2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare, or Indian Health Service?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,819 5,047 85.3 84.1-86.4 772 14.7 13.6-15.9
Region 8 908 782 83.9 80.6-86.8 126 16.1 13.2-19.4
GENDER
Male 417 353 84.3 79.4-88.3 64 15.7 11.7-20.6
Female 491 429 83.5 78.7-87.4 62 16.5 12.6-21.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 565 512 88.0 84.1-91.1 53 12.0 8.9-15.9
Non-Hispanic Black 148 136 87.8 78.2-93.6 12 12.2 6.4-21.8
Other 195 134 60.8 50.8-70.0 61 39.2 30.0-49.2
AGE
18-44 274 196 73.1 66.6-78.7 78 26.9 21.3-33.4
45-64 302 259 87.7 83.0-91.3 43 12.3 8.7-17.0
65+ 306 304 99.3 97.0-99.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 368 289 76.2 70.3-81.3 79 23.8 18.7-29.7
Some Post-H.S. 245 214 86.9 80.8-91.3 31 13.1 8.7-19.2
College Graduate 285 272 94.2 88.9-97.0 13 5.8 3.0-11.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 405 325 77.6 72.1-82.4 80 22.4 17.6-27.9
$50,000+ 299 286 92.6 86.3-96.1 13 7.4 3.9-13.7
Don't know/Not Sure 185 155 83.9 76.5-89.3 30 16.1 10.7-23.5

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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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