2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Sugar Sweetened Beverages

HNC2030 sugar-sweetened beverage indicator*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,288 941 30.4 28.5-32.3 2,347 69.6 67.7-71.5
Medicaid Region 3 647 189 30.5 26.4-35.0 458 69.5 65.0-73.6
GENDER
Male 291 100 33.8 27.8-40.4 191 66.2 59.6-72.2
Female 356 89 27.6 22.1-33.9 267 72.4 66.1-77.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 373 103 31.4 25.9-37.5 270 68.6 62.5-74.1
Non-Hispanic Black 132 47 33.8 25.1-43.7 85 66.2 56.3-74.9
Other 139 39 24.1 17.2-32.7 100 75.9 67.3-82.8
AGE
18-44 236 82 33.1 26.7-40.3 154 66.9 59.7-73.3
45-64 222 61 27.2 21.0-34.4 161 72.8 65.6-79.0
65+ 174 43 31.1 22.2-41.8 131 68.9 58.2-77.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 197 71 35.5 27.8-44.1 126 64.5 55.9-72.2
Some Post-H.S. 173 52 30.1 23.0-38.4 121 69.9 61.6-77.0
College Graduate 276 65 25.0 19.6-31.3 211 75.0 68.7-80.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 61 32.7 25.3-41.2 121 67.3 58.8-74.7
$50,000+ 303 81 27.8 22.3-34.1 222 72.2 65.9-77.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 162 47 33.0 24.3-43.1 115 67.0 56.9-75.7

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*Yes=1+ drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

No=Less than 1 drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

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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