some of the data, you will need Microsoft Excel or the free Microsoft Excel Viewer. For other reports you will need Microsoft Word or the free Viewer for Microsoft Word.

• Population (Word 97 Document - 1.6 MB)
  • July 1, 2001 Population Estimates by Age, Race, and Sex
• Pregnancy and Live Births (Excel 97 Workbook - 185 kb)
  • Live Birth Rates per 1,000 Population, 1997-2001
  • Pregnancies by County, 2001 (Word 97 Document - 772 kb)
  • Pregnancy, Fertility, Abortion Rates and Abortion Fractions by Race for Women 15-44 and Women 15-19, 2001
  • 1997-2001 NC Live Births with Age of Mother Under 30 and 30 or More by County of Residence; Number at Risk due to High Parity
  • 1997-2001 NC Live Births by County of Residence; Number with Interval from Last Delivery to Conception of Six Months or Less
  • Low Birth Weight Births by Race, 1997-2001
  • Low (<2500 grams) and Very Low (<1500 grams) Weight Births, 1997-2001
  • Low (<2500 grams) and Very Low (<1500 grams) Weight Black Births, 1997-2001
  • Women Receiving Prenatal Care in the First Trimester (Total, Black, Native American), 1997-2001
  • Births Delivered by Cesarean Section (Primary and Repeat) and by Primary Cesarean Section, 1997-2001
  • Pregnancy Rates for Girls Ages 15-17, by Race, 1997-2001
  • Births to Mothers who Smoke, 1997-2001
• Mortality (Excel 97 Workbook - 58 kb)
  • Fetal Death Rates per 1000 Deliveries, 1997-2001
  • Neonatal (<28 Days) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 1997-2001
  • Postneonatal (28 Days - 1 Year) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 1997-2001
  • Unadjusted Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2001 and 1997-2001
  • Death Counts and Death Rates for Leading Causes and Cancer Sites, by Age Groups NC 1999-2001 (Word 97 Document - 736 kb)
  • 1999-2001 Race-Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Rates by County (Word 97 Document - 548 kb)
  • 1999-2001 Race-Specific and Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Rates by County (Word 97 Document - 520 kb)
• Morbidity (Excel 97 Workbook - 657 kb)
  • AIDS Cases and Rates per 100,000 Population, 1997-2001
  • Gonorrhea Cases and Rates per 100,000, 1997-2001
  • Primary and Secondary Syphilis Cases and Rates per 100,000, 1997-2001
  • Reported Cases and Average Annual Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population for Selected Communicable Diseases in NC - 1997-2001
  • 1996-2000 NC Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population Age-Adjusted to the 2000 US Population
  • Inpatient Hospital Utilization and Charges by Principal Diagnosis, and County of Residence, NC 2001
  • Asthma Hospitalizations per 100,000, 2001 Hospital Discharge Reports

Web Links for Data Related to Community Health Assessment

Due to reduced staff devoted to Community Health Assessment activities, the State Center for Health Statistics has not been able to compile data from other agencies for this 2003 edition of the County Data Book. Here we provide web links for much of the data from external agencies that were included in the data book published in 2002.

• LINC (Log Into North Carolina): A wide array of data for North Carolina and all 100 counties. http://linc.state.nc.us/
• Health Manpower and Other Health-Related Data (from the Sheps Center for Health Services Research) http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu (see especially "Data available" near bottom of page)
• Education Data (from the NC Department of Public Instruction) http://www.ncpublicschools.org/reportstats.html
• Data Related to Child Health and Well-Being (from Action for Children North Carolina) http://www.ncchild.org
• Crime Data (from the State Bureau of Investigation) http://sbi2.jus.state.nc.us (see Crime Statistics)

For questions related to these or other community assessment data, contact Kathleen Jones-Vessey of the State Center for Health Statistics at (919) 715-9692 or kathleen.jones-vessey@dhhs.nc.gov.

Note on Rates

The 1999-2001 age-adjusted rates presented here will not match the age-adjusted rates found in our 2001 Leading Causes of Death report. Population estimates are periodically modified based on the best available information. Changes in the population estimates by age are responsible for differences in the age-adjusted rates presented across some of our publications.

The 2002 and 1999 County Health Data Books are also available.

Page last updated November 06, 2009

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