2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,984 242 5.9 4.9- 7.0 3,742 94.1 93.0-95.1
Medicaid Region 4 941 43 5.7 3.8- 8.4 898 94.3 91.6-96.2
GENDER
Male 431 19 5.8 3.0-11.0 412 94.2 89.0-97.0
Female 510 24 5.6 3.5- 8.8 486 94.4 91.2-96.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 560 24 4.5 2.8- 7.3 536 95.5 92.7-97.2
Non-Hispanic Black 183 *** *** *** 173 90.6 80.3-95.8
Other 183 *** *** *** 174 94.9 89.7-97.6
AGE
18-44 370 14 5.2 2.8- 9.5 356 94.8 90.5-97.2
45-64 306 *** *** *** 296 96.5 93.0-98.3
65+ 253 19 10.6 5.2-20.4 234 89.4 79.6-94.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 228 16 9.0 4.7-16.6 212 91.0 83.4-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 206 14 6.5 3.5-11.7 192 93.5 88.3-96.5
College Graduate 502 13 2.5 1.3- 4.9 489 97.5 95.1-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 243 21 11.0 6.5-18.0 222 89.0 82.0-93.5
$50,000+ 524 17 3.0 1.6- 5.4 507 97.0 94.6-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 174 *** *** *** 169 93.4 81.5-97.9

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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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