2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 558 78 13.7 10.7-17.3 480 86.3 82.7-89.3
GENDER
Male 241 33 12.4 8.5-17.6 208 87.6 82.4-91.5
Female 317 45 14.9 10.7-20.2 272 85.1 79.8-89.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 343 32 10.0 6.9-14.4 311 90.0 85.6-93.1
Non-Hispanic Black 146 29 18.2 12.1-26.6 117 81.8 73.4-87.9
Other 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 208 36 18.3 13.1-24.9 172 81.7 75.1-86.9
45-64 184 29 11.4 7.6-16.7 155 88.6 83.3-92.4
65+ 155 12 8.0 3.9-15.7 143 92.0 84.3-96.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 184 27 12.3 7.9-18.6 157 87.7 81.4-92.1
Some Post-H.S. 150 31 20.5 14.2-28.6 119 79.5 71.4-85.8
College Graduate 222 19 8.2 5.0-13.2 203 91.8 86.8-95.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 53 21.9 16.3-28.6 176 78.1 71.4-83.7
$50,000+ 224 15 6.7 3.9-11.3 209 93.3 88.7-96.1
Don't know/Not Sure 102 *** *** *** 92 88.4 77.7-94.3

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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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