2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 679 61 8.5 6.4-11.3 618 91.5 88.7-93.6
GENDER
Male 307 25 7.8 4.9-12.1 282 92.2 87.9-95.1
Female 372 36 9.2 6.3-13.1 336 90.8 86.9-93.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 378 25 7.2 4.7-10.9 353 92.8 89.1-95.3
Non-Hispanic Black 144 15 8.5 4.6-15.0 129 91.5 85.0-95.4
Other 144 19 12.1 6.9-20.4 125 87.9 79.6-93.1
AGE
18-44 264 32 10.7 7.2-15.6 232 89.3 84.4-92.8
45-64 227 22 8.4 5.2-13.5 205 91.6 86.5-94.8
65+ 183 *** *** *** 177 96.7 91.9-98.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 178 23 12.5 8.0-19.0 155 87.5 81.0-92.0
Some Post-H.S. 151 15 8.3 4.7-14.2 136 91.7 85.8-95.3
College Graduate 348 22 5.1 3.2- 8.2 326 94.9 91.8-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 178 28 14.9 9.6-22.3 150 85.1 77.7-90.4
$50,000+ 367 21 5.6 3.5- 8.9 346 94.4 91.1-96.5
Don't know/Not Sure 130 *** *** *** 120 92.4 84.6-96.4

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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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