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 4,626 288 5.4 4.7- 6.3 4,338 94.6 93.7-95.3
Medicaid Region 6 854 72 8.3 6.1-11.2 782 91.7 88.8-93.9
GENDER
Male 390 28 5.9 3.8- 9.1 362 94.1 90.9-96.2
Female 464 44 10.5 6.9-15.7 420 89.5 84.3-93.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 541 40 8.4 5.6-12.3 501 91.6 87.7-94.4
Non-Hispanic Black 232 24 6.5 4.0-10.3 208 93.5 89.7-96.0
Other 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 263 15 7.1 3.9-12.5 248 92.9 87.5-96.1
45-64 309 34 8.6 5.3-13.6 275 91.4 86.4-94.7
65+ 271 23 10.8 6.5-17.5 248 89.2 82.5-93.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 346 44 11.7 7.8-17.2 302 88.3 82.8-92.2
Some Post-H.S. 255 20 6.9 3.9-11.9 235 93.1 88.1-96.1
College Graduate 252 *** *** *** 244 96.9 92.9-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 424 48 9.4 6.5-13.5 376 90.6 86.5-93.5
$50,000+ 273 11 4.9 2.4- 9.8 262 95.1 90.2-97.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 157 13 11.4 5.3-22.8 144 88.6 77.2-94.7

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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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