2015 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 Demographics

Health Care Access

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
Region 7 904 790 86.8 84.0-89.1 114 13.2 10.9-16.0
GENDER
Male 389 327 83.6 78.9-87.4 62 16.4 12.6-21.1
Female 515 463 89.7 86.4-92.2 52 10.3 7.8-13.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 534 508 95.1 92.7-96.7 26 4.9 3.3- 7.3
Non-Hispanic Black 217 189 83.5 76.4-88.8 28 16.5 11.2-23.6
Other 138 81 56.5 47.2-65.3 57 43.5 34.7-52.8
AGE
18-44 374 304 82.2 77.5-86.1 70 17.8 13.9-22.5
44-64 316 277 87.0 82.4-90.6 39 13.0 9.4-17.6
65+ 198 195 98.5 95.0-99.6 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 312 238 76.5 70.9-81.3 74 23.5 18.7-29.1
Some College + 588 548 92.6 89.7-94.8 40 7.4 5.2-10.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 360 280 77.1 71.8-81.6 80 22.9 18.4-28.2
$50,000+ 356 343 96.1 93.0-97.8 13 3.9 2.2- 7.0

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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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