2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 519 101 16.7 13.0-21.1 418 83.3 78.9-87.0
GENDER
Male 231 33 10.0 6.8-14.6 198 90.0 85.4-93.2
Female 288 68 23.3 17.3-30.7 220 76.7 69.3-82.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 321 60 17.3 12.7-23.1 261 82.7 76.9-87.3
Non-Hispanic Black 119 26 16.5 9.7-26.7 93 83.5 73.3-90.3
Other 72 12 12.3 5.7-24.4 60 87.7 75.6-94.3
AGE
18-44 174 11 7.0 3.3-14.2 163 93.0 85.8-96.7
45-64 176 39 17.8 12.4-24.8 137 82.2 75.2-87.6
65+ 168 50 33.1 24.1-43.6 118 66.9 56.4-75.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 170 44 20.8 14.1-29.6 126 79.2 70.4-85.9
Some Post-H.S. 167 39 19.1 13.3-26.7 128 80.9 73.3-86.7
College Graduate 180 17 5.9 3.2-10.4 163 94.1 89.6-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 49 21.5 15.0-29.9 136 78.5 70.1-85.0
$50,000+ 232 28 10.5 6.8-15.8 204 89.5 84.2-93.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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