2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 & 5 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 4,894 4,283 84.9 83.4-86.3 611 15.1 13.7-16.6
Region 3 & 5 927 812 85.8 82.8-88.4 115 14.2 11.6-17.2
GENDER
Male 395 346 85.7 80.9-89.5 49 14.3 10.5-19.1
Female 532 466 86.0 81.9-89.3 66 14.0 10.7-18.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 627 586 91.8 88.7-94.2 41 8.2 5.8-11.3
Non-Hispanic Black 178 149 81.1 73.1-87.2 29 18.9 12.8-26.9
Other 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 331 272 79.4 73.5-84.2 59 20.6 15.8-26.5
45-64 334 281 85.5 80.7-89.2 53 14.5 10.8-19.3
65+ 254 251 99.1 97.0-99.7 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 308 236 76.3 70.2-81.5 72 23.7 18.5-29.8
Some College + 615 572 91.9 88.7-94.2 43 8.1 5.8-11.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 394 318 78.5 73.0-83.1 76 21.5 16.9-27.0
$50,000+ 374 355 93.4 89.4-95.9 19 6.6 4.1-10.6

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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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