2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Immunization

Have you ever had a pneumonia shot also known as a pneumococcal vaccine?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,663 1,446 34.9 32.8-37.1 2,217 65.1 62.9-67.2
Medicaid Region 6 479 198 33.5 28.7-38.8 281 66.5 61.2-71.3
GENDER
Male 209 84 33.9 26.9-41.7 125 66.1 58.3-73.1
Female 270 114 33.2 26.8-40.4 156 66.8 59.6-73.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 296 134 36.6 30.4-43.4 162 63.4 56.6-69.6
Non-Hispanic Black 112 41 29.0 20.2-39.5 71 71.0 60.5-79.8
Other 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 149 27 15.7 10.3-23.3 122 84.3 76.7-89.7
45-64 166 45 23.2 16.5-31.7 121 76.8 68.3-83.5
65+ 163 125 75.3 65.0-83.3 38 24.7 16.7-35.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 154 60 28.7 21.3-37.4 94 71.3 62.6-78.7
Some Post-H.S. 153 67 39.0 30.3-48.4 86 61.0 51.6-69.7
College Graduate 170 71 32.3 24.9-40.7 99 67.7 59.3-75.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 169 63 30.9 23.1-40.0 106 69.1 60.0-76.9
$50,000+ 218 92 34.4 27.4-42.1 126 65.6 57.9-72.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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