2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,715 664 15.1 13.8-16.5 4,051 84.9 83.5-86.2
Region 4 710 100 15.8 12.8-19.4 610 84.2 80.6-87.2
GENDER
Male 330 34 11.7 8.1-16.7 296 88.3 83.3-91.9
Female 380 66 19.6 15.2-24.8 314 80.4 75.2-84.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 465 49 12.6 9.4-16.9 416 87.4 83.1-90.6
Non-Hispanic Black 133 25 21.0 13.9-30.4 108 79.0 69.6-86.1
Other 112 26 21.7 14.7-31.0 86 78.3 69.0-85.3
AGE
18-44 283 53 19.1 14.5-24.8 230 80.9 75.2-85.5
45-64 234 38 15.0 10.7-20.6 196 85.0 79.4-89.3
65+ 178 *** *** *** 170 90.8 78.7-96.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 245 44 18.5 13.3-25.0 201 81.5 75.0-86.7
Some Post-H.S. 217 40 19.2 14.0-25.8 177 80.8 74.2-86.0
College Graduate 243 16 6.8 4.0-11.4 227 93.2 88.6-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 273 63 26.2 20.5-33.0 210 73.8 67.0-79.5
$50,000+ 293 20 7.1 4.4-11.1 273 92.9 88.9-95.6
Don't know/Not Sure 135 15 13.9 7.7-23.9 120 86.1 76.1-92.3

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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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