2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months, have you received food stamps, also called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on an EBT card?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,220 393 11.4 9.9-13.1 2,827 88.6 86.9-90.1
Medicaid Region 6 413 60 13.9 10.0-18.8 353 86.1 81.2-90.0
GENDER
Male 166 14 6.5 3.3-12.3 152 93.5 87.7-96.7
Female 247 46 20.5 14.4-28.3 201 79.5 71.7-85.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 251 27 11.0 6.9-17.2 224 89.0 82.8-93.1
Non-Hispanic Black 110 24 19.5 11.9-30.4 86 80.5 69.6-88.1
Other 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 119 25 18.0 11.1-28.0 94 82.0 72.0-88.9
45-64 149 25 15.3 9.3-24.2 124 84.7 75.8-90.7
65+ 144 *** *** *** 134 94.0 86.9-97.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 124 25 22.1 13.7-33.8 99 77.9 66.2-86.3
Some Post-H.S. 149 23 11.2 6.9-17.7 126 88.8 82.3-93.1
College Graduate 138 12 7.1 3.4-14.3 126 92.9 85.7-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 145 42 26.1 17.8-36.6 103 73.9 63.4-82.2
$50,000+ 183 *** *** *** 180 97.3 91.9-99.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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