2016 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 6,511 5,735 86.2 85.1-87.3 776 13.8 12.7-14.9
Region 7 817 707 85.0 81.8-87.8 110 15.0 12.2-18.2
GENDER
Male 352 293 81.0 75.4-85.5 59 19.0 14.5-24.6
Female 465 414 88.8 85.0-91.7 51 11.2 8.3-15.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 490 464 94.2 91.2-96.2 26 5.8 3.8- 8.8
Non-Hispanic Black 206 174 77.8 69.1-84.6 32 22.2 15.4-30.9
Other 115 63 58.6 48.2-68.3 52 41.4 31.7-51.8
AGE
18-44 312 245 79.2 73.5-84.0 67 20.8 16.0-26.5
45-64 299 261 86.1 80.8-90.1 38 13.9 9.9-19.2
65+ 196 194 99.4 97.7-99.9 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 272 193 67.2 60.2-73.6 79 32.8 26.4-39.8
Some College + 542 512 94.7 92.0-96.5 30 5.3 3.5- 8.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 322 248 73.1 66.5-78.8 74 26.9 21.2-33.5
$50,000+ 348 336 96.0 92.9-97.8 12 4.0 2.2- 7.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2016 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2016 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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