2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Reactions to Race

Within the past 30 days, have you experienced any physical symptoms, for example, a headache, an upset stomach, tensing of your muscles, or a pounding heart, as a result of how you were treated based on your race?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,139 139 5.5 4.4- 6.8 3,000 94.5 93.2-95.6
Medicaid Region 4 743 40 5.8 4.0- 8.3 703 94.2 91.7-96.0
GENDER
Male 331 12 4.2 2.1- 8.5 319 95.8 91.5-97.9
Female 412 28 7.2 4.7-10.9 384 92.8 89.1-95.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 443 *** *** *** 438 98.5 96.3-99.4
Non-Hispanic Black 153 18 11.6 6.5-19.7 135 88.4 80.3-93.5
Other 137 16 11.5 6.4-19.8 121 88.5 80.2-93.6
AGE
18-44 266 17 6.6 3.8-11.3 249 93.4 88.7-96.2
45-64 259 17 6.5 3.6-11.6 242 93.5 88.4-96.4
65+ 209 *** *** *** 204 97.4 92.9-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 185 13 7.1 3.7-13.1 172 92.9 86.9-96.3
Some Post-H.S. 170 14 7.3 3.9-13.3 156 92.7 86.7-96.1
College Graduate 384 13 3.7 2.0- 6.9 371 96.3 93.1-98.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 17 9.2 5.0-16.1 166 90.8 83.9-95.0
$50,000+ 415 15 4.2 2.3- 7.6 400 95.8 92.4-97.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 145 *** *** *** 137 93.8 87.1-97.1

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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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