2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,991 365 7.4 6.3- 8.6 3,626 92.6 91.4-93.7
Medicaid Region 4 942 67 5.7 4.3- 7.5 875 94.3 92.5-95.7
GENDER
Male 432 41 8.4 5.9-11.9 391 91.6 88.1-94.1
Female 510 26 3.2 2.1- 4.9 484 96.8 95.1-97.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 561 52 7.7 5.6-10.5 509 92.3 89.5-94.4
Non-Hispanic Black 182 *** *** *** 173 96.4 91.9-98.4
Other 184 *** *** *** 179 98.4 95.2-99.5
AGE
18-44 372 *** *** *** 365 98.5 96.7-99.3
45-64 306 19 5.6 3.4- 9.2 287 94.4 90.8-96.6
65+ 252 40 15.6 10.6-22.3 212 84.4 77.7-89.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 228 14 3.9 2.1- 7.0 214 96.1 93.0-97.9
Some Post-H.S. 208 28 11.0 7.2-16.4 180 89.0 83.6-92.8
College Graduate 501 25 3.8 2.4- 6.1 476 96.2 93.9-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 240 20 5.3 3.2- 8.6 220 94.7 91.4-96.8
$50,000+ 524 32 4.7 3.2- 7.0 492 95.3 93.0-96.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 178 15 8.9 4.9-15.7 163 91.1 84.3-95.1

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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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