2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Housing Insecurity

During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were not able to pay your utility bills?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,055 309 7.6 6.6- 8.8 3,746 92.4 91.2-93.4
Medicaid Region 2 649 46 8.5 6.0-11.8 603 91.5 88.2-94.0
GENDER
Male 302 19 6.5 3.8-10.9 283 93.5 89.1-96.2
Female 347 27 10.2 6.6-15.5 320 89.8 84.5-93.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 469 21 5.3 3.3- 8.5 448 94.7 91.5-96.7
Non-Hispanic Black 103 14 14.5 8.1-24.7 89 85.5 75.3-91.9
Other 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 215 23 12.4 7.8-19.1 192 87.6 80.9-92.2
45-64 231 19 8.0 4.6-13.7 212 92.0 86.3-95.4
65+ 191 *** *** *** 187 96.7 89.9-99.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 205 24 13.1 8.5-19.6 181 86.9 80.4-91.5
Some Post-H.S. 196 11 6.6 3.3-13.1 185 93.4 86.9-96.7
College Graduate 248 11 3.8 2.0- 7.3 237 96.2 92.7-98.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 238 35 16.3 11.1-23.4 203 83.7 76.6-88.9
$50,000+ 270 *** *** *** 265 98.4 95.8-99.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 141 *** *** *** 135 94.1 86.7-97.5

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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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