2015 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 6,685 949 15.5 14.4-16.6 5,736 84.5 83.4-85.6
-MALES 2,868 392 14.0 12.5-15.7 2,476 86.0 84.3-87.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 1,940 210 12.0 10.3-14.0 1,730 88.0 86.0-89.7
Non-Hispanic Black 488 90 15.8 12.5-19.7 398 84.2 80.3-87.5
Other 389 82 20.8 15.9-26.8 307 79.2 73.2-84.1
AGE
18-34 603 87 13.4 10.6-16.9 516 86.6 83.1-89.4
35-44 415 80 19.0 14.9-23.9 335 81.0 76.1-85.1
45-54 517 91 16.1 12.7-20.1 426 83.9 79.9-87.3
55-64 598 94 17.4 13.9-21.6 504 82.6 78.4-86.1
65-74 447 22 4.7 2.9- 7.5 425 95.3 92.5-97.1
75+ 256 13 6.9 3.8-12.2 243 93.1 87.8-96.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 323 66 18.3 14.0-23.6 257 81.7 76.4-86.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 835 153 18.3 15.4-21.6 682 81.7 78.4-84.6
Some Post-H.S. 725 108 14.4 11.5-17.8 617 85.6 82.2-88.5
College Graduate 964 61 5.7 4.3- 7.4 903 94.3 92.6-95.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 232 64 23.5 17.8-30.3 168 76.5 69.7-82.2
$15,000- 24,999 461 129 28.6 23.9-33.8 332 71.4 66.2-76.1
$25,000- 34,999 256 41 16.8 11.1-24.4 215 83.2 75.6-88.9
$35,000- 49,999 342 46 14.1 10.2-19.2 296 85.9 80.8-89.8
$50,000- 74,999 408 29 8.3 5.4-12.5 379 91.7 87.5-94.6
$75,000+ 706 31 5.1 3.4- 7.7 675 94.9 92.3-96.6
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 690 139 21.3 17.7-25.2 551 78.7 74.8-82.3
No 2,110 240 11.8 10.1-13.6 1,870 88.2 86.4-89.9
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 777 57 7.8 5.8-10.4 720 92.2 89.6-94.2
Non-Veteran 2,079 332 15.9 14.1-17.9 1,747 84.1 82.1-85.9
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 849 102 12.1 9.8-14.8 747 87.9 85.2-90.2
Regional City or Suburban 638 98 16.7 13.3-20.8 540 83.3 79.2-86.7
Rural 1,381 192 14.0 11.9-16.5 1,189 86.0 83.5-88.1

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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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