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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)*

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
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) 456 213 46.9 41.3-52.6 243 53.1 47.4-58.7
GENDER
Male 177 79 44.2 35.5-53.3 98 55.8 46.7-64.5
Female 279 134 49.3 42.2-56.3 145 50.7 43.7-57.8
RACE
White 417 196 47.6 41.9-53.5 221 52.4 46.5-58.1
Other 39 17 33.0 15.4-57.2 22 67.0 42.8-84.6
AGE
18-44 46 23 46.1 29.2-64.0 23 53.9 36.0-70.8
45+ 410 190 47.0 41.2-53.0 220 53.0 47.0-58.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 215 89 38.8 31.0-47.1 126 61.2 52.9-69.0
Some College + 239 124 54.3 46.7-61.7 115 45.7 38.3-53.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 293 134 45.4 38.4-52.7 159 54.6 47.3-61.6
$50,000+ 104 58 57.3 45.7-68.1 46 42.7 31.9-54.3

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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