2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months has a lack of reliable transportation kept you from medical appointments, meetings, work, or from getting things needed for daily living?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,210 222 7.2 6.1- 8.6 2,988 92.8 91.4-93.9
Medicaid Region 5 812 53 6.9 4.6-10.2 759 93.1 89.8-95.4
GENDER
Male 327 18 7.6 4.0-14.0 309 92.4 86.0-96.0
Female 485 35 6.2 3.8-10.0 450 93.8 90.0-96.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 323 22 6.6 3.6-11.6 301 93.4 88.4-96.4
Non-Hispanic Black 140 17 10.6 5.7-18.9 123 89.4 81.1-94.3
Other 340 13 1.5 0.4- 5.6 327 98.5 94.4-99.6
AGE
18-44 242 22 9.6 5.3-16.9 220 90.4 83.1-94.7
45-64 305 18 4.7 2.5- 8.9 287 95.3 91.1-97.5
65+ 255 13 5.4 2.5-11.3 242 94.6 88.7-97.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 265 25 8.9 4.7-16.2 240 91.1 83.8-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 260 16 4.9 2.5- 9.5 244 95.1 90.5-97.5
College Graduate 285 12 6.4 3.1-13.0 273 93.6 87.0-96.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 305 35 12.4 7.2-20.6 270 87.6 79.4-92.8
$50,000+ 327 *** *** *** 318 96.7 92.9-98.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 180 *** *** *** 171 94.6 86.9-97.8

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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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