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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender Counties

Health Care Cost/Under Insurance

What do you think your household has had to give up in the last year to pay health care costs?

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Respond.^
Nothing Only extra activities Only non-necessities Living expenses
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,172 8,738 61.6 60.6-62.6 1,415 10.8 10.2-11.5 1,232 9.0 8.4- 9.6 2,787 18.7 17.9-19.5
-Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 381 217 56.8 51.1-62.3 40 11.4 8.3-15.5 33 8.2 5.7-11.7 91 23.6 19.2-28.7
GENDER
Male 147 87 58.6 49.7-67.0 15 11.1 6.7-18.0 14 9.0 5.2-15.2 31 21.2 14.9-29.3
Female 234 130 54.9 47.9-61.7 25 11.7 7.8-17.0 19 7.3 4.5-11.7 60 26.1 20.4-32.7
RACE
White 295 167 56.3 50.0-62.5 31 11.6 8.1-16.4 24 7.3 4.8-11.0 73 24.7 19.7-30.6
Other 84 48 57.5 44.7-69.3 9 10.8 5.4-20.5 9 11.4 5.4-22.2 18 20.3 12.3-31.6
AGE
18-44 129 64 48.1 38.4-57.9 17 12.5 7.7-19.9 17 13.4 8.1-21.4 31 26.0 18.3-35.5
45+ 250 152 61.6 54.7-68.1 23 10.8 7.1-16.2 16 5.3 3.1- 8.8 59 22.3 17.1-28.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 188 99 51.8 43.7-59.9 18 12.0 7.5-18.7 15 7.2 4.1-12.3 56 29.0 22.4-36.6
Some College + 192 117 61.7 53.8-69.0 22 10.8 7.0-16.3 18 9.2 5.6-14.8 35 18.3 12.8-25.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 219 116 52.2 44.6-59.7 23 11.9 7.8-17.7 15 5.9 3.5-10.0 65 30.0 23.6-37.3
$50,000+ 78 51 69.0 57.4-78.7 11 13.2 7.2-23.0 11 12.9 6.9-22.9 5 4.8 1.9-11.5

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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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