2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Immunization

A pneumonia shot or pneumococcal vaccine is usually given only once or twice in a person’s lifetime and is different from the flu shot.
Have you ever had a pneumonia shot?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,184 1,692 34.7 32.9-36.4 2,492 65.3 63.6-67.1
Region 8 462 194 38.0 32.7-43.6 268 62.0 56.4-67.3
GENDER
Male 212 81 34.3 26.4-43.2 131 65.7 56.8-73.6
Female 250 113 41.3 34.4-48.5 137 58.7 51.5-65.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 312 136 36.0 30.3-42.1 176 64.0 57.9-69.7
Non-Hispanic Black 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 90 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 140 27 23.8 15.3-35.1 113 76.2 64.9-84.7
45-64 149 42 28.8 21.1-38.1 107 71.2 61.9-78.9
65+ 164 122 74.6 64.7-82.4 42 25.4 17.6-35.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 63 33.3 25.7-42.0 114 66.7 58.0-74.3
Some Post-H.S. 148 68 43.3 33.5-53.6 80 56.7 46.4-66.5
College Graduate 136 63 39.3 30.8-48.6 73 60.7 51.4-69.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 237 95 37.0 30.1-44.5 142 63.0 55.5-69.9
$50,000+ 143 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 82 *** *** *** 49 70.3 59.0-79.6

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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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