2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 9 & 10 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 9 & 10 701 97 15.1 11.9-19.0 604 84.9 81.0-88.1
GENDER
Male 307 41 14.8 10.2-20.8 266 85.2 79.2-89.8
Female 394 56 15.4 11.3-20.7 338 84.6 79.3-88.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 433 54 15.7 11.5-21.1 379 84.3 78.9-88.5
Non-Hispanic Black 206 32 14.1 9.3-20.8 174 85.9 79.2-90.7
Other 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 196 40 21.4 15.3-29.1 156 78.6 70.9-84.7
45-64 260 40 12.5 8.8-17.6 220 87.5 82.4-91.2
65+ 233 15 7.9 4.0-14.9 218 92.1 85.1-96.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 284 53 16.8 12.1-22.8 231 83.2 77.2-87.9
Some Post-H.S. 201 27 15.4 9.9-23.1 174 84.6 76.9-90.1
College Graduate 215 17 11.3 6.6-18.8 198 88.7 81.2-93.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 345 70 24.5 18.8-31.3 275 75.5 68.7-81.2
$50,000+ 225 *** *** *** 218 95.0 89.3-97.8
Don't know/Not Sure 129 19 11.1 6.1-19.5 110 88.9 80.5-93.9

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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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