2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Chronic Health Conditions

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,929 648 13.7 12.5-15.0 4,281 86.3 85.0-87.5
Medicaid Region 2 746 97 14.7 11.5-18.6 649 85.3 81.4-88.5
GENDER
Male 350 31 11.1 7.4-16.2 319 88.9 83.8-92.6
Female 396 66 18.0 12.9-24.4 330 82.0 75.6-87.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 533 65 13.8 10.1-18.7 468 86.2 81.3-89.9
Non-Hispanic Black 116 20 19.5 12.0-30.2 96 80.5 69.8-88.0
Other 83 *** *** *** 73 88.1 76.4-94.4
AGE
18-44 263 38 15.9 11.0-22.4 225 84.1 77.6-89.0
45-64 261 39 16.4 10.5-24.7 222 83.6 75.3-89.5
65+ 207 19 10.6 6.0-18.2 188 89.4 81.8-94.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 239 33 19.1 13.0-27.3 206 80.9 72.7-87.0
Some Post-H.S. 220 27 10.3 6.6-15.9 193 89.7 84.1-93.4
College Graduate 287 37 13.8 9.7-19.2 250 86.2 80.8-90.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 266 37 14.5 10.0-20.6 229 85.5 79.4-90.0
$50,000+ 311 37 11.3 8.0-15.9 274 88.7 84.1-92.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 23 20.3 12.3-31.7 143 79.7 68.3-87.7

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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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