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 4,593 377 7.3 6.4- 8.2 4,216 92.7 91.8-93.6
Medicaid Region 5 796 86 9.9 7.6-12.9 710 90.1 87.1-92.4
GENDER
Male 370 35 8.8 5.9-13.0 335 91.2 87.0-94.1
Female 426 51 11.0 7.8-15.4 375 89.0 84.6-92.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 495 55 11.2 8.1-15.3 440 88.8 84.7-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 155 17 7.9 4.4-13.8 138 92.1 86.2-95.6
Other 146 14 7.8 4.1-14.4 132 92.2 85.6-95.9
AGE
18-44 283 17 4.9 2.9- 8.3 266 95.1 91.7-97.1
45-64 253 22 9.2 5.4-15.2 231 90.8 84.8-94.6
65+ 243 45 21.2 14.8-29.4 198 78.8 70.6-85.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 299 35 11.2 7.3-16.7 264 88.8 83.3-92.7
Some Post-H.S. 243 36 12.3 8.4-17.8 207 87.7 82.2-91.6
College Graduate 253 15 4.3 2.5- 7.4 238 95.7 92.6-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 405 53 13.0 9.3-17.8 352 87.0 82.2-90.7
$50,000+ 252 12 3.9 2.1- 7.2 240 96.1 92.8-97.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 139 21 12.6 7.1-21.3 118 87.4 78.7-92.9

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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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