2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,924 493 10.6 9.6-11.8 4,431 89.4 88.2-90.4
Region 1 & 2 498 55 15.4 10.8-21.6 443 84.6 78.4-89.2
GENDER
Male 233 26 15.9 9.2-26.1 207 84.1 73.9-90.8
Female 265 29 15.0 8.8-24.5 236 85.0 75.5-91.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 394 38 14.3 9.4-21.1 356 85.7 78.9-90.6
Non-Hispanic Black 21 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 142 24 19.3 11.9-29.9 118 80.7 70.1-88.1
45-64 176 26 18.6 10.5-30.8 150 81.4 69.2-89.5
65+ 171 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 28 24.1 15.4-35.6 149 75.9 64.4-84.6
Some Post-H.S. 131 15 10.3 5.4-18.9 116 89.7 81.1-94.6
College Graduate 188 12 6.6 3.6-11.5 176 93.4 88.5-96.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 184 11 7.1 3.0-15.9 173 92.9 84.1-97.0
Don't know/Not Sure 116 11 11.6 6.0-21.3 105 88.4 78.7-94.0

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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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