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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC*

Visual Impairment and Access to Eye Care*

Do you have any kind of health insurance coverage for eye care?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 11,063 6,259 58.1 56.9-59.2 4,804 41.9 40.8-43.1
-Mtn. AHEC 721 345 47.7 43.2-52.2 376 52.3 47.8-56.8
GENDER
Male 270 125 45.5 38.4-52.8 145 54.5 47.2-61.6
Female 451 220 49.5 43.9-55.1 231 50.5 44.9-56.1
RACE
White 659 316 48.2 43.6-52.9 343 51.8 47.1-56.4
Other 59 27 38.0 23.1-55.7 32 62.0 44.3-76.9
AGE
18-44 72 39 49.8 35.6-64.0 33 50.2 36.0-64.4
45+ 649 306 47.3 42.6-52.1 343 52.7 47.9-57.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 314 134 39.8 33.3-46.7 180 60.2 53.3-66.7
Some College + 404 211 54.1 48.2-59.9 193 45.9 40.1-51.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 436 197 44.6 38.7-50.5 239 55.4 49.5-61.3
$50,000+ 186 107 58.4 49.8-66.5 79 41.6 33.5-50.2

Back to Visual Impairment and Access to Eye Care*.

Asked only of respondents age 40 and older.
*NOTE: These questions on visual impairment/eyecare have never been asked previously in the NC BRFSS Survey.

^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.


*Mountain AHEC: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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