2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,719 4,088 85.5 84.1-86.7 631 14.5 13.3-15.9
Region 5 557 493 88.6 85.2-91.3 64 11.4 8.7-14.8
GENDER
Male 240 215 90.2 85.3-93.6 25 9.8 6.4-14.7
Female 317 278 87.2 82.1-91.0 39 12.8 9.0-17.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 342 325 94.5 90.9-96.7 17 5.5 3.3- 9.1
Non-Hispanic Black 146 120 82.8 74.6-88.7 26 17.2 11.3-25.4
Other 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 207 166 81.0 74.4-86.2 41 19.0 13.8-25.6
45-64 184 164 92.3 87.8-95.3 20 7.7 4.7-12.2
65+ 155 153 98.7 93.6-99.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 183 147 83.4 76.8-88.4 36 16.6 11.6-23.2
Some Post-H.S. 149 130 86.8 79.3-91.8 19 13.2 8.2-20.7
College Graduate 223 214 96.6 93.0-98.4 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 228 186 81.2 74.6-86.4 42 18.8 13.6-25.4
$50,000+ 224 218 97.7 94.6-99.0 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 102 87 85.4 75.5-91.7 15 14.6 8.3-24.5

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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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