BRFSS 2004 - Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County): (Did your household take a tax deduction for health care expenses in the last federal tax return your household filed?)

	Total Respond.^	Yes	No
North Carolina	13,280	2,068	16.1	15.3-16.9	11,212	83.9	83.1-84.7
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)	536	85	17.2	13.7-21.5	451	82.8	78.5-86.3
GENDER
Male	186	24	12.5	8.1-18.8	162	87.5	81.2-91.9
Female	350	61	21.4	16.4-27.3	289	78.6	72.7-83.6
RACE
White	451	79	18.0	14.2-22.5	372	82.0	77.5-85.8
Other	82	6	11.8	4.2-28.8	76	88.2	71.2-95.8
AGE
18-44	177	31	18.0	12.0-26.1	146	82.0	73.9-88.0
45+	354	52	16.4	12.3-21.6	302	83.6	78.4-87.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	249	19	8.6	5.1-14.2	230	91.4	85.8-94.9
Some College +	285	66	24.6	19.1-31.0	219	75.4	69.0-80.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	315	38	12.5	8.7-17.6	277	87.5	82.4-91.3
$50,000+	111	34	33.2	23.9-44.1	77	66.8	55.9-76.1

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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	13,280	2,068	16.1	15.3-16.9	11,212	83.9	83.1-84.7
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)	536	85	17.2	13.7-21.5	451	82.8	78.5-86.3
GENDER
Male	186	24	12.5	8.1-18.8	162	87.5	81.2-91.9
Female	350	61	21.4	16.4-27.3	289	78.6	72.7-83.6
RACE
White	451	79	18.0	14.2-22.5	372	82.0	77.5-85.8
Other	82	6	11.8	4.2-28.8	76	88.2	71.2-95.8
AGE
18-44	177	31	18.0	12.0-26.1	146	82.0	73.9-88.0
45+	354	52	16.4	12.3-21.6	302	83.6	78.4-87.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	249	19	8.6	5.1-14.2	230	91.4	85.8-94.9
Some College +	285	66	24.6	19.1-31.0	219	75.4	69.0-80.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	315	38	12.5	8.7-17.6	277	87.5	82.4-91.3
$50,000+	111	34	33.2	23.9-44.1	77	66.8	55.9-76.1

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

Health Care Cost/Under Insurance

Did your household take a tax deduction for health care expenses in the last federal tax return your household filed?