2015 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Health Care Access-Non-Hispanic White

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
-Non-Hispanic White 4,490 499 12.8 11.6-14.1 3,991 87.2 85.9-88.4
GENDER
Male 1,940 210 12.0 10.3-14.0 1,730 88.0 86.0-89.7
Female 2,550 289 13.5 11.9-15.4 2,261 86.5 84.6-88.1
AGE
18-34 696 106 14.6 11.8-17.8 590 85.4 82.2-88.2
35-44 513 92 18.4 14.8-22.8 421 81.6 77.2-85.2
45-54 755 120 15.5 12.7-18.7 635 84.5 81.3-87.3
55-64 941 112 14.1 11.4-17.3 829 85.9 82.7-88.6
65-74 912 42 4.7 3.3- 6.5 870 95.3 93.5-96.7
75+ 628 20 4.5 2.8- 7.3 608 95.5 92.7-97.2
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 318 62 21.2 16.0-27.5 256 78.8 72.5-84.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 1,138 151 15.1 12.7-17.9 987 84.9 82.1-87.3
Some Post-H.S. 1,308 182 13.8 11.8-16.1 1,126 86.2 83.9-88.2
College Graduate 1,708 101 6.1 4.9- 7.5 1,607 93.9 92.5-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 327 81 26.9 21.3-33.2 246 73.1 66.8-78.7
$15,000- 24,999 576 124 25.6 21.1-30.7 452 74.4 69.3-78.9
$25,000- 34,999 363 63 17.9 13.6-23.1 300 82.1 76.9-86.4
$35,000- 49,999 528 60 13.7 10.3-18.1 468 86.3 81.9-89.7
$50,000- 74,999 623 55 9.2 6.8-12.4 568 90.8 87.6-93.2
$75,000+ 1,176 44 5.0 3.6- 7.0 1,132 95.0 93.0-96.4
DISABILITY STATUS
Yes 1,242 239 22.8 20.0-26.0 1,003 77.2 74.0-80.0
No 3,168 248 9.2 7.9-10.6 2,920 90.8 89.4-92.1
VETERAN STATUS
Veteran 670 42 7.2 5.1- 9.9 628 92.8 90.1-94.9
Non-Veteran 3,814 457 13.7 12.4-15.2 3,357 86.3 84.8-87.6
RURAL-URBAN CATEGORY
Urban 1,123 105 9.2 7.4-11.3 1,018 90.8 88.7-92.6
Regional City or Suburban 1,059 127 14.5 12.0-17.3 932 85.5 82.7-88.0
Rural 2,308 267 14.1 12.2-16.2 2,041 85.9 83.8-87.8

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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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