2021 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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%)
TOTAL 4,093 110 2.8 2.1- 3.6 348 9.0 7.8-10.3 3,635 88.3 86.8-89.6
GENDER
Male 1,854 41 1.5 1.1- 2.2 136 7.4 5.9- 9.1 1,677 91.1 89.3-92.6
Female 2,239 69 3.8 2.7- 5.4 212 10.4 8.7-12.4 1,958 85.8 83.5-87.8
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,635 82 2.5 1.8- 3.4 267 8.1 6.9- 9.5 3,286 89.4 87.9-90.8
No 395 28 6.1 3.6-10.1 73 14.8 11.4-19.0 294 79.1 74.1-83.4
Body Mass Index
Underweight 47 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,043 *** *** *** 76 6.9 5.2- 9.1 945 90.5 87.6-92.8
Overweight 1,292 30 2.4 1.5- 3.7 90 6.7 5.2- 8.5 1,172 90.9 88.8-92.7
Obese 1,393 45 3.2 2.0- 4.9 152 11.9 9.7-14.4 1,196 84.9 82.1-87.4
Current Smoker
Yes 545 37 7.2 4.8-10.7 81 15.5 11.6-20.4 427 77.3 72.0-81.8
No 3,531 73 2.0 1.4- 3.0 267 8.0 6.8- 9.3 3,191 90.0 88.5-91.3
History of CVD**
Yes 471 24 6.4 3.9-10.2 58 10.6 7.8-14.4 389 83.0 78.3-86.8
No 3,580 80 2.2 1.5- 3.1 285 8.7 7.5-10.1 3,215 89.1 87.5-90.5
Binge Drinker
Yes 540 *** *** *** 45 7.1 4.9-10.2 484 91.0 87.7-93.5
No 3,389 95 2.9 2.1- 4.0 280 8.9 7.7-10.4 3,014 88.1 86.5-89.6
Heavy Drinker
Yes 206 *** *** *** 18 8.0 4.7-13.2 184 90.7 85.3-94.2
No 3,717 100 2.8 2.1- 3.8 307 8.7 7.5-10.0 3,310 88.5 86.9-89.9
COPD
Yes 322 *** *** *** 44 14.3 9.0-21.8 260 75.9 67.0-83.0
No 3,758 91 2.1 1.6- 2.9 303 8.5 7.4- 9.8 3,364 89.3 87.9-90.6
Current Asthma
Yes 364 18 5.6 3.2- 9.7 58 16.3 11.4-22.9 288 78.0 71.3-83.6
No 3,721 92 2.5 1.8- 3.4 290 8.3 7.2- 9.6 3,339 89.2 87.7-90.5
Diabetes
Yes 590 22 3.2 1.8- 5.5 65 10.9 8.1-14.6 503 85.9 81.9-89.1
No 3,501 88 2.7 2.0- 3.7 282 8.6 7.4-10.0 3,131 88.7 87.1-90.1
Functional Disability
Yes 1,315 74 5.5 3.9- 7.8 174 13.6 11.3-16.3 1,067 80.8 77.7-83.7
No 2,753 36 1.5 1.0- 2.4 172 6.9 5.6- 8.4 2,545 91.6 89.9-93.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,339 62 4.8 3.5- 6.5 166 12.5 10.2-15.1 1,111 82.8 79.8-85.4
No 2,754 48 1.9 1.2- 3.1 182 7.5 6.2- 9.0 2,524 90.6 88.8-92.1

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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