2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 798 32 6.5 3.8-10.8 766 93.5 89.2-96.2
GENDER
Male 323 13 7.5 3.3-16.1 310 92.5 83.9-96.7
Female 475 19 5.7 3.0-10.3 456 94.3 89.7-97.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 318 *** *** *** 315 98.4 93.6-99.6
Non-Hispanic Black 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 332 11 5.1 1.7-13.9 321 94.9 86.1-98.3
AGE
18-44 240 16 5.5 2.7-10.8 224 94.5 89.2-97.3
45-64 295 *** *** *** 285 92.1 84.0-96.3
65+ 253 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 257 13 6.2 2.2-16.1 244 93.8 83.9-97.8
Some Post-H.S. 256 *** *** *** 246 92.3 84.7-96.3
College Graduate 283 *** *** *** 274 94.6 87.3-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 299 17 12.0 5.9-22.8 282 88.0 77.2-94.1
$50,000+ 321 *** *** *** 314 95.9 89.7-98.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 178 *** *** *** 170 96.6 89.0-99.0

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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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