BRFSS 2004 - Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties: (Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs, or government plans such as Medicare?)

	Total Respond.^	Yes	No
North Carolina	15,028	12,791	82.9	82.1-83.8	2,237	17.1	16.2-17.9
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	360	292	76.8	69.5-82.8	68	23.2	17.2-30.5
GENDER
Male	135	106	73.3	60.4-83.2	29	26.7	16.8-39.6
Female	225	186	80.4	73.7-85.7	39	19.6	14.3-26.3
RACE
White	341	280	80.5	75.2-84.9	61	19.5	15.1-24.8
Other	18	11	43.4	17.0-74.1	7	56.6	25.9-83.0
AGE
18-44	131	96	73.8	64.7-81.2	35	26.2	18.8-35.3
45+	229	196	78.6	67.6-86.5	33	21.4	13.5-32.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	198	158	73.7	62.6-82.5	40	26.3	17.5-37.4
Some College +	162	134	81.2	73.5-87.1	28	18.8	12.9-26.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	224	174	72.4	62.3-80.6	50	27.6	19.4-37.7
$50,000+	62	58	92.6	81.8-97.2	4	7.4	2.8-18.2

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^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = 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.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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	Total Respond.^	Yes			No
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	15,028	12,791	82.9	82.1-83.8	2,237	17.1	16.2-17.9
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes	360	292	76.8	69.5-82.8	68	23.2	17.2-30.5
GENDER
Male	135	106	73.3	60.4-83.2	29	26.7	16.8-39.6
Female	225	186	80.4	73.7-85.7	39	19.6	14.3-26.3
RACE
White	341	280	80.5	75.2-84.9	61	19.5	15.1-24.8
Other	18	11	43.4	17.0-74.1	7	56.6	25.9-83.0
AGE
18-44	131	96	73.8	64.7-81.2	35	26.2	18.8-35.3
45+	229	196	78.6	67.6-86.5	33	21.4	13.5-32.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	198	158	73.7	62.6-82.5	40	26.3	17.5-37.4
Some College +	162	134	81.2	73.5-87.1	28	18.8	12.9-26.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	224	174	72.4	62.3-80.6	50	27.6	19.4-37.7
$50,000+	62	58	92.6	81.8-97.2	4	7.4	2.8-18.2

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties

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