2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Sugar Sweetened Beverages

HNC2030 sugar-sweetened beverage indicator*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,057 1,127 29.8 28.0-31.6 2,930 70.2 68.4-72.0
Medicaid Region 2 655 188 32.3 27.8-37.2 467 67.7 62.8-72.2
GENDER
Male 305 95 34.6 28.2-41.6 210 65.4 58.4-71.8
Female 350 93 30.3 24.0-37.5 257 69.7 62.5-76.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 471 134 33.1 27.8-38.9 337 66.9 61.1-72.2
Non-Hispanic Black 105 26 27.3 18.1-38.8 79 72.7 61.2-81.9
Other 68 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 224 80 39.5 31.8-47.8 144 60.5 52.2-68.2
45-64 230 63 28.9 21.6-37.5 167 71.1 62.5-78.4
65+ 188 45 26.6 19.2-35.7 143 73.4 64.3-80.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 80 40.6 32.5-49.3 124 59.4 50.7-67.5
Some Post-H.S. 200 59 31.4 23.8-40.1 141 68.6 59.9-76.2
College Graduate 251 49 20.9 15.7-27.3 202 79.1 72.7-84.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 239 95 36.8 29.9-44.4 144 63.2 55.6-70.1
$50,000+ 275 58 22.4 17.3-28.5 217 77.6 71.5-82.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 141 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Yes=1+ drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

No=Less than 1 drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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