2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

Respiratory Health

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,772 719 18.4 16.9-20.1 3,053 81.6 79.9-83.1
Medicaid Region 4 660 117 17.6 14.4-21.3 543 82.4 78.7-85.6
GENDER
Male 297 50 17.6 13.0-23.6 247 82.4 76.4-87.0
Female 363 67 17.5 13.5-22.4 296 82.5 77.6-86.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 389 69 18.2 14.0-23.3 320 81.8 76.7-86.0
Non-Hispanic Black 165 36 19.2 13.3-26.8 129 80.8 73.2-86.7
Other 106 12 11.5 6.2-20.2 94 88.5 79.8-93.8
AGE
18-44 239 32 15.5 10.8-21.9 207 84.5 78.1-89.2
45-64 239 37 16.1 11.4-22.3 202 83.9 77.7-88.6
65+ 171 47 26.0 18.9-34.6 124 74.0 65.4-81.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 220 48 23.3 17.4-30.5 172 76.7 69.5-82.6
Some Post-H.S. 146 35 19.2 13.0-27.6 111 80.8 72.4-87.0
College Graduate 293 34 10.6 7.2-15.3 259 89.4 84.7-92.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 249 59 26.2 20.1-33.3 190 73.8 66.7-79.9
$50,000+ 281 28 9.0 5.8-13.5 253 91.0 86.5-94.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 130 30 21.5 14.1-31.3 100 78.5 68.7-85.9

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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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