2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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.
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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 3 632 220 30.1 26.2-34.3 412 69.9 65.7-73.8
GENDER
Male 281 99 29.7 24.1-36.0 182 70.3 64.0-75.9
Female 351 121 30.4 25.2-36.1 230 69.6 63.9-74.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 416 164 34.8 29.7-40.2 252 65.2 59.8-70.3
Non-Hispanic Black 117 37 24.0 17.0-32.8 80 76.0 67.2-83.0
Other 99 19 17.1 10.5-26.5 80 82.9 73.5-89.5
AGE
18-44 234 39 17.4 12.7-23.3 195 82.6 76.7-87.3
45-64 217 54 24.5 18.6-31.5 163 75.5 68.5-81.4
65+ 168 126 73.2 62.6-81.6 42 26.8 18.4-37.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 220 74 28.6 22.5-35.6 146 71.4 64.4-77.5
Some Post-H.S. 195 76 33.6 26.8-41.1 119 66.4 58.9-73.2
College Graduate 214 69 27.5 21.5-34.4 145 72.5 65.6-78.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 257 96 31.6 25.5-38.3 161 68.4 61.7-74.5
$50,000+ 258 85 29.5 23.8-35.9 173 70.5 64.1-76.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 117 39 28.2 19.7-38.7 78 71.8 61.3-80.3

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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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