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 5,639 893 14.0 12.9-15.2 4,746 86.0 84.8-87.1
Medicaid Region 5 1,344 265 17.9 15.4-20.6 1,079 82.1 79.4-84.6
GENDER
Male 595 106 17.5 13.8-21.9 489 82.5 78.1-86.2
Female 749 159 18.2 15.1-21.8 590 81.8 78.2-84.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 778 146 18.9 15.6-22.7 632 81.1 77.3-84.4
Non-Hispanic Black 308 82 22.3 17.1-28.6 226 77.7 71.4-82.9
Other 258 37 8.0 5.4-11.7 221 92.0 88.3-94.6
AGE
18-44 437 21 5.1 3.2- 8.1 416 94.9 91.9-96.8
45-64 444 109 27.1 22.0-32.9 335 72.9 67.1-78.0
65+ 429 133 32.0 26.3-38.3 296 68.0 61.7-73.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 500 126 21.5 17.2-26.4 374 78.5 73.6-82.8
Some Post-H.S. 392 85 19.5 15.3-24.4 307 80.5 75.6-84.7
College Graduate 443 53 9.9 7.2-13.4 390 90.1 86.6-92.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 600 162 25.4 21.0-30.3 438 74.6 69.7-79.0
$50,000+ 478 58 12.1 9.0-15.9 420 87.9 84.1-91.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 266 45 11.5 8.1-16.0 221 88.5 84.0-91.9

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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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