2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 773 287 32.5 28.9-36.4 486 67.5 63.6-71.1
GENDER
Male 359 124 31.1 26.1-36.7 235 68.9 63.3-73.9
Female 414 163 33.8 28.7-39.3 251 66.2 60.7-71.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 480 200 36.3 31.6-41.2 280 63.7 58.8-68.4
Non-Hispanic Black 179 61 29.4 22.4-37.6 118 70.6 62.4-77.6
Other 114 26 19.4 12.9-28.2 88 80.6 71.8-87.1
AGE
18-44 294 59 18.6 14.2-23.8 235 81.4 76.2-85.8
45-64 258 68 26.5 20.8-33.0 190 73.5 67.0-79.2
65+ 207 156 73.9 65.4-80.9 51 26.1 19.1-34.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 83 31.7 25.4-38.7 156 68.3 61.3-74.6
Some Post-H.S. 169 67 34.4 27.0-42.6 102 65.6 57.4-73.0
College Graduate 364 137 32.2 27.2-37.7 227 67.8 62.3-72.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 277 109 37.6 31.0-44.6 168 62.4 55.4-69.0
$50,000+ 348 116 27.9 23.1-33.2 232 72.1 66.8-76.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 148 62 34.6 26.4-43.8 86 65.4 56.2-73.6

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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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