2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the last 12 months was there a time when an electric, gas, oil, or water company threatened to shut off services?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,211 217 6.8 5.6- 8.1 2,994 93.2 91.9-94.4
Medicaid Region 5 809 66 9.4 6.0-14.5 743 90.6 85.5-94.0
GENDER
Male 327 18 9.2 4.0-19.9 309 90.8 80.1-96.0
Female 482 48 9.6 6.1-15.0 434 90.4 85.0-93.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 322 18 4.8 2.6- 8.7 304 95.2 91.3-97.4
Non-Hispanic Black 137 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 340 27 14.9 7.4-27.6 313 85.1 72.4-92.6
AGE
18-44 243 27 13.4 6.8-24.7 216 86.6 75.3-93.2
45-64 305 28 10.1 5.8-16.9 277 89.9 83.1-94.2
65+ 253 11 2.3 0.8- 6.3 242 97.7 93.7-99.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 30 13.2 6.4-25.4 232 86.8 74.6-93.6
Some Post-H.S. 260 20 8.5 4.7-14.8 240 91.5 85.2-95.3
College Graduate 285 16 5.2 2.4-10.9 269 94.8 89.1-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 303 44 17.9 11.7-26.2 259 82.1 73.8-88.3
$50,000+ 327 11 3.6 1.5- 8.4 316 96.4 91.6-98.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 179 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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