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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe 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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 565 333 57.7 52.7-62.6 65 13.6 10.4-17.6 50 8.8 6.4-12.0 117 19.9 16.2-24.2
GENDER
Male 194 132 65.9 57.7-73.2 21 13.4 8.6-20.2 13 5.9 3.2-10.7 28 14.9 9.9-21.7
Female 371 201 51.0 44.8-57.2 44 13.7 9.8-18.9 37 11.2 7.8-15.9 89 24.0 19.1-29.8
RACE
White 477 272 56.1 50.8-61.3 58 14.3 10.8-18.6 44 9.2 6.6-12.6 103 20.4 16.5-25.0
Other 85 59 70.8 54.7-82.9 7 8.1 3.0-20.1 6 5.7 1.6-18.4 13 15.4 7.4-29.5
AGE
18-44 192 95 49.1 40.3-57.9 33 19.5 13.5-27.3 26 12.4 7.9-19.0 38 19.0 13.2-26.5
45+ 368 235 63.0 56.9-68.8 32 10.1 6.8-14.8 23 6.4 4.0- 9.9 78 20.5 15.9-26.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 146 55.5 47.8-62.9 29 14.9 10.1-21.2 18 5.9 3.2-10.6 69 23.8 18.1-30.7
Some College + 299 184 59.0 52.2-65.5 36 12.7 8.7-18.2 32 11.3 7.8-16.1 47 16.9 12.4-22.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 328 178 51.9 45.2-58.6 35 13.3 9.2-18.9 31 9.4 6.2-14.0 84 25.3 20.0-31.5
$50,000+ 119 81 66.2 55.6-75.3 15 14.5 8.1-24.6 13 10.7 6.1-18.2 10 8.7 4.4-16.5

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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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