2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Chronic Health Conditions

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,823 721 12.3 11.3-13.4 5,102 87.7 86.6-88.7
Medicaid Region 1 686 93 12.5 10.1-15.5 593 87.5 84.5-89.9
GENDER
Male 300 29 7.1 4.7-10.5 271 92.9 89.5-95.3
Female 386 64 17.6 13.6-22.6 322 82.4 77.4-86.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 564 78 12.4 9.8-15.6 486 87.6 84.4-90.2
Non-Hispanic Black 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 98 *** *** *** 88 91.0 82.6-95.6
AGE
18-44 215 36 16.5 11.7-22.7 179 83.5 77.3-88.3
45-64 219 23 8.4 5.3-13.0 196 91.6 87.0-94.7
65+ 238 33 12.6 8.6-17.9 205 87.4 82.1-91.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 31 11.9 8.2-17.0 231 88.1 83.0-91.8
Some Post-H.S. 191 27 13.4 9.1-19.3 164 86.6 80.7-90.9
College Graduate 232 35 12.6 8.9-17.7 197 87.4 82.3-91.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 318 52 15.1 11.2-20.0 266 84.9 80.0-88.8
$50,000+ 232 20 7.3 4.4-12.0 212 92.7 88.0-95.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 123 20 16.4 10.3-25.1 103 83.6 74.9-89.7

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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