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 4,610 829 14.9 13.7-16.2 3,781 85.1 83.8-86.3
Medicaid Region 1 751 154 18.7 15.2-22.6 597 81.3 77.4-84.8
GENDER
Male 350 51 13.3 9.3-18.6 299 86.7 81.4-90.7
Female 401 103 23.9 18.7-29.9 298 76.1 70.1-81.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 650 140 19.9 16.1-24.3 510 80.1 75.7-83.9
Non-Hispanic Black 29 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 72 *** *** *** 63 90.0 78.7-95.7
AGE
18-44 192 15 7.7 4.3-13.5 177 92.3 86.5-95.7
45-64 257 54 22.8 16.4-30.8 203 77.2 69.2-83.6
65+ 285 81 27.7 21.0-35.4 204 72.3 64.6-79.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 263 68 18.7 13.8-24.8 195 81.3 75.2-86.2
Some Post-H.S. 226 49 22.5 15.8-31.0 177 77.5 69.0-84.2
College Graduate 262 37 13.4 8.9-19.7 225 86.6 80.3-91.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 334 88 22.9 17.7-29.0 246 77.1 71.0-82.3
$50,000+ 258 28 10.5 6.4-16.6 230 89.5 83.4-93.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 159 38 22.9 14.8-33.7 121 77.1 66.3-85.2

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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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