2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Food Insecurity

I’m going to read you two statements that people have made about their food situation. For each statement, please tell me whether the statement was often true, sometimes true, or never true for your household in the last 12 months.
“We worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.”
In the last 12 months, was that…

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  Total
Respond.^		 Often True Sometimes True Never True
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,093 110 2.8 2.1- 3.6 348 9.0 7.8-10.3 3,635 88.3 86.8-89.6
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 429 14 6.0 2.8-12.6 33 9.6 6.0-15.1 382 84.3 77.3-89.5
Region 3 439 14 2.6 1.4- 4.8 34 10.2 6.9-14.7 391 87.2 82.6-90.8
Region 4 543 13 3.1 1.6- 6.1 38 8.5 6.0-12.0 492 88.4 84.4-91.4
Region 5 565 20 3.3 2.0- 5.5 41 7.7 4.9-12.0 504 89.0 84.6-92.2
Region 6 440 16 2.9 1.7- 4.8 43 9.5 6.8-13.2 381 87.6 83.8-90.6
Region 7 559 *** *** *** 44 8.0 5.8-11.1 506 90.7 87.5-93.2
Region 8 700 17 1.5 0.8- 2.8 72 10.3 7.7-13.7 611 88.2 84.8-91.0
Region 9 & 10 418 *** *** *** 43 10.5 7.3-14.9 368 88.0 83.5-91.4
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,570 37 1.7 1.1- 2.5 157 9.9 8.1-12.0 1,376 88.4 86.3-90.3
Piedmont 1,984 55 2.7 1.9- 3.8 151 8.5 7.0-10.4 1,778 88.8 86.8-90.5
Western NC 539 18 5.8 3.0-11.2 40 9.8 6.4-14.8 481 84.3 78.2-89.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 345 13 7.4 3.3-15.8 26 7.8 4.8-12.6 306 84.8 76.9-90.4
Northwest 654 20 2.3 1.4- 3.9 47 9.2 6.5-13.0 587 88.4 84.6-91.4
Charlotte 424 *** *** *** 33 9.3 6.4-13.4 383 87.6 82.9-91.2
Greensboro 436 15 2.7 1.5- 4.8 36 9.5 5.9-14.8 385 87.9 82.5-91.7
Southern Regional 680 23 2.8 1.7- 4.7 77 11.4 8.5-15.0 580 85.8 82.0-88.9
Southeast 324 *** *** *** 29 9.6 6.4-14.2 290 89.6 85.0-93.0
Wake 657 16 2.4 1.3- 4.2 47 7.3 5.3-10.1 594 90.3 87.2-92.7
Area L & Eastern 573 *** *** *** 53 9.2 6.6-12.6 510 89.5 85.9-92.2
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 451 14 5.8 2.7-12.1 33 9.2 5.8-14.5 404 85.0 78.2-89.9
Region 2 657 21 2.6 1.6- 4.4 52 10.3 7.1-14.6 584 87.1 82.7-90.5
Region 3 555 13 2.9 1.5- 5.6 39 8.4 5.9-11.7 503 88.7 84.9-91.7
Region 4 859 22 2.3 1.4- 3.7 62 6.9 5.2- 9.1 775 90.8 88.4-92.8
Region 5 1,024 31 2.3 1.5- 3.5 107 10.7 8.5-13.4 886 87.0 84.2-89.4
Region 6 547 *** *** *** 55 10.5 7.6-14.4 483 88.1 84.2-91.2

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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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