2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,860 301 5.8 5.0- 6.7 4,559 94.2 93.3-95.0
Medicaid Region 3 737 40 5.3 3.7- 7.4 697 94.7 92.6-96.3
GENDER
Male 356 14 4.0 2.2- 7.2 342 96.0 92.8-97.8
Female 381 26 6.4 4.2- 9.7 355 93.6 90.3-95.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 470 22 5.1 3.2- 8.1 448 94.9 91.9-96.8
Non-Hispanic Black 129 *** *** *** 121 95.8 91.1-98.1
Other 121 *** *** *** 112 93.0 85.1-96.9
AGE
18-44 298 *** *** *** 290 96.9 93.4-98.5
45-64 227 17 7.9 4.7-12.9 210 92.1 87.1-95.3
65+ 187 14 6.4 3.6-11.0 173 93.6 89.0-96.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 226 19 7.8 4.7-12.6 207 92.2 87.4-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 199 14 5.3 2.9- 9.3 185 94.7 90.7-97.1
College Graduate 309 *** *** *** 302 97.9 95.6-99.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 228 20 8.6 5.3-13.5 208 91.4 86.5-94.7
$50,000+ 356 *** *** *** 346 97.2 94.4-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 153 *** *** *** 143 94.2 87.9-97.3

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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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