2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

Immunization

A pneumonia shot or pneumococcal vaccine is usually given only once or twice in a person’s lifetime and is different from the flu shot.
Have you ever had a pneumonia shot?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,184 1,692 34.7 32.9-36.4 2,492 65.3 63.6-67.1
Medicaid Region 2 598 257 36.5 32.3-40.9 341 63.5 59.1-67.7
GENDER
Male 271 102 30.8 25.0-37.3 169 69.2 62.7-75.0
Female 327 155 41.5 35.7-47.6 172 58.5 52.4-64.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 446 198 37.4 32.5-42.6 248 62.6 57.4-67.5
Non-Hispanic Black 100 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 177 32 17.6 12.1-25.0 145 82.4 75.0-87.9
45-64 219 65 28.8 22.6-35.7 154 71.2 64.3-77.4
65+ 192 154 77.3 68.8-84.0 38 22.7 16.0-31.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 211 103 40.5 33.3-48.1 108 59.5 51.9-66.7
Some Post-H.S. 181 72 33.7 26.6-41.6 109 66.3 58.4-73.4
College Graduate 204 80 33.4 26.7-40.8 124 66.6 59.2-73.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 251 116 41.1 34.4-48.3 135 58.9 51.7-65.6
$50,000+ 228 83 30.0 23.9-36.9 145 70.0 63.1-76.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 58 39.7 30.0-50.2 *** *** ***

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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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