2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Alcohol Consumption

During the past 30 days, on the days when you drank, about how many drinks did you drink on the average?
(A 40 ounce beer would count as 3 drinks, or a cocktail drink with 2 shots would count as 2 drinks.)*

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  Total
Respond.^
Only one Two Three Four Five or more
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,853 708 35.7 33.2-38.3 660 35.4 32.8-38.0 222 13.0 11.2-15.0 112 6.5 5.2- 8.0 151 9.4 7.9-11.3
Medicaid Region 4 532 222 40.1 35.4-45.0 186 33.9 29.5-38.6 53 11.0 8.1-14.8 33 7.2 4.9-10.5 38 7.8 5.5-10.9
GENDER
Male 260 85 30.4 24.4-37.2 91 33.1 26.8-40.0 32 15.2 10.4-21.7 24 10.4 6.6-16.0 28 10.9 7.4-15.9
Female 272 137 50.9 44.2-57.5 95 34.7 28.8-41.2 21 6.4 4.0-10.1 *** *** *** *** *** ***
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 354 155 42.2 36.4-48.1 129 33.8 28.6-39.4 32 10.3 7.0-15.0 19 6.9 4.3-11.2 19 6.8 4.2-10.7
Non-Hispanic Black 82 *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 16.4 8.7-28.8 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 89 26 26.4 17.5-37.7 27 29.3 20.0-40.8 *** *** *** *** *** *** 14 19.4 11.2-31.4
AGE
18-44 247 83 34.7 28.2-41.9 95 36.4 30.0-43.3 26 10.6 6.8-16.2 17 6.9 3.8-12.0 26 11.4 7.5-16.8
45-64 173 62 33.7 26.2-42.2 66 36.7 28.9-45.3 22 13.5 8.4-21.2 13 10.4 5.9-17.8 *** *** ***
65+ 103 *** *** *** 25 23.5 15.4-34.0 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 97 *** *** *** 23 22.0 14.2-32.6 13 11.7 6.3-20.9 15 18.1 10.6-29.1 19 17.4 10.8-26.8
Some Post-H.S. 124 49 37.6 28.7-47.4 48 36.5 27.8-46.3 12 13.3 7.4-22.6 *** *** *** 12 9.2 5.0-16.5
College Graduate 311 146 46.6 40.6-52.6 115 37.9 32.3-43.9 28 9.1 6.0-13.6 15 4.3 2.5- 7.3 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 116 39 31.3 22.9-41.3 38 36.0 26.8-46.3 11 8.3 3.8-17.1 *** *** *** 18 15.9 9.8-24.8
$50,000+ 321 132 39.3 33.3-45.6 120 35.8 30.1-42.0 34 12.1 8.4-17.3 20 7.4 4.5-11.9 15 5.4 3.1- 9.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 95 *** *** *** 28 24.4 16.4-34.7 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported drinking at least one drink in the last month.

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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