2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,826 634 11.5 10.4-12.5 5,192 88.5 87.5-89.6
Region 6 663 87 13.9 11.0-17.4 576 86.1 82.6-89.0
GENDER
Male 291 32 11.5 7.8-16.6 259 88.5 83.4-92.2
Female 372 55 16.2 12.1-21.4 317 83.8 78.6-87.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 36 12.4 8.7-17.4 328 87.6 82.6-91.3
Non-Hispanic Black 198 25 12.5 7.9-19.2 173 87.5 80.8-92.1
Other 101 26 22.6 14.5-33.4 75 77.4 66.6-85.5
AGE
18-44 254 47 18.1 13.4-23.9 207 81.9 76.1-86.6
45-64 210 32 13.7 8.9-20.5 178 86.3 79.5-91.1
65+ 186 *** *** *** 180 95.9 89.8-98.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 223 38 16.9 11.8-23.7 185 83.1 76.3-88.2
Some Post-H.S. 211 30 14.2 9.6-20.4 181 85.8 79.6-90.4
College Graduate 228 19 8.9 5.1-15.1 209 91.1 84.9-94.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 291 66 24.7 19.0-31.3 225 75.3 68.7-81.0
$50,000+ 239 *** *** *** 230 96.2 92.2-98.2
Don't know/Not Sure 121 11 8.4 4.4-15.4 110 91.6 84.6-95.6

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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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