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 4,610 829 14.9 13.7-16.2 3,781 85.1 83.8-86.3
Medicaid Region 6 851 169 16.3 13.6-19.3 682 83.7 80.7-86.4
GENDER
Male 388 68 14.9 11.3-19.5 320 85.1 80.5-88.7
Female 463 101 17.5 13.8-21.9 362 82.5 78.1-86.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 541 95 15.0 11.7-19.0 446 85.0 81.0-88.3
Non-Hispanic Black 229 60 20.7 15.4-27.2 169 79.3 72.8-84.6
Other 81 14 10.5 5.7-18.8 67 89.5 81.2-94.3
AGE
18-44 263 17 6.9 4.2-11.3 246 93.1 88.7-95.8
45-64 308 85 24.3 19.2-30.4 223 75.7 69.6-80.8
65+ 269 64 24.4 18.3-31.8 205 75.6 68.2-81.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 343 92 20.5 16.1-25.8 251 79.5 74.2-83.9
Some Post-H.S. 255 45 14.4 10.3-19.8 210 85.6 80.2-89.7
College Graduate 252 32 10.1 6.8-14.9 220 89.9 85.1-93.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 422 115 23.1 18.6-28.3 307 76.9 71.7-81.4
$50,000+ 272 24 6.8 4.1-10.8 248 93.2 89.2-95.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 157 30 15.5 10.3-22.6 127 84.5 77.4-89.7

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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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