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 4,224 642 13.9 12.7-15.2 3,582 86.1 84.8-87.3
Medicaid Region 2 601 89 12.5 9.8-15.8 512 87.5 84.2-90.2
GENDER
Male 271 32 11.1 7.5-16.1 239 88.9 83.9-92.5
Female 330 57 13.7 10.0-18.4 273 86.3 81.6-90.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 392 69 14.6 11.1-18.9 323 85.4 81.1-88.9
Non-Hispanic Black 100 13 11.2 6.0-20.1 87 88.8 79.9-94.0
Other 107 *** *** *** 100 96.1 91.4-98.3
AGE
18-44 210 11 4.9 2.5- 9.3 199 95.1 90.7-97.5
45-64 199 32 13.8 9.3-20.0 167 86.2 80.0-90.7
65+ 182 46 25.2 18.2-33.8 136 74.8 66.2-81.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 201 34 14.3 9.7-20.7 167 85.7 79.3-90.3
Some Post-H.S. 164 25 11.7 7.5-18.0 139 88.3 82.0-92.5
College Graduate 233 29 10.7 7.1-15.9 204 89.3 84.1-92.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 203 41 18.1 12.6-25.2 162 81.9 74.8-87.4
$50,000+ 244 23 8.2 5.1-12.8 221 91.8 87.2-94.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 154 25 12.6 8.0-19.4 129 87.4 80.6-92.0

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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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