2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months has a lack of reliable transportation kept you from medical appointments, meetings, work, or from getting things needed for daily living?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,393 191 5.3 4.4- 6.3 3,202 94.7 93.7-95.6
Medicaid Region 3 667 47 6.1 4.3- 8.6 620 93.9 91.4-95.7
GENDER
Male 300 23 6.8 4.3-10.4 277 93.2 89.6-95.7
Female 367 24 5.5 3.2- 9.5 343 94.5 90.5-96.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 384 16 4.0 2.3- 6.8 368 96.0 93.2-97.7
Non-Hispanic Black 138 11 7.8 3.4-16.8 127 92.2 83.2-96.6
Other 142 19 11.2 6.8-17.7 123 88.8 82.3-93.2
AGE
18-44 246 21 7.5 4.7-11.6 225 92.5 88.4-95.3
45-64 227 19 7.2 3.8-13.2 208 92.8 86.8-96.2
65+ 178 *** *** *** 172 97.9 95.2-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 201 25 8.3 5.3-12.7 176 91.7 87.3-94.7
Some Post-H.S. 177 13 7.4 3.6-14.4 164 92.6 85.6-96.4
College Graduate 287 *** *** *** 278 97.3 94.4-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 189 23 9.8 6.1-15.3 166 90.2 84.7-93.9
$50,000+ 312 *** *** *** 302 97.3 94.7-98.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 14 8.3 4.1-16.0 152 91.7 84.0-95.9

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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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