2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

A Pap test is a test for cancer of the cervix. Have you ever had a Pap test?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,028 2,820 90.1 88.4-91.5 208 9.9 8.5-11.6
Medicaid Region 5 735 687 89.2 85.4-92.2 48 10.8 7.8-14.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 429 407 91.1 86.3-94.3 22 8.9 5.7-13.7
Non-Hispanic Black 172 158 89.4 79.4-94.9 14 10.6 5.1-20.6
Other 134 122 82.6 70.5-90.4 12 17.4 9.6-29.5
AGE
18-44 230 197 80.1 72.7-85.9 33 19.9 14.1-27.3
45-64 237 232 97.4 93.7-99.0 *** *** ***
65+ 244 235 96.5 91.8-98.5 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 239 85.6 77.8-90.9 23 14.4 9.1-22.2
Some Post-H.S. 217 204 89.8 82.4-94.3 13 10.2 5.7-17.6
College Graduate 252 240 93.5 88.1-96.5 12 6.5 3.5-11.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 359 334 89.4 83.6-93.3 25 10.6 6.7-16.4
$50,000+ 218 210 93.5 86.4-97.0 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 158 143 83.2 72.7-90.1 15 16.8 9.9-27.3

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*Respondents who reported having hysterectomy were excluded from both numerator and denominator.

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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