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2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 691 104 14.1 11.4-17.4 587 85.9 82.6-88.6
GENDER
Male 312 46 13.8 9.7-19.3 266 86.2 80.7-90.3
Female 379 58 14.4 11.0-18.6 321 85.6 81.4-89.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 400 44 12.0 8.5-16.6 356 88.0 83.4-91.5
Non-Hispanic Black 169 30 15.4 10.5-21.9 139 84.6 78.1-89.5
Other 122 30 21.1 14.2-30.3 92 78.9 69.7-85.8
AGE
18-44 279 54 15.8 11.8-20.8 225 84.2 79.2-88.2
45-64 257 39 16.9 11.7-23.8 218 83.1 76.2-88.3
65+ 143 *** *** *** 134 94.5 88.6-97.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 193 36 17.8 12.2-25.3 157 82.2 74.7-87.8
Some Post-H.S. 195 40 16.4 11.7-22.3 155 83.6 77.7-88.3
College Graduate 302 28 8.2 5.5-12.0 274 91.8 88.0-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 223 56 24.7 18.5-32.3 167 75.3 67.7-81.5
$50,000+ 307 26 6.9 4.6-10.5 281 93.1 89.5-95.4
Don't know/Not Sure 144 22 13.6 8.6-20.8 122 86.4 79.2-91.4

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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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