2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Arthritis

In this next question, we are referring to work for pay. Do arthritis or joint symptoms now
affect whether you work, the type of work you do, or the amount of work you do?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,493 497 34.4 31.4-37.5 996 65.6 62.5-68.6
Medicaid Region 5 437 168 40.6 34.8-46.7 269 59.4 53.3-65.2
GENDER
Male 167 64 41.2 32.4-50.7 103 58.8 49.3-67.6
Female 270 104 40.2 32.6-48.3 166 59.8 51.7-67.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 232 65 34.9 27.6-43.0 167 65.1 57.0-72.4
Non-Hispanic Black 122 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 146 74 49.7 40.2-59.2 72 50.3 40.8-59.8
65+ 244 71 25.7 19.0-33.7 173 74.3 66.3-81.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 168 76 44.9 35.6-54.5 92 55.1 45.5-64.4
Some Post-H.S. 132 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 137 38 25.4 17.7-35.0 99 74.6 65.0-82.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 196 93 48.6 39.9-57.5 103 51.4 42.5-60.1
$50,000+ 134 37 28.5 19.6-39.3 97 71.5 60.7-80.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*For those with arthritis, this question was asked regardless of the their employment status.

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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