2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,639 893 14.0 12.9-15.2 4,746 86.0 84.8-87.1
Medicaid Region 3 906 128 14.4 11.8-17.5 778 85.6 82.5-88.2
GENDER
Male 417 41 10.0 6.8-14.6 376 90.0 85.4-93.2
Female 489 87 18.5 14.7-23.0 402 81.5 77.0-85.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 605 93 16.5 13.2-20.5 512 83.5 79.5-86.8
Non-Hispanic Black 161 24 14.1 8.2-23.2 137 85.9 76.8-91.8
Other 140 11 5.6 3.0-10.2 129 94.4 89.8-97.0
AGE
18-44 331 15 6.7 3.8-11.7 316 93.3 88.3-96.2
45-64 312 33 12.6 8.7-18.0 279 87.4 82.0-91.3
65+ 239 77 35.3 28.2-43.2 162 64.7 56.8-71.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 306 70 22.4 17.1-28.7 236 77.6 71.3-82.9
Some Post-H.S. 247 37 13.4 9.4-18.8 210 86.6 81.2-90.6
College Graduate 350 21 4.7 3.0- 7.4 329 95.3 92.6-97.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 311 69 21.7 16.5-28.1 242 78.3 71.9-83.5
$50,000+ 406 26 6.4 4.1- 9.8 380 93.6 90.2-95.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 189 33 18.3 12.5-25.8 156 81.7 74.2-87.5

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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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