2013 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access-MALES

Was there a time during the last 12 months when you needed to see a doctor, but could not because of the cost?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 8,840 1,430 18.5 17.3-19.6 7,410 81.5 80.4-82.7
-MALES 3,449 463 15.9 14.4-17.6 2,986 84.1 82.4-85.6
RACE
White 2,405 252 12.6 10.9-14.4 2,153 87.4 85.6-89.1
African American 597 112 20.1 16.3-24.4 485 79.9 75.6-83.7
Other Minorities 393 90 29.6 23.3-36.8 303 70.4 63.2-76.7
AGE
18-34 616 106 17.9 14.7-21.6 510 82.1 78.4-85.3
35-44 512 108 22.8 18.7-27.6 404 77.2 72.4-81.3
45-54 573 97 17.0 13.6-21.1 476 83.0 78.9-86.4
55-64 715 101 14.9 11.8-18.5 614 85.1 81.5-88.2
65-74 600 32 5.1 3.2- 8.1 568 94.9 91.9-96.8
75+ 405 17 4.8 2.7- 8.4 388 95.2 91.6-97.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 506 121 28.1 23.2-33.5 385 71.9 66.5-76.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 991 162 17.5 14.7-20.7 829 82.5 79.3-85.3
Some Post-H.S. 843 126 15.2 12.5-18.4 717 84.8 81.6-87.5
College Graduate 1,103 54 5.6 4.0- 7.7 1,049 94.4 92.3-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 361 120 38.7 32.3-45.4 241 61.3 54.6-67.7
$15,000- 24,999 601 147 28.8 24.3-33.8 454 71.2 66.2-75.7
$25,000- 34,999 322 41 18.6 13.4-25.2 281 81.4 74.8-86.6
$35,000- 49,999 410 35 10.6 7.4-15.0 375 89.4 85.0-92.6
$50,000- 74,999 388 16 4.6 2.7- 7.8 372 95.4 92.2-97.3
$75,000+ 783 24 2.8 1.8- 4.5 759 97.2 95.5-98.2
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 929 183 24.6 21.0-28.6 746 75.4 71.4-79.0
No 2,471 271 13.2 11.5-15.1 2,200 86.8 84.9-88.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 1,036 67 7.0 5.3- 9.4 969 93.0 90.6-94.7
Non-Veteran 2,409 396 18.7 16.8-20.8 2,013 81.3 79.2-83.2
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,717 259 18.4 16.0-21.0 1,458 81.6 79.0-84.0
No 1,732 204 13.5 11.5-15.7 1,528 86.5 84.3-88.5

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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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