2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 536 455 83.6 79.5-87.0 81 16.4 13.0-20.5
GENDER
Male 257 203 77.8 71.2-83.3 54 22.2 16.7-28.8
Female 279 252 89.2 83.9-93.0 27 10.8 7.0-16.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 329 88.0 83.3-91.5 35 12.0 8.5-16.7
Non-Hispanic Black 70 61 86.7 74.2-93.6 *** *** ***
Other 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 183 138 77.5 70.0-83.6 45 22.5 16.4-30.0
45-64 166 131 80.5 73.1-86.3 35 19.5 13.7-26.9
65+ 178 178 100 . - . *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 156 72.2 64.6-78.7 56 27.8 21.3-35.4
Some Post-H.S. 167 152 92.7 87.5-95.8 15 7.3 4.2-12.5
College Graduate 156 147 93.6 87.2-96.9 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 271 218 79.9 73.7-84.9 53 20.1 15.1-26.3
$50,000+ 161 156 96.6 91.0-98.7 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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