2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,162 742 15.3 14.1-16.5 3,420 84.7 83.5-85.9
Medicaid Region 5 534 121 17.4 14.1-21.4 413 82.6 78.6-85.9
GENDER
Male 211 38 14.0 9.5-20.1 173 86.0 79.9-90.5
Female 323 83 20.6 16.1-26.1 240 79.4 73.9-83.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 253 50 16.7 12.2-22.5 203 83.3 77.5-87.8
Non-Hispanic Black 153 38 17.6 12.2-24.8 115 82.4 75.2-87.8
Other 128 33 20.2 14.0-28.2 95 79.8 71.8-86.0
AGE
18-44 201 13 5.5 2.6-11.4 188 94.5 88.6-97.4
45-64 181 58 28.5 21.7-36.5 123 71.5 63.5-78.3
65+ 146 50 27.3 19.5-36.8 96 72.7 63.2-80.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 231 52 16.9 12.1-23.1 179 83.1 76.9-87.9
Some Post-H.S. 160 46 21.3 15.2-29.1 114 78.7 70.9-84.8
College Graduate 140 23 13.2 8.3-20.2 117 86.8 79.8-91.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 257 71 21.9 16.7-28.2 186 78.1 71.8-83.3
$50,000+ 162 22 11.1 6.6-18.0 140 88.9 82.0-93.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 115 28 17.3 10.8-26.5 87 82.7 73.5-89.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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