2014 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 7,263 6,313 83.9 82.8-84.9 950 16.1 15.1-17.2
-Whites 5,165 4,658 87.4 86.1-88.5 507 12.6 11.5-13.9
GENDER
Male 2,233 2,012 88.2 86.4-89.8 221 11.8 10.2-13.6
Female 2,932 2,646 86.6 84.8-88.2 286 13.4 11.8-15.2
HISPANIC
Hispanic 181 83 40.9 32.8-49.4 98 59.1 50.6-67.2
Non-Hispanic 4,971 4,563 89.2 88.0-90.3 408 10.8 9.7-12.0
AGE
18-34 750 581 78.0 74.5-81.2 169 22.0 18.8-25.5
35-44 587 484 83.0 79.3-86.1 103 17.0 13.9-20.7
45-54 744 643 87.6 84.8-89.9 101 12.4 10.1-15.2
55-64 1,117 1,000 89.5 87.3-91.4 117 10.5 8.6-12.7
65-74 1,106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
75+ 802 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 511 403 74.9 70.0-79.3 108 25.1 20.7-30.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,360 1,173 82.9 80.2-85.4 187 17.1 14.6-19.8
Some Post-H.S. 1,383 1,252 88.8 86.5-90.7 131 11.2 9.3-13.5
College Graduate 1,896 1,817 95.7 94.5-96.6 79 4.3 3.4- 5.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 464 358 72.2 66.8-77.0 106 27.8 23.0-33.2
$15,000- 24,999 724 567 72.1 67.8-76.1 157 27.9 23.9-32.2
$25,000- 34,999 473 422 85.9 81.2-89.6 51 14.1 10.4-18.8
$35,000- 49,999 624 575 89.1 85.2-92.1 49 10.9 7.9-14.8
$50,000- 74,999 625 599 93.9 90.6-96.1 26 6.1 3.9- 9.4
$75,000+ 1,233 1,208 97.7 96.2-98.6 25 2.3 1.4- 3.8
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,441 1,325 89.0 86.7-91.0 116 11.0 9.0-13.3
No 3,577 3,208 87.1 85.6-88.4 369 12.9 11.6-14.4
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 781 744 94.1 91.7-95.9 37 5.9 4.1- 8.3
Non-Veteran 4,380 3,911 86.3 84.9-87.6 469 13.7 12.4-15.1
RURAL COUNTY RESIDENT
Yes 3,088 2,756 86.4 84.7-87.9 332 13.6 12.1-15.3
No 2,077 1,902 88.8 86.9-90.5 175 11.2 9.5-13.1

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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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