2013 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access-Whites

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
-Whites 6,145 5,470 85.8 84.5-87.0 675 14.2 13.0-15.5
GENDER
Male 2,407 2,122 84.6 82.5-86.5 285 15.4 13.5-17.5
Female 3,738 3,348 86.9 85.2-88.3 390 13.1 11.7-14.8
HISPANIC
Hispanic 142 *** *** *** 66 49.0 39.0-59.1
Non-Hispanic 5,988 5,379 86.8 85.6-88.0 609 13.2 12.0-14.4
AGE
18-34 814 645 78.1 74.5-81.3 169 21.9 18.7-25.5
35-44 720 585 81.1 77.5-84.3 135 18.9 15.7-22.5
45-54 1,016 839 82.8 79.7-85.5 177 17.2 14.5-20.3
55-64 1,276 1,104 87.7 85.3-89.7 172 12.3 10.3-14.7
65-74 1,231 *** *** *** *** *** ***
75+ 1,043 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 619 488 69.6 64.4-74.4 131 30.4 25.6-35.6
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,680 1,450 83.3 80.7-85.6 230 16.7 14.4-19.3
Some Post-H.S. 1,710 1,514 86.7 84.4-88.8 196 13.3 11.2-15.6
College Graduate 2,129 2,012 94.4 93.1-95.5 117 5.6 4.5- 6.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 589 442 66.1 60.3-71.5 147 33.9 28.5-39.7
$15,000- 24,999 925 700 66.5 62.1-70.6 225 33.5 29.4-37.9
$25,000- 34,999 550 464 78.9 73.8-83.2 86 21.1 16.8-26.2
$35,000- 49,999 761 700 89.3 85.6-92.1 61 10.7 7.9-14.4
$50,000- 74,999 728 704 95.8 93.4-97.4 24 4.2 2.6- 6.6
$75,000+ 1,359 1,330 96.5 94.5-97.8 29 3.5 2.2- 5.5
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,803 1,598 84.3 81.7-86.6 205 15.7 13.4-18.3
No 4,272 3,812 86.4 84.9-87.8 460 13.6 12.2-15.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 874 818 93.0 90.4-95.0 56 7.0 5.0- 9.6
Non-Veteran 5,270 4,651 84.7 83.2-86.0 619 15.3 14.0-16.8
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 3,119 2,729 83.7 81.8-85.5 390 16.3 14.5-18.2
No 3,026 2,741 88.1 86.4-89.7 285 11.9 10.3-13.6

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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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