2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 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 3 480 51 10.9 8.0-14.8 429 89.1 85.2-92.0
GENDER
Male 218 22 12.2 7.7-18.8 196 87.8 81.2-92.3
Female 262 29 9.7 6.3-14.6 233 90.3 85.4-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 369 32 9.3 6.2-13.8 337 90.7 86.2-93.8
Non-Hispanic Black 57 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 156 32 18.3 12.4-26.2 124 81.7 73.8-87.6
45-64 174 16 7.7 4.4-13.0 158 92.3 87.0-95.6
65+ 142 *** *** *** 139 96.7 88.8-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 158 20 11.8 7.3-18.5 138 88.2 81.5-92.7
Some Post-H.S. 152 17 11.9 6.9-19.6 135 88.1 80.4-93.1
College Graduate 170 14 7.6 4.3-13.0 156 92.4 87.0-95.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 167 28 16.0 10.5-23.7 139 84.0 76.3-89.5
$50,000+ 201 *** *** *** 193 96.3 92.3-98.3
Don't know/Not Sure 111 15 13.8 7.7-23.6 96 86.2 76.4-92.3

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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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