2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Reactions to Race

How often do you think about your race? Would you say never, once a year, once a month, once a week, once a day, once an hour, or constantly?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Never Once a year Once a month Once a week Once a day/once an hour/constantly
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,950 1,715 59.4 56.9-61.9 235 7.8 6.6- 9.3 308 9.7 8.4-11.3 254 8.1 7.0- 9.4 438 14.9 13.2-16.8
Medicaid Region 2 449 286 64.6 58.9-70.0 32 5.9 4.0- 8.7 31 7.0 4.6-10.4 43 9.2 6.5-12.8 57 13.3 9.7-18.1
GENDER
Male 195 121 60.4 51.6-68.6 18 8.0 4.7-13.1 12 7.9 4.3-14.0 16 7.5 4.1-13.1 28 16.3 10.4-24.6
Female 254 165 68.6 61.2-75.1 14 4.0 2.2- 7.2 19 6.1 3.5-10.3 27 10.7 7.0-16.1 29 10.6 6.8-16.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 334 239 72.9 66.9-78.2 25 6.5 4.2-10.1 17 6.1 3.5-10.2 27 7.8 5.0-12.0 26 6.7 4.3-10.4
Non-Hispanic Black 67 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 44 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 129 66 56.0 45.9-65.7 *** *** *** 17 12.0 7.1-19.7 17 10.8 6.4-17.7 22 18.0 11.2-27.7
45-64 164 101 62.1 52.4-70.8 12 8.7 4.6-15.7 *** *** *** 20 11.5 6.8-18.8 23 14.0 8.4-22.4
65+ 149 113 80.4 72.0-86.8 13 6.9 3.7-12.5 *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 4.7 2.2- 9.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 136 101 75.6 66.1-83.1 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 14 12.4 6.9-21.2
Some Post-H.S. 116 83 71.5 60.7-80.3 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 194 100 43.0 34.8-51.7 13 6.8 3.7-12.4 20 13.3 8.1-21.0 26 14.7 9.5-22.1 35 22.1 14.7-31.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 141 96 68.3 58.4-76.8 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 21 15.0 8.9-24.0
$50,000+ 203 115 57.6 49.0-65.7 15 7.5 4.3-12.9 19 9.7 5.8-15.8 29 14.8 9.7-21.9 25 10.4 6.6-16.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 105 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Other includes Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, mixed race, or some other group

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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