2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 667 61 8.9 6.8-11.6 606 91.1 88.4-93.2
GENDER
Male 320 29 8.8 5.9-13.0 291 91.2 87.0-94.1
Female 347 32 9.0 6.2-12.9 315 91.0 87.1-93.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 25 6.1 4.0- 9.2 386 93.9 90.8-96.0
Non-Hispanic Black 140 19 13.5 8.3-21.2 121 86.5 78.8-91.7
Other 103 15 10.9 6.3-18.2 88 89.1 81.8-93.7
AGE
18-44 268 29 9.9 6.6-14.6 239 90.1 85.4-93.4
45-64 213 28 11.9 8.1-17.3 185 88.1 82.7-91.9
65+ 169 *** *** *** 167 98.4 91.8-99.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 179 25 11.5 7.4-17.4 154 88.5 82.6-92.6
Some Post-H.S. 160 17 8.0 4.7-13.2 143 92.0 86.8-95.3
College Graduate 326 19 7.1 4.4-11.2 307 92.9 88.8-95.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 236 41 16.5 11.8-22.5 195 83.5 77.5-88.2
$50,000+ 290 *** *** *** 282 97.2 94.3-98.6
Don't know/Not Sure 138 12 8.2 4.3-15.0 126 91.8 85.0-95.7

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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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