2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 681 319 47.1 42.4-51.9 61 9.8 6.9-13.7 90 12.7 10.1-15.9 75 8.8 6.8-11.3 136 21.5 17.7-25.9
GENDER
Male 297 136 47.3 39.9-54.7 28 10.2 6.1-16.5 32 10.7 7.3-15.5 34 8.8 6.0-12.8 67 23.1 17.4-29.9
Female 384 183 47.0 40.9-53.2 33 9.5 5.9-15.1 58 14.4 10.8-19.0 41 8.8 6.2-12.4 69 20.2 15.3-26.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 422 206 50.3 44.4-56.2 45 12.6 8.7-17.9 66 15.1 11.6-19.5 56 11.3 8.4-15.0 49 10.7 7.5-15.1
Non-Hispanic Black 144 62 42.2 32.2-52.8 *** *** *** 12 8.4 4.5-15.1 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 109 *** *** *** *** *** *** 12 11.0 5.7-20.2 14 10.3 5.6-18.4 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 244 85 34.9 28.1-42.4 15 9.7 5.1-17.8 47 16.6 12.2-22.1 33 11.1 7.6-15.9 64 27.6 21.1-35.3
45-64 236 109 48.7 40.8-56.8 25 10.0 6.0-16.3 30 13.4 8.9-19.7 28 8.8 5.7-13.2 44 19.1 13.3-26.6
65+ 193 120 68.2 59.5-75.9 20 9.9 5.6-16.8 13 4.0 2.2- 7.3 13 4.2 2.2- 7.7 27 13.7 8.9-20.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 146 90 57.8 47.6-67.4 *** *** *** 14 10.7 6.1-18.1 *** *** *** 25 20.6 13.1-31.0
Some Post-H.S. 166 86 50.3 40.8-59.7 15 13.5 7.1-24.2 20 10.5 6.4-16.8 *** *** *** 37 21.8 14.9-30.7
College Graduate 367 142 36.6 31.0-42.6 37 9.9 6.5-14.8 56 15.8 12.0-20.5 59 15.6 11.8-20.3 73 22.1 17.4-27.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 *** *** *** 14 12.5 5.6-25.7 20 11.6 7.0-18.6 *** *** *** 31 24.3 16.0-35.1
$50,000+ 403 164 40.8 34.9-47.0 36 9.7 6.4-14.6 61 14.8 11.2-19.3 57 11.9 8.9-15.8 85 22.8 17.7-28.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 129 76 63.5 52.9-72.9 11 7.3 3.3-15.2 *** *** *** 13 6.2 3.2-11.4 20 15.1 9.3-23.8

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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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