2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of insurance coverage that pays for some or all of your routine dental care
including dental insurance prepaid plans such as HMOs or government plans such as Medicaid?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,722 2,835 61.2 59.5-62.9 1,887 38.8 37.1-40.5
Region 8 745 434 59.7 55.0-64.2 311 40.3 35.8-45.0
GENDER
Male 334 196 58.9 51.7-65.8 138 41.1 34.2-48.3
Female 411 238 60.3 54.2-66.1 173 39.7 33.9-45.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 460 275 60.9 55.1-66.4 185 39.1 33.6-44.9
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 163 78 43.8 34.5-53.6 85 56.2 46.4-65.5
AGE
18-44 210 120 61.3 53.3-68.7 90 38.7 31.3-46.7
45-64 256 170 70.4 63.2-76.7 86 29.6 23.3-36.8
65+ 256 129 42.6 35.1-50.6 127 57.4 49.4-64.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 305 146 50.0 42.5-57.4 159 50.0 42.6-57.5
Some Post-H.S. 213 137 67.2 58.8-74.6 76 32.8 25.4-41.2
College Graduate 219 147 67.1 59.2-74.2 72 32.9 25.8-40.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 340 163 49.5 42.4-56.5 177 50.5 43.5-57.6
$50,000+ 255 195 76.4 69.1-82.4 60 23.6 17.6-30.9
Don't know/Not Sure 150 76 52.8 42.8-62.6 74 47.2 37.4-57.2

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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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