2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months, have you received food stamps, also called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on an EBT card?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,220 393 11.4 9.9-13.1 2,827 88.6 86.9-90.1
Medicaid Region 2 482 58 13.6 10.1-18.1 424 86.4 81.9-89.9
GENDER
Male 205 15 6.4 3.2-12.3 190 93.6 87.7-96.8
Female 277 43 20.1 14.4-27.3 234 79.9 72.7-85.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 352 30 8.2 5.4-12.3 322 91.8 87.7-94.6
Non-Hispanic Black 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 136 25 19.5 12.9-28.3 111 80.5 71.7-87.1
45-64 179 19 10.8 5.8-19.2 160 89.2 80.8-94.2
65+ 160 14 9.1 4.5-17.6 146 90.9 82.4-95.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 149 34 22.4 15.1-31.9 115 77.6 68.1-84.9
Some Post-H.S. 125 15 10.7 5.9-18.7 110 89.3 81.3-94.1
College Graduate 205 *** *** *** 197 95.4 90.2-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 151 36 23.6 16.3-32.9 115 76.4 67.1-83.7
$50,000+ 213 *** *** *** 209 97.3 92.8-99.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 118 *** *** *** 100 81.2 69.0-89.3

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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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