2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,991 365 7.4 6.3- 8.6 3,626 92.6 91.4-93.7
Medicaid Region 1 492 56 9.7 6.6-14.0 436 90.3 86.0-93.4
GENDER
Male 206 31 13.5 8.1-21.5 175 86.5 78.5-91.9
Female 286 25 6.0 3.5-10.1 261 94.0 89.9-96.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 403 51 9.5 6.3-14.0 352 90.5 86.0-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 119 *** *** *** 116 96.6 89.3-99.0
45-64 165 15 6.2 3.1-11.9 150 93.8 88.1-96.9
65+ 199 35 21.6 13.6-32.6 164 78.4 67.4-86.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 134 18 15.4 8.7-25.7 116 84.6 74.3-91.3
Some Post-H.S. 156 17 6.0 3.2-10.7 139 94.0 89.3-96.8
College Graduate 201 21 6.0 3.4-10.4 180 94.0 89.6-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 171 16 13.0 7.0-22.8 155 87.0 77.2-93.0
$50,000+ 206 16 3.9 2.2- 6.9 190 96.1 93.1-97.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 115 24 13.7 7.8-23.0 91 86.3 77.0-92.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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