2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 536 85 17.4 13.9-21.7 451 82.6 78.3-86.1
GENDER
Male 257 42 18.3 13.1-24.9 215 81.7 75.1-86.9
Female 279 43 16.6 12.1-22.3 236 83.4 77.7-87.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 49 16.0 11.9-21.2 315 84.0 78.8-88.1
Non-Hispanic Black 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 102 22 19.2 12.1-29.1 80 80.8 70.9-87.9
AGE
18-44 183 37 17.9 12.5-24.8 146 82.1 75.2-87.5
45-64 166 37 24.2 17.4-32.4 129 75.8 67.6-82.6
65+ 178 *** *** *** 169 92.8 83.4-97.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 212 42 21.0 15.1-28.4 170 79.0 71.6-84.9
Some Post-H.S. 167 23 14.9 9.7-22.3 144 85.1 77.7-90.3
College Graduate 156 19 13.1 8.2-20.5 137 86.9 79.5-91.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 271 50 20.4 15.1-26.9 221 79.6 73.1-84.9
$50,000+ 161 14 8.1 4.5-14.2 147 91.9 85.8-95.5
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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