2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Reactions to Race

Within the past 12 months, do you feel that in general you were treated worse than, the same as, or better than people of other races?

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  Total
Respond.^
Worse than other races The same as other races Better than other races
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,775 292 10.8 9.3-12.5 1,965 72.4 70.1-74.5 518 16.8 15.1-18.6
Medicaid Region 6 353 39 9.9 6.6-14.7 265 78.6 72.9-83.4 49 11.5 8.2-15.9
GENDER
Male 142 15 10.4 5.3-19.3 113 81.2 71.7-88.0 14 8.4 4.4-15.6
Female 211 24 9.4 5.9-14.8 152 76.1 68.8-82.2 35 14.4 9.8-20.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 219 *** *** *** 175 82.4 75.6-87.5 39 15.9 10.9-22.6
Non-Hispanic Black 91 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 42 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 101 12 9.3 4.3-19.2 71 76.6 65.8-84.8 18 14.1 8.3-22.8
45-64 129 19 13.5 7.7-22.6 97 78.0 67.9-85.5 13 8.5 4.2-16.6
65+ 122 *** *** *** 96 82.2 73.1-88.7 18 11.1 6.4-18.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 98 *** *** *** 79 84.4 75.0-90.7 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 130 16 10.8 5.5-19.9 98 78.3 68.2-85.8 16 11.0 6.1-19.0
College Graduate 123 12 11.2 5.6-21.2 87 71.7 61.1-80.4 24 17.1 10.8-25.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 120 20 16.5 9.2-27.8 *** *** *** 12 10.1 4.8-19.7
$50,000+ 163 11 5.9 2.9-11.7 122 79.7 72.1-85.6 30 14.4 9.6-21.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 70 *** *** *** 55 85.2 74.3-92.0 *** *** ***

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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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