2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had skin cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,924 395 6.7 5.9- 7.5 4,529 93.3 92.5-94.1
Medicaid Region 5 1,186 105 7.4 5.9- 9.3 1,081 92.6 90.7-94.1
GENDER
Male 525 39 6.0 4.1- 8.6 486 94.0 91.4-95.9
Female 661 66 8.7 6.5-11.5 595 91.3 88.5-93.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 657 94 11.5 9.1-14.5 563 88.5 85.5-90.9
Non-Hispanic Black 271 *** *** *** 267 99.1 97.4-99.7
Other 242 *** *** *** 237 98.9 96.4-99.7
AGE
18-44 374 *** *** *** 374 100 -
45-64 357 24 7.5 4.8-11.5 333 92.5 88.5-95.2
65+ 426 76 19.5 15.1-24.7 350 80.5 75.3-84.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 433 29 5.9 3.8- 9.1 404 94.1 90.9-96.2
Some Post-H.S. 345 33 7.5 5.0-11.0 312 92.5 89.0-95.0
College Graduate 403 43 10.1 7.3-13.8 360 89.9 86.2-92.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 468 40 7.5 5.2-10.7 428 92.5 89.3-94.8
$50,000+ 444 41 7.1 5.0-10.1 403 92.9 89.9-95.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 271 24 7.9 4.7-12.8 247 92.1 87.2-95.3

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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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