2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 700 87 13.4 9.8-18.2 613 86.6 81.8-90.2
GENDER
Male 291 23 7.3 4.2-12.3 268 92.7 87.7-95.8
Female 409 64 19.4 13.4-27.4 345 80.6 72.6-86.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 293 29 12.0 7.7-18.2 264 88.0 81.8-92.3
Non-Hispanic Black 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 315 46 17.5 10.2-28.4 269 82.5 71.6-89.8
AGE
18-44 212 35 16.0 10.6-23.5 177 84.0 76.5-89.4
45-64 256 41 19.5 11.5-31.1 215 80.5 68.9-88.5
65+ 223 11 2.2 0.8- 6.2 212 97.8 93.8-99.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 249 52 22.6 15.0-32.7 197 77.4 67.3-85.0
Some Post-H.S. 211 20 7.4 3.9-13.6 191 92.6 86.4-96.1
College Graduate 237 14 6.6 3.2-13.0 223 93.4 87.0-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 265 49 23.6 15.2-34.7 216 76.4 65.3-84.8
$50,000+ 269 16 9.1 5.2-15.4 253 90.9 84.6-94.8
Don't know/Not Sure 159 21 7.3 3.4-14.7 138 92.7 85.3-96.6

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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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