2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,991 365 7.4 6.3- 8.6 3,626 92.6 91.4-93.7
Medicaid Region 6 522 58 10.1 7.2-14.0 464 89.9 86.0-92.8
GENDER
Male 231 29 10.0 6.4-15.2 202 90.0 84.8-93.6
Female 291 29 10.3 6.1-16.7 262 89.7 83.3-93.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 323 45 14.2 9.7-20.1 278 85.8 79.9-90.3
Non-Hispanic Black 120 *** *** *** 115 97.9 94.4-99.3
Other 72 *** *** *** 65 92.2 80.7-97.1
AGE
18-44 174 *** *** *** 167 95.9 90.2-98.3
45-64 174 17 10.3 5.7-18.0 157 89.7 82.0-94.3
65+ 173 34 20.7 13.4-30.7 139 79.3 69.3-86.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 172 24 14.6 8.6-23.5 148 85.4 76.5-91.4
Some Post-H.S. 166 16 6.7 3.8-11.6 150 93.3 88.4-96.2
College Graduate 182 18 8.9 5.0-15.2 164 91.1 84.8-95.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 188 23 8.9 5.3-14.6 165 91.1 85.4-94.7
$50,000+ 232 22 9.6 5.8-15.5 210 90.4 84.5-94.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 102 13 13.2 6.1-26.2 89 86.8 73.8-93.9

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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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