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 3,967 536 14.8 13.2-16.5 3,431 85.2 83.5-86.8
Medicaid Region 4 935 101 11.4 9.0-14.4 834 88.6 85.6-91.0
GENDER
Male 428 46 11.6 8.3-16.0 382 88.4 84.0-91.7
Female 507 55 11.3 8.0-15.7 452 88.7 84.3-92.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 556 51 9.8 7.1-13.3 505 90.2 86.7-92.9
Non-Hispanic Black 183 23 13.1 7.4-22.1 160 86.9 77.9-92.6
Other 182 25 14.0 8.8-21.5 157 86.0 78.5-91.2
AGE
18-44 370 52 14.9 10.8-20.3 318 85.1 79.7-89.2
45-64 304 28 8.2 5.4-12.3 276 91.8 87.7-94.6
65+ 250 21 8.9 5.0-15.3 229 91.1 84.7-95.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 228 37 17.6 11.9-25.1 191 82.4 74.9-88.1
Some Post-H.S. 206 30 12.5 8.4-18.1 176 87.5 81.9-91.6
College Graduate 497 34 5.9 4.0- 8.5 463 94.1 91.5-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 240 40 15.5 10.7-22.0 200 84.5 78.0-89.3
$50,000+ 520 41 8.5 5.7-12.5 479 91.5 87.5-94.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 175 20 14.6 8.9-23.0 155 85.4 77.0-91.1

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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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