2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,626 288 5.4 4.7- 6.3 4,338 94.6 93.7-95.3
Medicaid Region 1 753 63 8.6 5.9-12.3 690 91.4 87.7-94.1
GENDER
Male 351 31 8.7 4.7-15.4 320 91.3 84.6-95.3
Female 402 32 8.5 5.5-12.8 370 91.5 87.2-94.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 651 54 9.1 6.1-13.3 597 90.9 86.7-93.9
Non-Hispanic Black 30 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 72 *** *** *** 65 95.0 87.2-98.2
AGE
18-44 193 15 6.4 3.3-11.9 178 93.6 88.1-96.7
45-64 259 21 9.6 4.7-18.6 238 90.4 81.4-95.3
65+ 284 26 10.9 6.2-18.3 258 89.1 81.7-93.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 267 31 11.5 6.7-18.9 236 88.5 81.1-93.3
Some Post-H.S. 224 17 8.4 4.6-15.0 207 91.6 85.0-95.4
College Graduate 262 15 3.5 1.9- 6.3 247 96.5 93.7-98.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 336 39 13.5 8.6-20.6 297 86.5 79.4-91.4
$50,000+ 258 11 2.9 1.3- 6.0 247 97.1 94.0-98.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 159 13 7.4 3.2-16.2 146 92.6 83.8-96.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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