2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,843 364 7.1 6.2- 8.1 4,479 92.9 91.9-93.8
Medicaid Region 5 1,170 118 9.3 7.4-11.6 1,052 90.7 88.4-92.6
GENDER
Male 518 37 7.4 5.1-10.6 481 92.6 89.4-94.9
Female 652 81 11.0 8.3-14.6 571 89.0 85.4-91.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 652 52 8.6 6.2-11.7 600 91.4 88.3-93.8
Non-Hispanic Black 265 41 14.2 9.9-20.0 224 85.8 80.0-90.1
Other 240 25 6.0 2.8-12.6 215 94.0 87.4-97.2
AGE
18-44 369 26 7.1 4.5-11.0 343 92.9 89.0-95.5
45-64 353 35 11.4 7.9-16.2 318 88.6 83.8-92.1
65+ 423 57 11.6 8.2-16.1 366 88.4 83.9-91.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 428 57 12.2 8.8-16.6 371 87.8 83.4-91.2
Some Post-H.S. 342 43 9.2 6.3-13.2 299 90.8 86.8-93.7
College Graduate 398 18 4.2 2.4- 7.4 380 95.8 92.6-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 468 73 13.6 10.3-17.8 395 86.4 82.2-89.7
$50,000+ 438 16 3.6 1.9- 6.5 422 96.4 93.5-98.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 264 29 12.0 7.5-18.7 235 88.0 81.3-92.5

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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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