2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,380 662 15.7 14.1-17.4 3,718 84.3 82.6-85.9
Medicaid Region 6 577 101 18.4 14.4-23.2 476 81.6 76.8-85.6
GENDER
Male 261 35 15.7 10.2-23.3 226 84.3 76.7-89.8
Female 316 66 21.1 15.7-27.7 250 78.9 72.3-84.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 368 58 15.3 11.2-20.7 310 84.7 79.3-88.8
Non-Hispanic Black 123 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 72 *** *** *** 65 88.5 76.3-94.8
AGE
18-44 204 13 7.6 3.9-14.3 191 92.4 85.7-96.1
45-64 181 38 27.1 18.6-37.6 143 72.9 62.4-81.4
65+ 182 49 30.6 22.1-40.6 133 69.4 59.4-77.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 205 43 21.3 14.8-29.8 162 78.7 70.2-85.2
Some Post-H.S. 175 40 20.0 13.8-28.1 135 80.0 71.9-86.2
College Graduate 195 17 8.9 5.0-15.6 178 91.1 84.4-95.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 229 55 24.7 18.1-32.8 174 75.3 67.2-81.9
$50,000+ 225 17 8.2 4.0-16.0 208 91.8 84.0-96.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 123 29 22.2 13.9-33.5 94 77.8 66.5-86.1

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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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