2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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.
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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 6 771 333 39.2 34.9-43.7 438 60.8 56.3-65.1
GENDER
Male 343 126 34.9 28.5-41.9 217 65.1 58.1-71.5
Female 428 207 43.1 37.4-49.0 221 56.9 51.0-62.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 489 221 39.6 34.4-45.1 268 60.4 54.9-65.6
Non-Hispanic Black 211 86 39.5 31.0-48.7 125 60.5 51.3-69.0
Other 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 218 41 19.2 13.2-27.0 177 80.8 73.0-86.8
45-64 287 96 34.3 27.7-41.5 191 65.7 58.5-72.3
65+ 255 191 80.8 75.0-85.5 64 19.2 14.5-25.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 304 128 39.5 32.8-46.5 176 60.5 53.5-67.2
Some Post-H.S. 227 97 38.1 30.4-46.6 130 61.9 53.4-69.6
College Graduate 239 108 41.0 33.9-48.4 131 59.0 51.6-66.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 376 154 36.2 30.5-42.4 222 63.8 57.6-69.5
$50,000+ 257 118 41.2 33.5-49.4 139 58.8 50.6-66.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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