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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Guilford County

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
-Guilford County 404 266 65.7 60.1-70.9 46 11.5 8.4-15.6 33 8.2 5.6-11.8 59 14.5 10.6-19.5
GENDER
Male 163 121 74.1 65.2-81.3 16 10.1 6.1-16.3 9 4.2 2.0- 8.7 17 11.6 6.3-20.4
Female 241 145 57.2 50.0-64.2 30 13.0 8.7-19.0 24 12.3 8.0-18.3 42 17.5 12.6-23.8
RACE
White 283 196 69.0 62.7-74.7 32 12.1 8.3-17.4 21 7.1 4.5-11.1 34 11.7 8.2-16.5
Other 119 69 59.1 47.8-69.4 14 10.5 5.9-17.9 11 9.9 5.1-18.4 25 20.6 12.1-32.7
AGE
18-44 137 88 63.5 53.2-72.6 20 15.5 9.8-23.6 12 8.0 4.3-14.3 17 13.1 6.7-24.1
45+ 264 178 68.0 61.4-74.1 26 9.2 5.9-13.9 19 7.3 4.4-12.0 41 15.5 11.2-21.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 136 82 57.2 46.6-67.1 16 11.8 6.7-20.0 9 6.5 2.9-13.8 29 24.5 15.9-35.9
Some College + 267 183 70.3 64.0-75.9 30 11.4 7.8-16.3 24 9.2 6.0-13.7 30 9.1 6.2-13.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 106 55.2 46.2-63.9 23 13.5 8.5-20.8 12 6.3 3.2-12.1 42 25.0 17.4-34.4
$50,000+ 140 104 74.9 66.5-81.7 15 10.9 6.5-17.8 15 11.0 6.6-17.9 6 3.2 1.3- 7.3

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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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