2013 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access-MALES

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 8,835 7,529 80.2 78.9-81.3 1,306 19.8 18.7-21.1
-MALES 3,443 2,866 78.1 76.1-79.9 577 21.9 20.1-23.9
RACE
White 2,407 2,122 84.6 82.5-86.5 285 15.4 13.5-17.5
African American 596 462 70.5 65.4-75.1 134 29.5 24.9-34.6
Other Minorities 388 240 47.7 40.7-54.8 148 52.3 45.2-59.3
AGE
18-34 611 416 67.5 63.1-71.7 195 32.5 28.3-36.9
35-44 510 382 72.5 67.6-77.0 128 27.5 23.0-32.4
45-54 574 444 75.4 70.7-79.6 130 24.6 20.4-29.3
55-64 712 615 87.0 83.7-89.7 97 13.0 10.3-16.3
65-74 601 586 97.4 95.4-98.6 15 2.6 1.4- 4.6
75+ 407 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 507 324 54.4 48.8-59.9 183 45.6 40.1-51.2
H.S. or G.E.D. 982 797 77.4 73.7-80.7 185 22.6 19.3-26.3
Some Post-H.S. 843 707 81.8 78.1-85.0 136 18.2 15.0-21.9
College Graduate 1,104 1,032 92.6 90.5-94.3 72 7.4 5.7- 9.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 361 226 51.5 44.8-58.1 135 48.5 41.9-55.2
$15,000- 24,999 599 402 58.4 53.2-63.4 197 41.6 36.6-46.8
$25,000- 34,999 323 261 75.4 68.9-81.0 62 24.6 19.0-31.1
$35,000- 49,999 411 370 86.2 80.9-90.3 41 13.8 9.7-19.1
$50,000- 74,999 389 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$75,000+ 784 756 94.2 91.2-96.2 28 5.8 3.8- 8.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 931 807 82.0 78.2-85.3 124 18.0 14.7-21.8
No 2,463 2,024 77.2 74.9-79.3 439 22.8 20.7-25.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,034 974 93.0 90.5-94.8 60 7.0 5.2- 9.5
Non-Veteran 2,405 1,888 73.4 71.0-75.7 517 26.6 24.3-29.0
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,713 1,415 77.2 74.2-79.9 298 22.8 20.1-25.8
No 1,730 1,451 79.0 76.3-81.4 279 21.0 18.6-23.7

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2013 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2013 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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