2020 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 5,646 367 6.2 5.5- 7.1 5,279 93.8 92.9-94.5
Medicaid Region 5 1,348 110 8.1 6.4-10.2 1,238 91.9 89.8-93.6
GENDER
Male 598 45 7.0 4.9- 9.9 553 93.0 90.1-95.1
Female 750 65 9.1 6.6-12.3 685 90.9 87.7-93.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 782 56 7.6 5.5-10.4 726 92.4 89.6-94.5
Non-Hispanic Black 306 34 11.1 7.2-16.6 272 88.9 83.4-92.8
Other 260 20 5.9 3.5- 9.8 240 94.1 90.2-96.5
AGE
18-44 439 18 5.4 3.2- 9.0 421 94.6 91.0-96.8
45-64 444 37 8.6 6.0-12.1 407 91.4 87.9-94.0
65+ 429 54 13.1 9.3-18.1 375 86.9 81.9-90.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 500 57 10.7 7.7-14.6 443 89.3 85.4-92.3
Some Post-H.S. 392 37 8.4 5.6-12.4 355 91.6 87.6-94.4
College Graduate 446 15 3.3 1.8- 6.0 431 96.7 94.0-98.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 603 67 10.5 7.7-14.0 536 89.5 86.0-92.3
$50,000+ 479 18 4.0 2.3- 6.9 461 96.0 93.1-97.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 266 25 10.0 6.0-16.2 241 90.0 83.8-94.0

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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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