2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 851 78 8.0 6.1-10.3 773 92.0 89.7-93.9
GENDER
Male 389 36 8.1 5.4-11.9 353 91.9 88.1-94.6
Female 462 42 7.9 5.5-11.1 420 92.1 88.9-94.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 540 40 6.8 4.6- 9.7 500 93.2 90.3-95.4
Non-Hispanic Black 230 33 12.1 8.1-17.7 197 87.9 82.3-91.9
Other 81 *** *** *** 76 97.1 92.8-98.9
AGE
18-44 263 11 4.9 2.5- 9.4 252 95.1 90.6-97.5
45-64 308 41 11.8 8.4-16.4 267 88.2 83.6-91.6
65+ 269 25 9.0 5.8-13.7 244 91.0 86.3-94.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 343 45 11.6 8.2-16.4 298 88.4 83.6-91.8
Some Post-H.S. 255 19 5.1 3.1- 8.3 236 94.9 91.7-96.9
College Graduate 252 14 5.1 2.9- 9.0 238 94.9 91.0-97.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 421 54 11.6 8.3-15.9 367 88.4 84.1-91.7
$50,000+ 273 *** *** *** 265 97.0 93.8-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 157 16 7.6 4.4-12.8 141 92.4 87.2-95.6

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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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