2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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Health care coverage status past 12 months*

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  Total
Respond.^
Continuously insured for the past 12 months Uninsured for part or all past 12 months Uninsured for more than 1 year
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,785 3,144 80.3 78.4-82.0 294 8.7 7.5-10.1 347 11.0 9.7-12.5
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 680 565 78.7 73.5-83.1 53 10.2 7.1-14.3 62 11.1 7.9-15.4
Region 3 & 5 726 594 78.8 74.7-82.3 65 10.6 8.0-13.9 67 10.7 8.1-13.9
Region 4 409 345 83.2 78.5-87.1 27 5.9 3.8- 8.9 37 10.9 7.7-15.2
Region 6 & 7 761 635 81.9 77.9-85.3 62 8.2 5.8-11.6 64 9.9 7.5-12.8
Region 8 585 480 78.4 73.5-82.6 45 9.0 6.2-13.0 60 12.6 9.3-16.7
Region 9 & 10 626 526 81.2 76.7-85.0 42 8.8 6.1-12.5 58 10.0 7.3-13.6
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,583 1,313 78.8 75.5-81.7 115 9.1 7.0-11.9 155 12.1 10.0-14.6
Piedmont 1,406 1,164 81.8 79.2-84.1 120 8.2 6.7-10.1 122 10.0 8.2-12.2
Western NC 798 668 78.9 74.1-83.0 59 10.3 7.4-14.1 71 10.9 7.9-14.8
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 606 503 81.5 76.3-85.8 48 9.4 6.3-13.8 55 9.1 6.1-13.2
Northwest 526 433 79.4 74.2-83.7 43 9.7 6.9-13.5 50 10.9 7.6-15.5
Charlotte 312 270 84.3 78.9-88.5 18 5.5 3.2- 9.2 24 10.2 6.8-15.1
Greensboro 291 244 80.4 73.9-85.7 28 11.0 7.0-16.9 19 8.6 5.3-13.6
Southern Regional 562 458 74.9 69.1-79.9 47 9.9 6.8-14.4 57 15.2 11.3-20.2
Southeast 244 200 79.2 72.0-85.0 19 8.9 5.4-14.4 25 11.8 7.4-18.4
Wake 461 375 77.2 71.5-82.0 40 10.7 7.1-15.8 46 12.1 8.8-16.5
Area L & Eastern 785 662 82.8 78.8-86.2 51 7.1 5.1- 9.9 72 10.1 7.4-13.5

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*Data in this table were derived from health insurance question and health coverage questions from the Adult Insurance state module

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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