2014 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access-FEMALES

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 7,263 6,313 83.9 82.8-84.9 950 16.1 15.1-17.2
-FEMALES 4,159 3,649 84.1 82.6-85.5 510 15.9 14.5-17.4
RACE
White 2,932 2,646 86.6 84.8-88.2 286 13.4 11.8-15.2
African American 903 798 86.8 83.9-89.2 105 13.2 10.8-16.1
Other Minorities 270 165 55.1 48.1-62.0 105 44.9 38.0-51.9
AGE
18-34 665 490 74.1 70.2-77.6 175 25.9 22.4-29.8
35-44 526 400 76.3 72.0-80.2 126 23.7 19.8-28.0
45-54 619 525 85.9 82.6-88.6 94 14.1 11.4-17.4
55-64 829 729 86.9 84.0-89.4 100 13.1 10.6-16.0
65-74 824 820 99.4 98.4-99.8 *** *** ***
75+ 631 625 99.0 97.5-99.6 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 477 344 65.3 59.9-70.4 133 34.7 29.6-40.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,147 985 81.9 78.8-84.6 162 18.1 15.4-21.2
Some Post-H.S. 1,153 1,016 86.3 83.7-88.5 137 13.7 11.5-16.3
College Graduate 1,362 1,287 93.9 92.2-95.2 75 6.1 4.8- 7.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 524 398 72.1 67.1-76.5 126 27.9 23.5-32.9
$15,000- 24,999 710 547 69.8 65.4-73.9 163 30.2 26.1-34.6
$25,000- 34,999 414 360 80.2 74.5-85.0 54 19.8 15.0-25.5
$35,000- 49,999 468 442 92.8 89.1-95.3 26 7.2 4.7-10.9
$50,000- 74,999 409 393 94.6 90.7-96.9 16 5.4 3.1- 9.3
$75,000+ 707 689 97.2 95.4-98.4 18 2.8 1.6- 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,185 1,077 87.6 84.9-89.8 108 12.4 10.2-15.1
No 2,852 2,467 83.1 81.3-84.8 385 16.9 15.2-18.7
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 110 103 92.7 84.0-96.8 *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 4,042 3,539 83.8 82.3-85.2 503 16.2 14.8-17.7
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 2,427 2,128 83.8 81.8-85.7 299 16.2 14.3-18.2
No 1,732 1,521 84.4 82.1-86.5 211 15.6 13.5-17.9

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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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