2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 813 130 13.2 9.8-17.6 683 86.8 82.4-90.2
GENDER
Male 328 31 8.4 4.9-13.9 297 91.6 86.1-95.1
Female 485 99 17.4 12.2-24.2 386 82.6 75.8-87.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 323 31 8.9 5.2-14.7 292 91.1 85.3-94.8
Non-Hispanic Black 140 36 19.9 12.6-30.0 104 80.1 70.0-87.4
Other 340 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 242 45 14.4 9.0-22.2 197 85.6 77.8-91.0
45-64 305 39 11.6 6.6-19.6 266 88.4 80.4-93.4
65+ 255 45 13.9 7.8-23.5 210 86.1 76.5-92.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 264 71 22.3 14.8-32.2 193 77.7 67.8-85.2
Some Post-H.S. 260 43 10.0 6.2-15.7 217 90.0 84.3-93.8
College Graduate 287 16 3.8 1.6- 8.7 271 96.2 91.3-98.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 305 86 25.1 17.5-34.7 219 74.9 65.3-82.5
$50,000+ 327 12 3.0 1.2- 7.2 315 97.0 92.8-98.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 181 32 14.7 8.0-25.2 149 85.3 74.8-92.0

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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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