2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Reactions to Race

Within the past 30 days, have you experienced any physical symptoms, for example, a headache, an upset stomach, tensing of your muscles, or a pounding heart, as a result of how you were treated based on your race?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,068 190 4.6 3.8- 5.6 3,878 95.4 94.4-96.2
Medicaid Region 5 1,010 59 4.9 3.6- 6.8 951 95.1 93.2-96.4
GENDER
Male 434 22 3.8 2.2- 6.5 412 96.2 93.5-97.8
Female 576 37 5.9 4.0- 8.8 539 94.1 91.2-96.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 555 12 2.4 1.2- 4.5 543 97.6 95.5-98.8
Non-Hispanic Black 235 28 10.2 6.5-15.8 207 89.8 84.2-93.5
Other 211 18 6.6 3.4-12.2 193 93.4 87.8-96.6
AGE
18-44 289 15 4.4 2.5- 7.6 274 95.6 92.4-97.5
45-64 323 27 6.5 3.9-10.5 296 93.5 89.5-96.1
65+ 379 17 4.2 2.3- 7.6 362 95.8 92.4-97.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 372 26 5.4 3.4- 8.6 346 94.6 91.4-96.6
Some Post-H.S. 296 16 4.3 2.3- 7.8 280 95.7 92.2-97.7
College Graduate 341 17 5.0 2.7- 9.1 324 95.0 90.9-97.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 393 31 7.1 4.5-11.1 362 92.9 88.9-95.5
$50,000+ 381 12 1.9 0.9- 4.0 369 98.1 96.0-99.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 236 16 6.8 3.8-11.8 220 93.2 88.2-96.2

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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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