2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 716 622 84.9 81.1-88.0 94 15.1 12.0-18.9
GENDER
Male 313 261 83.0 77.2-87.6 52 17.0 12.4-22.8
Female 403 361 86.7 81.5-90.6 42 13.3 9.4-18.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 405 373 89.3 84.7-92.6 32 10.7 7.4-15.3
Non-Hispanic Black 137 117 80.4 69.7-88.0 20 19.6 12.0-30.3
Other 174 132 70.3 60.5-78.5 42 29.7 21.5-39.5
AGE
18-44 229 182 82.6 76.4-87.4 47 17.4 12.6-23.6
45-64 253 209 78.9 71.4-84.8 44 21.1 15.2-28.6
65+ 231 228 97.9 91.6-99.5 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 308 240 76.3 69.7-81.9 68 23.7 18.1-30.3
Some College + 407 381 92.2 88.4-94.9 26 7.8 5.1-11.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 373 305 79.7 73.9-84.5 68 20.3 15.5-26.1
$50,000+ 204 197 96.3 91.7-98.4 *** *** ***

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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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