2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare, or Indian Health Service?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,822 4,338 89.7 88.6-90.7 484 10.3 9.3-11.4
Region 8 784 713 89.9 87.0-92.2 71 10.1 7.8-13.0
GENDER
Male 326 284 87.8 83.4-91.1 42 12.2 8.9-16.6
Female 458 429 92.0 87.5-95.0 29 8.0 5.0-12.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 452 429 94.5 91.5-96.5 23 5.5 3.5- 8.5
Non-Hispanic Black 146 140 93.1 83.2-97.4 *** *** ***
Other 180 138 66.9 56.2-76.0 42 33.1 24.0-43.8
AGE
18-44 221 176 83.5 77.4-88.1 45 16.5 11.9-22.6
45-64 238 214 90.9 86.5-94.0 24 9.1 6.0-13.5
65+ 307 306 99.7 98.2- 100 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 295 246 83.3 77.5-87.9 49 16.7 12.1-22.5
Some Post-H.S. 212 199 93.8 88.9-96.6 13 6.2 3.4-11.1
College Graduate 275 266 96.1 92.6-98.0 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 324 278 82.9 76.7-87.8 46 17.1 12.2-23.3
$50,000+ 285 282 98.5 95.3-99.5 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 173 151 85.8 77.4-91.5 22 14.2 8.5-22.6

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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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