2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Health Status

General Health Indicator for Healthy North Carolina 2020

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  Total
Respond.^		 Excellent/Vg/Good Fair/Poor
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,712 3,722 80.9 79.4-82.3 990 19.1 17.7-20.6
Medicaid Region 5 818 605 74.4 70.6-78.0 213 25.6 22.0-29.4
GENDER
Male 382 278 74.2 68.2-79.3 104 25.8 20.7-31.8
Female 436 327 74.7 69.3-79.4 109 25.3 20.6-30.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 505 388 76.5 71.7-80.6 117 23.5 19.4-28.3
Non-Hispanic Black 162 114 73.8 64.2-81.6 48 26.2 18.4-35.8
Other 151 103 66.9 56.2-76.1 48 33.1 23.9-43.8
AGE
18-44 293 248 84.7 79.5-88.8 45 15.3 11.2-20.5
45-64 260 186 69.0 60.9-76.1 74 31.0 23.9-39.1
65+ 246 154 59.1 51.2-66.6 92 40.9 33.4-48.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 311 188 61.9 55.0-68.4 123 38.1 31.6-45.0
Some Post-H.S. 250 192 78.7 72.3-84.0 58 21.3 16.0-27.7
College Graduate 256 224 90.4 86.3-93.4 32 9.6 6.6-13.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 410 261 64.2 58.4-69.6 149 35.8 30.4-41.6
$50,000+ 255 229 89.6 84.2-93.3 26 10.4 6.7-15.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 105 72.6 61.1-81.7 38 27.4 18.3-38.9

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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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