2014 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 7,269 1,043 16.2 15.2-17.3 6,226 83.8 82.7-84.8
-MALES 3,106 376 13.2 11.8-14.7 2,730 86.8 85.3-88.2
RACE
White 2,236 223 11.5 10.0-13.3 2,013 88.5 86.7-90.0
African American 525 91 17.8 14.3-22.0 434 82.2 78.0-85.7
Other Minorities 304 57 16.5 12.3-21.7 247 83.5 78.3-87.7
AGE
18-34 599 95 14.6 11.7-18.0 504 85.4 82.0-88.3
35-44 426 65 15.6 12.1-19.9 361 84.4 80.1-87.9
45-54 481 81 16.0 12.7-19.9 400 84.0 80.1-87.3
55-64 687 90 13.3 10.6-16.5 597 86.7 83.5-89.4
65-74 544 28 6.1 4.0- 9.1 516 93.9 90.9-96.0
75+ 326 16 6.5 3.7-11.0 310 93.5 89.0-96.3
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 439 92 22.3 17.9-27.5 347 77.7 72.5-82.1
H.S. or G.E.D. 848 134 15.0 12.5-17.9 714 85.0 82.1-87.5
Some Post-H.S. 765 86 11.4 9.1-14.2 679 88.6 85.8-90.9
College Graduate 1,039 64 6.7 5.1- 8.7 975 93.3 91.3-94.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 326 96 31.7 26.0-38.0 230 68.3 62.0-74.0
$15,000- 24,999 478 113 26.5 21.8-31.8 365 73.5 68.2-78.2
$25,000- 34,999 285 30 11.0 7.4-16.2 255 89.0 83.8-92.6
$35,000- 49,999 378 34 11.0 7.6-15.6 344 89.0 84.4-92.4
$50,000- 74,999 381 27 8.0 5.2-11.9 354 92.0 88.1-94.8
$75,000+ 750 23 2.8 1.8- 4.4 727 97.2 95.6-98.2
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 754 149 22.9 19.5-26.8 605 77.1 73.2-80.5
No 2,215 212 10.6 9.1-12.3 2,003 89.4 87.7-90.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 888 64 8.4 6.4-11.0 824 91.6 89.0-93.6
Non-Veteran 2,211 310 14.7 13.0-16.5 1,901 85.3 83.5-87.0
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 1,809 220 12.9 11.1-14.9 1,589 87.1 85.1-88.9
No 1,297 156 13.7 11.6-16.1 1,141 86.3 83.9-88.4

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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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