2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 868 44 4.6 3.3- 6.5 824 95.4 93.5-96.7
GENDER
Male 409 15 3.8 2.1- 6.8 394 96.2 93.2-97.9
Female 459 29 5.4 3.6- 8.2 430 94.6 91.8-96.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 531 17 3.0 1.7- 5.1 514 97.0 94.9-98.3
Non-Hispanic Black 197 20 9.5 5.7-15.5 177 90.5 84.5-94.3
Other 140 *** *** *** 133 96.5 92.3-98.5
AGE
18-44 350 11 3.6 1.9- 6.5 339 96.4 93.5-98.1
45-64 288 17 4.8 2.8- 8.2 271 95.2 91.8-97.2
65+ 213 14 6.6 3.4-12.7 199 93.4 87.3-96.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 268 22 7.2 4.5-11.3 246 92.8 88.7-95.5
Some Post-H.S. 187 15 6.6 3.6-11.6 172 93.4 88.4-96.4
College Graduate 412 *** *** *** 405 98.9 97.4-99.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 307 27 8.5 5.4-13.1 280 91.5 86.9-94.6
$50,000+ 389 *** *** *** 382 98.4 96.6-99.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 172 *** *** *** 162 94.8 89.7-97.4

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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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