2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 4,279 647 15.9 14.7-17.3 3,632 84.1 82.7-85.3
Region 5 621 90 14.2 11.5-17.5 531 85.8 82.5-88.5
GENDER
Male 283 38 13.4 9.6-18.3 245 86.6 81.7-90.4
Female 338 52 14.9 11.2-19.6 286 85.1 80.4-88.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 377 42 11.2 8.1-15.2 335 88.8 84.8-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 145 25 19.9 13.5-28.5 120 80.1 71.5-86.5
Other 99 23 19.6 12.8-28.9 76 80.4 71.1-87.2
AGE
18-44 251 44 16.8 12.4-22.4 207 83.2 77.6-87.6
45-64 195 34 15.8 11.1-22.0 161 84.2 78.0-88.9
65+ 166 12 7.0 3.7-12.7 154 93.0 87.3-96.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 180 41 19.0 13.7-25.6 139 81.0 74.4-86.3
Some Post-H.S. 157 30 17.4 12.0-24.5 127 82.6 75.5-88.0
College Graduate 281 19 6.7 4.2-10.6 262 93.3 89.4-95.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 210 46 21.8 16.3-28.6 164 78.2 71.4-83.7
$50,000+ 268 26 10.2 6.8-14.9 242 89.8 85.1-93.2
Don't know/Not Sure 135 18 11.5 7.1-18.3 117 88.5 81.7-92.9

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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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