2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,845 3,386 70.8 69.1-72.4 380 7.6 6.7- 8.6 416 8.1 7.2- 9.1 356 7.5 6.6- 8.6 307 6.0 5.2- 7.0
Medicaid Region 2 732 502 68.8 64.5-72.7 43 5.1 3.5- 7.3 66 8.9 6.7-11.6 66 9.8 7.4-13.0 55 7.4 5.5- 9.9
GENDER
Male 348 245 71.5 65.7-76.7 12 3.1 1.7- 5.7 30 8.0 5.3-12.1 26 7.3 4.7-11.3 35 10.0 6.9-14.2
Female 384 257 66.2 59.8-72.0 31 6.9 4.4-10.7 36 9.7 6.7-13.7 40 12.2 8.4-17.4 20 5.0 3.1- 8.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 526 357 67.3 62.3-71.9 29 5.1 3.4- 7.7 52 9.8 7.2-13.1 45 8.8 6.2-12.2 43 9.0 6.5-12.4
Non-Hispanic Black 112 83 76.3 66.0-84.2 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 81 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 12 14.8 7.3-27.6 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 259 192 75.0 68.0-80.8 18 6.1 3.4-10.7 25 8.5 5.4-13.2 16 8.0 4.5-13.6 *** *** ***
45-64 257 168 65.2 58.0-71.8 15 4.5 2.5- 7.8 23 9.9 6.4-15.1 26 11.1 7.2-16.8 25 9.2 6.1-13.7
65+ 201 129 60.2 51.7-68.2 *** *** *** 17 8.3 4.7-14.3 23 12.0 7.3-19.2 22 14.9 9.5-22.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 231 150 64.9 57.2-72.0 11 3.4 1.7- 6.7 25 11.3 7.3-17.0 22 10.9 6.8-16.8 23 9.5 6.0-14.9
Some Post-H.S. 216 139 67.6 60.0-74.4 14 6.7 3.6-12.1 20 7.9 5.0-12.4 24 11.6 7.4-17.7 19 6.2 3.8- 9.8
College Graduate 285 213 76.4 70.4-81.4 18 5.4 3.2- 8.8 21 6.5 4.1-10.2 20 5.8 3.6- 9.3 13 5.9 3.3-10.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 259 162 63.3 55.8-70.1 13 5.0 2.5- 9.7 27 11.0 7.3-16.2 32 13.5 9.1-19.4 25 7.3 4.8-11.0
$50,000+ 310 232 77.9 72.5-82.4 24 5.9 3.8- 9.2 22 5.9 3.8- 9.0 18 5.2 3.1- 8.6 14 5.1 3.0- 8.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 160 *** *** *** *** *** *** 17 10.3 5.7-17.9 16 11.5 6.1-20.4 16 11.4 6.4-19.6

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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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