2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 622 82 15.2 11.7-19.3 540 84.8 80.7-88.3
GENDER
Male 310 35 12.3 8.5-17.4 275 87.7 82.6-91.5
Female 312 47 17.8 12.6-24.6 265 82.2 75.4-87.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 369 33 10.2 7.0-14.6 336 89.8 85.4-93.0
Non-Hispanic Black 145 29 23.7 15.3-34.7 116 76.3 65.3-84.7
Other 108 20 19.8 11.9-31.1 88 80.2 68.9-88.1
AGE
18-44 250 38 17.8 12.2-25.1 212 82.2 74.9-87.8
45-64 219 35 15.5 10.8-21.7 184 84.5 78.3-89.2
65+ 141 *** *** *** 134 92.3 82.0-96.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 202 47 21.8 16.0-29.0 155 78.2 71.0-84.0
Some Post-H.S. 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 291 16 5.6 3.3- 9.4 275 94.4 90.6-96.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 206 44 24.6 18.0-32.6 162 75.4 67.4-82.0
$50,000+ 277 17 8.6 4.4-15.9 260 91.4 84.1-95.6
Don't know/Not Sure 131 21 16.7 10.1-26.3 110 83.3 73.7-89.9

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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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