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

Health Care Cost/Under Insurance

About how much money does your household pay monthly for health insurance premiums
(this would include any amount your household pays for health insurance either directly or taken out of paychecks)?*

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  Total
Respond.^
No cost <$100 $100-$299 $300-$499 $500+
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 12,206 2,784 20.9 20.1-21.8 4,692 40.0 38.9-41.2 2,945 23.8 22.8-24.7 1,240 10.5 9.8-11.2 545 4.8 4.3- 5.3
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 501 124 24.3 19.9-29.4 193 37.2 32.1-42.6 115 23.2 19.0-28.0 50 11.0 8.1-14.8 19 4.3 2.5- 7.1
GENDER
Male 189 40 24.1 17.4-32.4 77 37.5 29.5-46.2 46 25.1 18.6-33.0 16 8.5 5.1-14.1 10 4.8 2.3- 9.6
Female 312 84 24.6 19.2-30.9 116 36.9 30.6-43.7 69 21.3 16.3-27.2 34 13.5 9.3-19.1 9 3.8 1.8- 7.9
RACE
White 423 106 23.7 19.3-28.9 144 34.8 29.6-40.5 106 24.3 19.8-29.4 48 12.3 9.1-16.5 19 4.8 2.8- 8.0
Other 75 17 27.3 13.1-48.2 47 57.6 38.6-74.5 9 14.6 6.1-31.1 2 0.6 0.1- 2.7 0 0.0 . - .
AGE
18-44 182 39 19.9 13.7-28.1 85 47.1 38.2-56.3 36 19.7 13.6-27.5 15 9.6 5.3-16.9 7 3.6 1.5- 8.4
45+ 317 84 27.1 21.4-33.8 108 30.8 25.0-37.2 78 25.3 19.9-31.7 35 12.1 8.5-16.8 12 4.7 2.5- 8.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 241 63 25.1 18.5-33.0 109 46.7 38.8-54.9 47 16.6 11.8-22.9 17 8.2 4.8-13.6 5 3.4 1.4- 8.1
Some College + 257 60 23.3 17.6-30.0 82 28.9 22.7-36.1 68 29.1 22.8-36.3 33 13.6 9.4-19.4 14 5.1 2.7- 9.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 300 65 20.7 15.3-27.4 145 47.9 40.8-55.0 65 21.7 16.5-28.0 19 7.0 4.2-11.4 6 2.7 1.1- 6.6
$50,000+ 104 24 25.1 16.7-35.9 21 19.0 12.0-28.6 28 25.1 17.0-35.4 19 20.2 12.6-30.7 12 10.7 5.5-19.6

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*Asked only of respondents who reported having some type of health insurance.

^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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