2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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%)
TOTAL 7,263 6,313 83.9 82.8-84.9 950 16.1 15.1-17.2
GENDER
Male 3,104 2,664 83.6 82.0-85.2 440 16.4 14.8-18.0
Female 4,159 3,649 84.1 82.6-85.5 510 15.9 14.5-17.4
RACE/ETHNICITY
Non-Hispanic White 4,930 4,526 89.2 88.0-90.3 404 10.8 9.7-12.0
Non-Hispanic Black 1,378 1,196 84.5 82.0-86.7 182 15.5 13.3-18.0
Non-Hispanic Am Indian 115 102 86.4 76.4-92.6 13 13.6 7.4-23.6
Non-Hispanic Other 251 214 82.2 74.3-88.1 37 17.8 11.9-25.7
Hispanic 502 194 34.2 29.6-39.0 308 65.8 61.0-70.4
AGE
18-34 1,260 924 74.4 71.6-77.0 336 25.6 23.0-28.4
35-44 954 721 76.5 73.3-79.3 233 23.5 20.7-26.7
45-54 1,100 928 85.8 83.4-87.9 172 14.2 12.1-16.6
55-64 1,517 1,335 87.8 85.9-89.6 182 12.2 10.4-14.1
65-74 1,368 1,358 99.2 98.3-99.6 *** *** ***
75+ 956 947 99.0 97.8-99.5 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 918 644 66.6 62.9-70.2 274 33.4 29.8-37.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,993 1,659 80.4 78.1-82.5 334 19.6 17.5-21.9
Some Post-H.S. 1,917 1,698 87.0 85.0-88.7 219 13.0 11.3-15.0
College Graduate 2,400 2,280 94.8 93.7-95.7 120 5.2 4.3- 6.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 849 623 70.5 66.7-74.1 226 29.5 25.9-33.3
$15,000- 24,999 1,187 884 69.3 65.9-72.4 303 30.7 27.6-34.1
$25,000- 34,999 701 603 82.2 78.2-85.5 98 17.8 14.5-21.8
$35,000- 49,999 845 776 88.6 85.4-91.3 69 11.4 8.7-14.6
$50,000-74,999 790 752 93.5 90.7-95.5 38 6.5 4.5- 9.3
$75,000+ 1,457 1,421 96.9 95.4-98.0 36 3.1 2.0- 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,942 1,759 87.7 85.7-89.5 183 12.3 10.5-14.3
No 5,062 4,344 83.0 81.7-84.3 718 17.0 15.7-18.3
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 998 946 93.6 91.4-95.2 52 6.4 4.8- 8.6
Non-Veteran 6,251 5,355 82.4 81.2-83.6 896 17.6 16.4-18.8
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 4,236 3,669 83.5 82.0-84.9 567 16.5 15.1-18.0
No 3,027 2,644 84.3 82.6-85.9 383 15.7 14.1-17.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2014 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2014 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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