2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Reactions to Race

How often do you think about your race? Would you say never, once a year, once a month, once a week, once a day, once an hour, or constantly?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Never Once a year Once a month Once a week Once a day/once an hour/constantly
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,066 1,799 57.8 55.7-59.9 240 7.9 6.8- 9.1 308 10.2 9.0-11.5 257 8.2 7.1- 9.4 462 16.0 14.4-17.6
Medicaid Region 2 457 291 64.2 58.7-69.3 34 8.5 5.7-12.5 37 9.0 6.2-12.8 30 5.7 3.8- 8.4 65 12.8 9.7-16.7
GENDER
Male 189 122 66.0 57.8-73.4 16 7.9 4.6-13.2 12 6.0 3.3-10.7 14 5.8 3.1-10.9 25 14.2 9.1-21.5
Female 268 169 62.7 55.2-69.6 18 8.9 5.0-15.4 25 11.3 7.2-17.5 16 5.5 3.3- 9.1 40 11.6 8.2-16.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 319 237 72.8 66.4-78.5 22 8.9 5.4-14.2 29 10.3 6.8-15.3 16 4.5 2.5- 7.9 15 3.5 2.0- 6.1
Non-Hispanic Black 74 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 63 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 134 58 50.3 40.4-60.2 13 9.9 5.1-18.3 17 12.1 7.2-19.8 17 10.2 6.0-16.8 29 17.5 11.5-25.7
45-64 159 101 64.2 55.1-72.3 13 9.8 5.1-17.8 11 8.5 4.4-15.5 *** *** *** 26 13.7 9.1-20.3
65+ 157 126 81.3 72.2-87.9 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 145 95 67.8 58.3-76.1 13 8.9 4.6-16.3 *** *** *** *** *** *** 25 14.9 9.4-22.6
Some Post-H.S. 130 92 68.0 57.7-76.8 *** *** *** 13 11.7 6.4-20.3 *** *** *** 12 8.6 4.5-16.0
College Graduate 182 104 54.7 46.2-62.9 12 6.6 3.5-12.1 20 12.4 7.6-19.6 18 10.9 6.7-17.2 28 15.4 10.5-22.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 144 96 66.9 56.7-75.7 12 8.1 3.8-16.2 *** *** *** *** *** *** 22 14.9 9.1-23.4
$50,000+ 194 116 60.8 52.3-68.6 15 9.7 5.3-16.9 25 13.9 9.1-20.7 18 7.3 4.5-11.7 20 8.4 5.2-13.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 79 66.9 56.0-76.2 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 23 17.9 11.2-27.5

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*Other includes Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, mixed race, or some other group

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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