2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,851 806 14.8 13.6-16.1 4,045 85.2 83.9-86.4
Medicaid Region 6 651 117 16.4 13.2-20.1 534 83.6 79.9-86.8
GENDER
Male 289 35 11.8 7.8-17.4 254 88.2 82.6-92.2
Female 362 82 20.8 16.2-26.3 280 79.2 73.7-83.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 403 72 16.9 13.0-21.7 331 83.1 78.3-87.0
Non-Hispanic Black 145 36 20.5 13.7-29.5 109 79.5 70.5-86.3
Other 86 *** *** *** 77 92.6 85.1-96.5
AGE
18-44 213 *** *** *** 207 97.5 94.0-99.0
45-64 215 46 24.5 17.9-32.7 169 75.5 67.3-82.1
65+ 206 63 33.4 25.9-41.7 143 66.6 58.3-74.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 235 53 19.9 14.6-26.7 182 80.1 73.3-85.4
Some Post-H.S. 181 38 17.0 11.7-23.9 143 83.0 76.1-88.3
College Graduate 228 26 9.0 5.9-13.5 202 91.0 86.5-94.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 248 70 23.7 18.3-30.1 178 76.3 69.9-81.7
$50,000+ 247 18 5.4 3.2- 8.9 229 94.6 91.1-96.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 29 21.2 13.5-31.7 127 78.8 68.3-86.5

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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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