2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,215 213 4.8 4.1- 5.7 4,002 95.2 94.3-95.9
Medicaid Region 4 1,111 49 4.3 3.0- 6.2 1,062 95.7 93.8-97.0
GENDER
Male 496 17 3.2 1.7- 6.0 479 96.8 94.0-98.3
Female 615 32 5.3 3.4- 8.3 583 94.7 91.7-96.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 639 17 2.0 1.2- 3.4 622 98.0 96.6-98.8
Non-Hispanic Black 205 12 7.7 3.7-15.4 193 92.3 84.6-96.3
Other 254 20 7.4 4.4-12.2 234 92.6 87.8-95.6
AGE
18-44 478 16 3.0 1.7- 5.2 462 97.0 94.8-98.3
45-64 357 18 5.1 2.7- 9.2 339 94.9 90.8-97.3
65+ 253 14 6.2 2.8-13.0 239 93.8 87.0-97.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 304 23 7.6 4.3-13.1 281 92.4 86.9-95.7
Some Post-H.S. 268 14 3.8 2.1- 6.6 254 96.2 93.4-97.9
College Graduate 536 12 1.8 1.0- 3.3 524 98.2 96.7-99.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 297 21 6.1 3.7- 9.8 276 93.9 90.2-96.3
$50,000+ 536 11 2.4 1.1- 5.2 525 97.6 94.8-98.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 278 17 6.1 3.1-11.7 261 93.9 88.3-96.9

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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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