2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Immunization

A pneumonia shot or pneumococcal vaccine is usually given only once or twice in a person’s lifetime and is different from the flu shot.
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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,184 1,692 34.7 32.9-36.4 2,492 65.3 63.6-67.1
Region 4 622 218 30.2 26.3-34.4 404 69.8 65.6-73.7
GENDER
Male 278 99 30.0 24.3-36.4 179 70.0 63.6-75.7
Female 344 119 30.4 25.2-36.1 225 69.6 63.9-74.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 163 35.2 30.1-40.7 248 64.8 59.3-69.9
Non-Hispanic Black 114 36 23.8 16.8-32.6 78 76.2 67.4-83.2
Other 97 19 17.3 10.7-26.8 78 82.7 73.2-89.3
AGE
18-44 231 38 17.0 12.4-23.1 193 83.0 76.9-87.6
45-64 213 54 24.8 18.8-31.8 159 75.2 68.2-81.2
65+ 166 125 73.3 62.6-81.9 41 26.7 18.1-37.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 218 73 28.6 22.5-35.7 145 71.4 64.3-77.5
Some Post-H.S. 193 75 33.3 26.5-40.9 118 66.7 59.1-73.5
College Graduate 208 69 28.1 22.0-35.2 139 71.9 64.8-78.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 250 94 31.4 25.3-38.1 156 68.6 61.9-74.7
$50,000+ 256 85 29.6 23.9-36.1 171 70.4 63.9-76.1
Don't know/Not Sure 116 39 28.9 20.2-39.5 77 71.1 60.5-79.8

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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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