2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 4,490 508 11.9 10.6-13.3 3,982 88.1 86.7-89.4
Region 8 734 92 12.1 9.1-15.8 642 87.9 84.2-90.9
GENDER
Male 347 38 9.9 6.5-14.9 309 90.1 85.1-93.5
Female 387 54 14.2 9.8-20.1 333 85.8 79.9-90.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 392 35 10.6 7.1-15.6 357 89.4 84.4-92.9
Non-Hispanic Black 109 15 9.6 4.3-20.0 94 90.4 80.0-95.7
Other 215 38 19.9 12.7-29.9 177 80.1 70.1-87.3
AGE
18-44 252 49 17.2 11.9-24.1 203 82.8 75.9-88.1
45-64 256 31 11.2 6.7-18.1 225 88.8 81.9-93.3
65+ 217 12 4.0 1.9- 8.3 205 96.0 91.7-98.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 288 53 15.1 10.2-21.8 235 84.9 78.2-89.8
Some Post-H.S. 234 28 13.6 8.8-20.6 206 86.4 79.4-91.2
College Graduate 211 11 2.5 1.2- 5.2 200 97.5 94.8-98.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 294 61 20.8 14.8-28.4 233 79.2 71.6-85.2
$50,000+ 267 14 5.8 3.1-10.5 253 94.2 89.5-96.9
Don't know/Not Sure 166 16 8.5 3.9-17.6 150 91.5 82.4-96.1

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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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