2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,984 242 5.9 4.9- 7.0 3,742 94.1 93.0-95.1
Medicaid Region 2 564 42 8.7 5.8-12.6 522 91.3 87.4-94.2
GENDER
Male 242 17 6.8 3.6-12.5 225 93.2 87.5-96.4
Female 322 25 10.4 6.3-16.6 297 89.6 83.4-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 399 24 7.3 4.4-11.8 375 92.7 88.2-95.6
Non-Hispanic Black 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 74 *** *** *** 68 96.2 91.1-98.4
AGE
18-44 182 *** *** *** 175 96.1 91.1-98.3
45-64 202 19 11.1 6.2-19.0 183 88.9 81.0-93.8
65+ 171 16 15.1 7.9-26.9 155 84.9 73.1-92.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 180 19 13.5 7.9-22.2 161 86.5 77.8-92.1
Some Post-H.S. 138 11 5.7 2.6-11.7 127 94.3 88.3-97.4
College Graduate 243 11 4.2 2.2- 8.2 232 95.8 91.8-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 15 8.2 4.4-14.7 170 91.8 85.3-95.6
$50,000+ 242 14 4.5 2.4- 8.1 228 95.5 91.9-97.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 137 13 15.9 8.4-28.3 124 84.1 71.7-91.6

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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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