2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 1,169 796 70.2 66.9-73.3 91 8.2 6.4-10.4 101 7.6 5.9- 9.7 89 7.2 5.6- 9.2 92 6.9 5.3- 8.9
GENDER
Male 523 364 71.4 66.4-75.9 46 9.9 7.1-13.7 40 6.8 4.7- 9.8 31 4.9 3.2- 7.3 42 7.0 4.8-10.2
Female 646 432 69.1 64.5-73.3 45 6.5 4.6- 9.2 61 8.3 5.9-11.5 58 9.4 6.8-12.7 50 6.8 4.8- 9.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 653 443 68.5 64.1-72.7 58 9.1 6.8-12.1 59 9.2 6.8-12.3 53 7.7 5.7-10.4 40 5.4 3.7- 7.8
Non-Hispanic Black 265 180 71.1 64.0-77.2 16 7.6 4.4-12.9 23 6.4 3.8-10.5 18 5.7 3.2-10.0 28 9.3 6.0-14.0
Other 235 162 75.2 66.7-82.1 15 5.8 2.7-11.8 18 3.5 1.8- 6.8 17 6.4 3.2-12.5 23 9.2 4.9-16.4
AGE
18-44 373 273 73.5 68.0-78.3 35 10.3 7.1-14.5 26 6.5 4.2-10.1 22 5.5 3.4- 8.8 17 4.2 2.4- 7.3
45-64 351 226 66.8 60.7-72.3 33 8.3 5.6-12.0 35 8.1 5.5-11.8 30 8.5 5.7-12.6 27 8.3 5.3-12.8
65+ 416 276 68.6 62.7-73.9 19 3.7 2.1- 6.4 37 7.6 5.0-11.6 37 9.5 6.5-13.8 47 10.6 7.5-14.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 419 276 69.6 64.0-74.7 27 5.8 3.8- 8.8 39 9.4 6.4-13.8 33 7.0 4.6-10.6 44 8.1 5.6-11.6
Some Post-H.S. 343 231 70.4 64.4-75.9 36 11.5 7.9-16.6 21 4.3 2.5- 7.1 20 5.4 3.2- 9.0 35 8.4 5.6-12.4
College Graduate 401 285 70.8 65.3-75.7 27 7.0 4.7-10.4 41 9.5 6.7-13.4 35 10.2 7.0-14.5 13 2.5 1.3- 5.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 461 290 64.2 58.6-69.5 38 8.3 5.7-12.0 40 8.1 5.6-11.6 37 8.9 6.0-12.9 56 10.5 7.6-14.3
$50,000+ 444 328 77.5 72.7-81.7 34 7.7 5.2-11.2 36 5.6 3.8- 8.2 34 6.5 4.4- 9.5 12 2.7 1.3- 5.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 261 176 67.0 59.1-74.1 19 8.9 5.2-15.1 25 10.4 6.0-17.2 18 5.6 3.1- 9.8 23 8.1 4.8-13.2

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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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