2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Immunization

A pneumonia shot or pneumococcal vaccine is usually given only once or twice in a person’s lifetime and is different from the flu shot.
Have you ever had a pneumonia shot?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,184 1,692 34.7 32.9-36.4 2,492 65.3 63.6-67.1
Medicaid Region 5 724 292 36.6 32.5-41.0 432 63.4 59.0-67.5
GENDER
Male 333 128 33.8 27.7-40.5 205 66.2 59.5-72.3
Female 391 164 39.2 33.6-45.1 227 60.8 54.9-66.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 448 196 39.8 34.7-45.2 252 60.2 54.8-65.3
Non-Hispanic Black 143 62 38.7 29.2-49.2 81 61.3 50.8-70.8
Other 133 34 19.3 12.5-28.5 99 80.7 71.5-87.5
AGE
18-44 239 44 18.2 13.3-24.5 195 81.8 75.5-86.7
45-64 240 67 30.6 23.0-39.4 173 69.4 60.6-77.0
65+ 228 176 79.0 71.4-85.0 52 21.0 15.0-28.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 271 99 35.7 28.9-43.2 172 64.3 56.8-71.1
Some Post-H.S. 226 98 37.4 30.1-45.2 128 62.6 54.8-69.9
College Graduate 226 95 37.3 30.7-44.5 131 62.7 55.5-69.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 372 147 37.1 31.4-43.1 225 62.9 56.9-68.6
$50,000+ 230 92 34.2 27.3-41.8 138 65.8 58.2-72.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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