2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,231 370 8.2 7.2- 9.2 3,861 91.8 90.8-92.8
Medicaid Region 2 599 52 8.4 6.1-11.6 547 91.6 88.4-93.9
GENDER
Male 270 31 10.2 6.8-15.0 239 89.8 85.0-93.2
Female 329 21 6.9 4.0-11.5 308 93.1 88.5-96.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 391 46 11.8 8.4-16.4 345 88.2 83.6-91.6
Non-Hispanic Black 99 *** *** *** 98 99.3 95.3-99.9
Other 107 *** *** *** 102 96.7 91.0-98.8
AGE
18-44 211 *** *** *** 203 94.9 89.5-97.6
45-64 199 12 7.7 4.1-14.1 187 92.3 85.9-95.9
65+ 180 32 15.9 10.4-23.4 148 84.1 76.6-89.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 199 20 9.4 5.5-15.5 179 90.6 84.5-94.5
Some Post-H.S. 165 12 8.2 4.3-14.9 153 91.8 85.1-95.7
College Graduate 232 20 7.6 4.6-12.3 212 92.4 87.7-95.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 203 20 10.1 6.0-16.4 183 89.9 83.6-94.0
$50,000+ 244 15 5.3 2.7-10.1 229 94.7 89.9-97.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 152 17 11.8 6.7-19.8 135 88.2 80.2-93.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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