2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,721 660 14.5 13.2-15.9 4,061 85.5 84.1-86.8
Medicaid Region 5 821 108 13.2 10.6-16.4 713 86.8 83.6-89.4
GENDER
Male 383 31 7.7 5.2-11.3 352 92.3 88.7-94.8
Female 438 77 18.4 14.2-23.4 361 81.6 76.6-85.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 506 51 9.7 7.2-13.0 455 90.3 87.0-92.8
Non-Hispanic Black 163 26 13.7 8.6-21.0 137 86.3 79.0-91.4
Other 152 31 27.5 18.4-38.9 121 72.5 61.1-81.6
AGE
18-44 294 33 11.5 7.9-16.5 261 88.5 83.5-92.1
45-64 261 45 17.6 12.5-24.3 216 82.4 75.7-87.5
65+ 247 29 11.7 7.7-17.5 218 88.3 82.5-92.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 312 62 19.3 14.4-25.3 250 80.7 74.7-85.6
Some Post-H.S. 250 29 10.0 6.7-14.7 221 90.0 85.3-93.3
College Graduate 258 17 7.3 4.0-12.8 241 92.7 87.2-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 413 70 17.7 13.5-22.7 343 82.3 77.3-86.5
$50,000+ 255 19 8.6 5.1-14.4 236 91.4 85.6-94.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 18 9.8 5.5-16.7 125 90.2 83.3-94.5

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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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