2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months has a lack of reliable transportation kept you from medical appointments, meetings, work, or from getting things needed for daily living?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,546 238 7.8 6.5- 9.4 3,308 92.2 90.6-93.5
Medicaid Region 5 811 54 7.4 5.0-11.0 757 92.6 89.0-95.0
GENDER
Male 374 31 11.8 7.4-18.4 343 88.2 81.6-92.6
Female 437 23 3.4 1.7- 6.5 414 96.6 93.5-98.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 417 15 3.9 1.9- 7.6 402 96.1 92.4-98.1
Non-Hispanic Black 158 18 15.8 8.6-27.4 140 84.2 72.6-91.4
Other 216 21 9.8 4.6-19.5 195 90.2 80.5-95.4
AGE
18-44 272 24 10.7 6.1-17.9 248 89.3 82.1-93.9
45-64 274 22 7.4 4.0-13.4 252 92.6 86.6-96.0
65+ 252 *** *** *** 244 97.6 93.7-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 280 28 8.0 4.8-13.1 252 92.0 86.9-95.2
Some Post-H.S. 276 18 10.6 5.9-18.3 258 89.4 81.7-94.1
College Graduate 254 *** *** *** 246 98.9 96.8-99.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 311 34 11.8 7.2-18.7 277 88.2 81.3-92.8
$50,000+ 317 *** *** *** 313 97.7 91.5-99.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 183 16 10.3 4.9-20.6 167 89.7 79.4-95.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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