2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 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 4 739 80 11.0 8.7-13.7 659 89.0 86.3-91.3
GENDER
Male 359 31 8.9 6.0-13.0 328 91.1 87.0-94.0
Female 380 49 12.9 9.6-17.0 331 87.1 83.0-90.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 467 36 8.3 5.9-11.5 431 91.7 88.5-94.1
Non-Hispanic Black 132 19 14.6 9.0-22.7 113 85.4 77.3-91.0
Other 122 23 16.2 10.4-24.3 99 83.8 75.7-89.6
AGE
18-44 297 43 13.5 9.8-18.2 254 86.5 81.8-90.2
45-64 230 35 14.0 9.8-19.6 195 86.0 80.4-90.2
65+ 187 *** *** *** 185 98.4 93.7-99.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 222 36 15.2 10.9-21.0 186 84.8 79.0-89.1
Some Post-H.S. 200 23 10.3 6.6-15.6 177 89.7 84.4-93.4
College Graduate 313 21 6.5 4.1-10.2 292 93.5 89.8-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 223 45 21.1 15.6-28.0 178 78.9 72.0-84.4
$50,000+ 356 15 3.8 2.2- 6.4 341 96.2 93.6-97.8
Don't know/Not Sure 154 19 11.5 7.2-17.8 135 88.5 82.2-92.8

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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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