2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Region 5 578 60 10.5 7.8-14.1 518 89.5 85.9-92.2
GENDER
Male 257 26 11.8 7.5-18.1 231 88.2 81.9-92.5
Female 321 34 9.4 6.3-13.8 287 90.6 86.2-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 363 25 7.9 5.0-12.1 338 92.1 87.9-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 108 13 15.8 8.5-27.5 95 84.2 72.5-91.5
Other 97 21 14.4 8.5-23.5 76 85.6 76.5-91.5
AGE
18-44 209 25 11.0 7.1-16.7 184 89.0 83.3-92.9
45-64 192 34 18.5 12.4-26.7 158 81.5 73.3-87.6
65+ 163 *** *** *** 163 100 . - .
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 160 32 17.1 11.2-25.2 128 82.9 74.8-88.8
Some Post-H.S. 131 15 11.1 6.5-18.4 116 88.9 81.6-93.5
College Graduate 282 13 3.3 1.7- 6.3 269 96.7 93.7-98.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 158 31 21.0 14.2-29.8 127 79.0 70.2-85.8
$50,000+ 283 11 4.2 2.0- 8.3 272 95.8 91.7-98.0
Don't know/Not Sure 128 17 12.0 6.4-21.2 111 88.0 78.8-93.6

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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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