2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Reactions to Race

Within the past 12 months, do you feel that in general you were treated worse than, the same as, or better than people of other races?

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  Total
Respond.^
Worse than other races The same as other races Better than other races
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,775 292 10.8 9.3-12.5 1,965 72.4 70.1-74.5 518 16.8 15.1-18.6
Medicaid Region 2 411 46 13.9 9.8-19.3 287 71.4 65.7-76.6 78 14.7 11.3-18.9
GENDER
Male 169 21 16.0 9.6-25.6 117 69.1 59.6-77.2 31 14.9 10.0-21.6
Female 242 25 11.9 7.5-18.3 170 73.5 66.2-79.8 47 14.5 10.2-20.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 309 12 4.1 2.1- 8.1 232 78.5 72.7-83.3 65 17.4 13.2-22.7
Non-Hispanic Black 56 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 44 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 119 18 16.3 9.6-26.4 76 64.5 53.9-73.8 25 19.2 12.7-28.1
45-64 153 21 18.8 11.4-29.5 103 70.1 60.0-78.5 29 11.1 7.4-16.5
65+ 138 *** *** *** 107 83.5 75.3-89.4 24 12.8 7.8-20.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 127 14 12.2 6.7-21.1 105 80.7 71.1-87.7 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 111 16 17.1 9.8-28.2 77 69.3 58.2-78.5 18 13.6 8.0-22.2
College Graduate 171 16 12.2 6.0-23.2 103 61.3 51.5-70.2 52 26.6 19.6-34.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 131 12 9.2 4.8-17.0 93 73.0 63.4-80.9 26 17.7 11.5-26.3
$50,000+ 182 23 15.7 9.7-24.3 119 68.4 59.5-76.2 40 15.9 11.0-22.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 98 *** *** *** *** *** *** 12 9.1 4.5-17.4

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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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