2015 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 6,679 5,812 84.6 83.5-85.7 867 15.4 14.3-16.5
-FEMALES 3,817 3,399 87.4 86.0-88.7 418 12.6 11.3-14.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 2,548 2,399 92.7 91.3-93.9 149 7.3 6.1- 8.7
Non-Hispanic Black 816 732 90.0 87.3-92.2 84 10.0 7.8-12.7
Other 411 229 52.4 46.5-58.3 182 47.6 41.7-53.5
AGE
18-34 657 516 79.6 75.8-82.9 141 20.4 17.1-24.2
35-44 522 417 82.5 78.6-85.9 105 17.5 14.1-21.4
45-54 645 551 85.4 81.9-88.3 94 14.6 11.7-18.1
55-64 738 672 91.7 89.1-93.8 66 8.3 6.2-10.9
65-74 693 690 99.7 98.9-99.9 *** *** ***
75+ 502 496 98.6 96.2-99.5 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 392 283 70.0 64.1-75.4 109 30.0 24.6-35.9
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,028 883 84.9 82.1-87.4 145 15.1 12.6-17.9
Some Post-H.S. 1,120 1,008 89.8 87.5-91.8 112 10.2 8.2-12.5
College Graduate 1,267 1,215 96.3 95.1-97.3 52 3.7 2.7- 4.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 423 326 74.4 68.8-79.2 97 25.6 20.8-31.2
$15,000- 24,999 640 514 78.7 74.5-82.4 126 21.3 17.6-25.5
$25,000- 34,999 331 291 84.1 77.4-89.0 40 15.9 11.0-22.6
$35,000- 49,999 402 368 88.9 83.9-92.5 34 11.1 7.5-16.1
$50,000- 74,999 408 394 96.6 93.9-98.1 14 3.4 1.9- 6.1
$75,000+ 722 706 97.7 95.5-98.8 16 2.3 1.2- 4.5
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,070 985 90.3 87.7-92.4 85 9.7 7.6-12.3
No 2,674 2,348 86.3 84.5-87.9 326 13.7 12.1-15.5
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 127 121 95.8 90.0-98.3 *** *** ***
Non-Veteran 3,682 3,272 87.2 85.7-88.5 410 12.8 11.5-14.3
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,120 994 89.5 87.4-91.2 126 10.5 8.8-12.6
Regional City or Suburban 806 714 84.8 81.2-87.8 92 15.2 12.2-18.8
Rural 1,891 1,691 87.2 85.0-89.2 200 12.8 10.8-15.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2015 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2015 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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