2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months has a lack of reliable transportation kept you from medical appointments, meetings, work, or from getting things needed for daily living?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,210 222 7.2 6.1- 8.6 2,988 92.8 91.4-93.9
Medicaid Region 4 760 53 8.1 5.7-11.3 707 91.9 88.7-94.3
GENDER
Male 339 25 10.6 6.5-16.8 314 89.4 83.2-93.5
Female 421 28 5.8 3.9- 8.6 393 94.2 91.4-96.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 451 14 3.0 1.7- 5.2 437 97.0 94.8-98.3
Non-Hispanic Black 158 20 17.8 10.5-28.4 138 82.2 71.6-89.5
Other 139 18 11.5 6.6-19.4 121 88.5 80.6-93.4
AGE
18-44 270 26 10.6 6.7-16.3 244 89.4 83.7-93.3
45-64 264 17 5.0 2.8- 8.6 247 95.0 91.4-97.2
65+ 216 *** *** *** 206 91.5 79.9-96.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 190 28 15.8 9.9-24.4 162 84.2 75.6-90.1
Some Post-H.S. 174 12 4.4 2.3- 8.1 162 95.6 91.9-97.7
College Graduate 392 13 4.2 2.2- 8.0 379 95.8 92.0-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 187 35 19.4 12.9-28.2 152 80.6 71.8-87.1
$50,000+ 425 *** *** *** 415 97.6 95.4-98.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 148 *** *** *** 140 89.6 78.2-95.4

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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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