2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 706 69 9.7 7.5-12.5 637 90.3 87.5-92.5
GENDER
Male 349 26 8.2 5.4-12.3 323 91.8 87.7-94.6
Female 357 43 11.1 8.0-15.3 314 88.9 84.7-92.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 406 28 6.5 4.4- 9.5 378 93.5 90.5-95.6
Non-Hispanic Black 150 20 14.8 9.3-22.7 130 85.2 77.3-90.7
Other 135 20 14.5 8.9-22.8 115 85.5 77.2-91.1
AGE
18-44 311 36 10.6 7.4-14.9 275 89.4 85.1-92.6
45-64 242 27 12.1 8.0-17.7 215 87.9 82.3-92.0
65+ 138 *** *** *** 133 95.8 88.8-98.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 192 31 14.0 9.5-20.1 161 86.0 79.9-90.5
Some Post-H.S. 146 17 9.7 5.8-15.9 129 90.3 84.1-94.2
College Graduate 362 20 5.9 3.7- 9.3 342 94.1 90.7-96.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 43 19.0 13.9-25.5 170 81.0 74.5-86.1
$50,000+ 352 11 3.3 1.7- 6.1 341 96.7 93.9-98.3
Don't know/Not Sure 138 15 11.8 6.6-20.1 123 88.2 79.9-93.4

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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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