2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,633 433 7.9 7.0- 8.9 4,200 92.1 91.1-93.0
Medicaid Region 5 802 88 10.4 8.1-13.3 714 89.6 86.7-91.9
GENDER
Male 372 53 12.4 9.1-16.6 319 87.6 83.4-90.9
Female 430 35 8.7 5.7-13.0 395 91.3 87.0-94.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 498 57 11.0 8.1-14.8 441 89.0 85.2-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 157 14 7.7 4.3-13.4 143 92.3 86.6-95.7
Other 147 17 12.4 6.2-23.2 130 87.6 76.8-93.8
AGE
18-44 285 13 4.0 2.1- 7.2 272 96.0 92.8-97.9
45-64 256 23 11.1 6.9-17.4 233 88.9 82.6-93.1
65+ 245 51 23.2 17.0-30.9 194 76.8 69.1-83.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 302 38 10.8 7.2-15.8 264 89.2 84.2-92.8
Some Post-H.S. 245 35 14.4 10.0-20.4 210 85.6 79.6-90.0
College Graduate 255 15 4.0 2.2- 7.1 240 96.0 92.9-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 408 44 10.2 7.1-14.5 364 89.8 85.5-92.9
$50,000+ 254 20 7.6 4.7-12.1 234 92.4 87.9-95.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 140 24 15.9 9.6-25.2 116 84.1 74.8-90.4

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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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