2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of insurance coverage that pays for some or all of your routine dental care
including dental insurance prepaid plans such as HMOs or government plans such as Medicaid?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,581 1,916 56.2 54.1-58.2 1,665 43.8 41.8-45.9
Medicaid Region 5 642 345 56.0 51.1-60.7 297 44.0 39.3-48.9
GENDER
Male 285 150 54.8 47.5-61.9 135 45.2 38.1-52.5
Female 357 195 56.9 50.5-63.1 162 43.1 36.9-49.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 389 212 57.4 51.5-63.1 177 42.6 36.9-48.5
Non-Hispanic Black 131 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 197 119 61.2 53.1-68.6 78 38.8 31.4-46.9
45-64 233 143 64.6 56.1-72.3 90 35.4 27.7-43.9
65+ 204 80 35.9 28.6-43.9 124 64.1 56.1-71.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 243 91 43.5 35.7-51.7 152 56.5 48.3-64.3
Some Post-H.S. 204 111 56.6 48.2-64.5 93 43.4 35.5-51.8
College Graduate 194 143 78.0 71.3-83.6 51 22.0 16.4-28.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 342 140 42.1 35.8-48.6 202 57.9 51.4-64.2
$50,000+ 196 148 78.8 71.6-84.5 48 21.2 15.5-28.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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