2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,608 560 12.3 11.2-13.6 4,048 87.7 86.4-88.8
Medicaid Region 5 799 117 15.6 12.6-19.2 682 84.4 80.8-87.4
GENDER
Male 371 48 13.1 9.6-17.6 323 86.9 82.4-90.4
Female 428 69 17.9 13.5-23.5 359 82.1 76.5-86.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 499 73 16.3 12.5-20.9 426 83.7 79.1-87.5
Non-Hispanic Black 154 23 13.5 8.3-21.1 131 86.5 78.9-91.7
Other 146 21 16.1 9.0-27.3 125 83.9 72.7-91.0
AGE
18-44 285 39 15.2 10.7-21.0 246 84.8 79.0-89.3
45-64 254 38 15.8 10.6-22.9 216 84.2 77.1-89.4
65+ 243 39 17.0 11.8-23.8 204 83.0 76.2-88.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 300 68 23.5 17.7-30.4 232 76.5 69.6-82.3
Some Post-H.S. 244 38 14.3 10.1-20.0 206 85.7 80.0-89.9
College Graduate 254 11 3.8 2.1- 7.1 243 96.2 92.9-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 406 81 21.8 17.1-27.4 325 78.2 72.6-82.9
$50,000+ 253 15 7.0 4.0-11.9 238 93.0 88.1-96.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 140 21 14.7 8.1-25.0 119 85.3 75.0-91.9

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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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