2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 510 65 12.1 8.9-16.2 445 87.9 83.8-91.1
GENDER
Male 242 21 9.9 5.5-17.0 221 90.1 83.0-94.5
Female 268 44 14.2 10.0-19.7 224 85.8 80.3-90.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 289 38 13.0 9.0-18.3 251 87.0 81.7-91.0
Non-Hispanic Black 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 99 *** *** *** 90 93.5 82.8-97.7
AGE
18-44 209 *** *** *** 201 94.0 86.7-97.4
45-64 162 27 17.2 11.2-25.6 135 82.8 74.4-88.8
65+ 129 28 18.1 11.3-27.8 101 81.9 72.2-88.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 148 27 17.9 11.3-27.2 121 82.1 72.8-88.7
Some Post-H.S. 137 16 8.7 4.9-15.0 121 91.3 85.0-95.1
College Graduate 221 22 9.4 5.3-16.0 199 90.6 84.0-94.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 151 30 18.8 12.1-28.1 121 81.2 71.9-87.9
$50,000+ 242 14 6.9 3.4-13.4 228 93.1 86.6-96.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 117 21 14.9 8.7-24.2 96 85.1 75.8-91.3

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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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