2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 857 206 27.0 23.5-30.7 651 73.0 69.3-76.5
GENDER
Male 404 116 33.9 28.5-39.8 288 66.1 60.2-71.5
Female 453 90 21.1 17.0-25.9 363 78.9 74.1-83.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 512 104 23.5 19.4-28.2 408 76.5 71.8-80.6
Non-Hispanic Black 180 50 32.7 25.0-41.5 130 67.3 58.5-75.0
Other 153 47 29.6 22.0-38.6 106 70.4 61.4-78.0
AGE
18-44 348 92 28.3 23.1-34.2 256 71.7 65.8-76.9
45-64 296 76 28.6 22.9-35.1 220 71.4 64.9-77.1
65+ 197 35 21.6 15.0-30.2 162 78.4 69.8-85.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 228 87 40.9 33.7-48.6 141 59.1 51.4-66.3
Some Post-H.S. 169 45 25.5 18.9-33.5 124 74.5 66.5-81.1
College Graduate 456 74 17.0 13.5-21.1 382 83.0 78.9-86.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 260 84 35.4 28.6-42.7 176 64.6 57.3-71.4
$50,000+ 429 82 22.3 17.9-27.4 347 77.7 72.6-82.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 168 40 26.4 19.2-35.2 128 73.6 64.8-80.8

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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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