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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg County

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs, or government plans such as Medicare?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 13,249 11,601 81.9 80.4-83.3 1,648 18.1 16.7-19.6
-Mecklenburg County 616 547 84.5 79.1-88.6 69 15.5 11.4-20.9
GENDER
Male 231 206 85.0 77.4-90.3 25 15.0 9.7-22.6
Female 385 341 84.0 75.8-89.8 44 16.0 10.2-24.2
RACE
White 428 400 92.1 87.5-95.1 28 7.9 4.9-12.5
Other 177 137 72.5 61.4-81.4 40 27.5 18.6-38.6
AGE
18-44 191 159 79.5 69.9-86.6 32 20.5 13.4-30.1
45+ 417 380 89.4 85.0-92.7 37 10.6 7.3-15.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 148 114 70.4 58.9-79.8 34 29.6 20.2-41.1
Some College + 465 430 89.6 83.0-93.8 35 10.4 6.2-17.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 231 178 65.0 54.1-74.6 53 35.0 25.4-45.9
$50,000+ 283 277 97.1 92.8-98.9 6 2.9 1.1- 7.2

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^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.

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