2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 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 6 426 60 14.1 10.2-19.3 366 85.9 80.7-89.8
GENDER
Male 204 26 12.8 7.6-20.7 178 87.2 79.3-92.4
Female 222 34 15.4 10.2-22.8 188 84.6 77.2-89.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 246 25 10.8 6.6-17.1 221 89.2 82.9-93.4
Non-Hispanic Black 110 19 17.0 9.1-29.4 91 83.0 70.6-90.9
Other 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 177 26 14.7 9.4-22.3 151 85.3 77.7-90.6
45-64 137 28 20.7 12.4-32.6 109 79.3 67.4-87.6
65+ 101 *** *** *** 97 98.0 94.3-99.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 153 27 18.0 10.7-28.7 126 82.0 71.3-89.3
Some Post-H.S. 133 20 14.1 8.6-22.4 113 85.9 77.6-91.4
College Graduate 140 13 7.8 4.1-14.3 127 92.2 85.7-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 45 20.0 14.4-27.0 168 80.0 73.0-85.6
$50,000+ 135 *** *** *** 129 96.6 91.9-98.6
Don't know/Not Sure 76 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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