BRFSS 2004 - Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County): (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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)	600	490	81.8	77.4-85.5	110	18.2	14.5-22.6
GENDER
Male	215	170	79.1	71.4-85.2	45	20.9	14.8-28.6
Female	385	320	84.1	79.1-88.1	65	15.9	11.9-20.9
RACE
White	505	428	83.9	79.5-87.5	77	16.1	12.5-20.5
Other	92	61	64.7	47.4-78.8	31	35.3	21.2-52.6
AGE
18-44	202	137	68.8	60.0-76.4	65	31.2	23.6-40.0
45+	393	348	89.4	85.2-92.6	45	10.6	7.4-14.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	286	214	73.5	66.4-79.6	72	26.5	20.4-33.6
Some College +	310	273	88.8	83.3-92.7	37	11.2	7.3-16.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	346	257	74.4	68.1-79.8	89	25.6	20.2-31.9
$50,000+	122	116	94.9	87.9-97.9	6	5.1	2.1-12.1

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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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)	600	490	81.8	77.4-85.5	110	18.2	14.5-22.6
GENDER
Male	215	170	79.1	71.4-85.2	45	20.9	14.8-28.6
Female	385	320	84.1	79.1-88.1	65	15.9	11.9-20.9
RACE
White	505	428	83.9	79.5-87.5	77	16.1	12.5-20.5
Other	92	61	64.7	47.4-78.8	31	35.3	21.2-52.6
AGE
18-44	202	137	68.8	60.0-76.4	65	31.2	23.6-40.0
45+	393	348	89.4	85.2-92.6	45	10.6	7.4-14.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	286	214	73.5	66.4-79.6	72	26.5	20.4-33.6
Some College +	310	273	88.8	83.3-92.7	37	11.2	7.3-16.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	346	257	74.4	68.1-79.8	89	25.6	20.2-31.9
$50,000+	122	116	94.9	87.9-97.9	6	5.1	2.1-12.1

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)

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