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 3,973 304 7.9 6.8- 9.2 3,669 92.1 90.8-93.2
Medicaid Region 2 561 49 9.7 6.8-13.6 512 90.3 86.4-93.2
GENDER
Male 239 15 6.5 3.3-12.4 224 93.5 87.6-96.7
Female 322 34 12.6 8.4-18.5 288 87.4 81.5-91.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 398 34 8.6 5.8-12.7 364 91.4 87.3-94.2
Non-Hispanic Black 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 73 *** *** *** 66 88.7 75.1-95.4
AGE
18-44 179 *** *** *** 169 95.9 92.3-97.9
45-64 202 19 13.7 7.9-22.7 183 86.3 77.3-92.1
65+ 171 20 15.3 8.6-25.6 151 84.7 74.4-91.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 179 24 11.9 7.2-19.2 155 88.1 80.8-92.8
Some Post-H.S. 136 12 10.7 5.5-19.7 124 89.3 80.3-94.5
College Graduate 243 13 5.6 3.0-10.1 230 94.4 89.9-97.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 184 29 14.6 9.6-21.4 155 85.4 78.6-90.4
$50,000+ 241 *** *** *** 234 95.8 89.9-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 136 13 12.6 6.2-23.8 123 87.4 76.2-93.8

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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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