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 3,973 655 14.1 12.6-15.6 3,318 85.9 84.4-87.4
Medicaid Region 2 561 88 14.8 11.3-19.3 473 85.2 80.7-88.7
GENDER
Male 238 31 12.4 7.8-19.3 207 87.6 80.7-92.2
Female 323 57 16.9 12.1-23.2 266 83.1 76.8-87.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 398 67 16.0 11.8-21.5 331 84.0 78.5-88.2
Non-Hispanic Black 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 73 *** *** *** 65 90.3 77.5-96.2
AGE
18-44 179 *** *** *** 170 95.9 91.8-98.0
45-64 201 35 19.8 13.1-28.9 166 80.2 71.1-86.9
65+ 172 *** *** *** 128 71.1 60.0-80.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 179 35 19.2 12.7-28.0 144 80.8 72.0-87.3
Some Post-H.S. 136 25 15.0 9.2-23.5 111 85.0 76.5-90.8
College Graduate 243 28 8.5 5.5-13.0 215 91.5 87.0-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 47 21.3 15.0-29.4 138 78.7 70.6-85.0
$50,000+ 240 21 7.8 4.5-13.2 219 92.2 86.8-95.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 136 20 18.0 10.1-30.1 116 82.0 69.9-89.9

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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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