2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 1,014 336 33.6 29.9-37.5 678 66.4 62.5-70.1
GENDER
Male 431 160 37.5 31.8-43.5 271 62.5 56.5-68.2
Female 583 176 30.1 25.4-35.2 407 69.9 64.8-74.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 554 169 31.9 27.1-37.0 385 68.1 63.0-72.9
Non-Hispanic Black 239 82 35.8 28.3-44.0 157 64.2 56.0-71.7
Other 211 81 37.8 28.7-48.0 130 62.2 52.0-71.3
AGE
18-44 293 114 38.3 31.8-45.3 179 61.7 54.7-68.2
45-64 327 111 34.0 28.0-40.6 216 66.0 59.4-72.0
65+ 373 106 26.1 20.6-32.3 267 73.9 67.7-79.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 370 146 41.8 35.3-48.5 224 58.2 51.5-64.7
Some Post-H.S. 301 105 30.0 24.3-36.5 196 70.0 63.5-75.7
College Graduate 342 85 24.5 19.4-30.6 257 75.5 69.4-80.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 401 151 35.8 30.1-41.8 250 64.2 58.2-69.9
$50,000+ 381 109 33.1 27.1-39.7 272 66.9 60.3-72.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 232 76 30.8 23.6-39.0 156 69.2 61.0-76.4

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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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