2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 754 455 62.5 56.8-67.8 71 10.8 8.0-14.5 74 8.3 5.7-12.0 47 5.8 3.8- 8.8 107 12.5 9.1-17.0
GENDER
Male 304 188 69.8 61.6-77.0 20 9.1 5.4-15.1 30 4.7 2.2- 9.8 17 6.2 3.1-11.9 49 10.2 6.8-15.1
Female 450 267 56.4 48.9-63.6 51 12.2 8.4-17.4 44 11.3 7.4-17.0 30 5.6 3.3- 9.3 58 14.5 9.3-21.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 315 232 74.5 67.9-80.2 33 11.1 7.6-16.1 16 3.8 2.0- 7.0 14 3.6 2.0- 6.5 20 6.9 3.9-12.1
Non-Hispanic Black 134 *** *** *** 14 8.0 4.0-15.3 19 16.6 9.6-27.1 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 298 *** *** *** 23 13.2 6.1-26.2 38 8.4 3.5-18.7 24 7.9 2.7-20.7 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 217 113 56.3 46.8-65.3 29 13.5 8.6-20.6 25 10.6 6.0-18.1 17 6.6 3.5-12.2 33 13.0 7.9-20.7
45-64 286 166 57.6 47.6-67.0 21 8.4 4.9-14.1 28 9.2 4.9-16.4 21 7.1 3.5-13.9 50 17.8 10.8-27.9
65+ 241 169 77.2 68.2-84.3 20 9.9 5.3-17.9 20 3.4 1.7- 6.9 *** *** *** 23 5.9 3.2-10.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 229 149 67.4 56.6-76.6 13 9.6 5.3-16.9 24 6.8 3.5-13.0 *** *** *** 36 14.2 7.9-24.4
Some Post-H.S. 248 163 65.7 56.4-74.0 20 7.6 4.1-13.7 18 8.4 4.2-16.4 16 8.1 4.2-14.9 31 10.1 5.9-16.9
College Graduate 275 142 50.4 41.9-58.8 38 17.0 11.4-24.7 32 10.4 6.1-17.4 23 8.6 4.7-15.0 40 13.6 8.8-20.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 285 166 58.8 48.1-68.7 27 11.4 6.9-18.4 27 5.6 3.0-10.2 15 4.9 1.8-12.4 50 19.2 11.6-30.2
$50,000+ 310 189 62.1 54.1-69.6 35 12.4 8.1-18.6 31 9.3 5.3-15.8 20 6.8 3.9-11.7 35 9.4 5.8-14.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 159 *** *** *** *** *** *** 16 10.4 4.9-20.8 12 5.4 2.4-11.8 22 9.0 4.9-16.0

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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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