2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,231 370 8.2 7.2- 9.2 3,861 91.8 90.8-92.8
Medicaid Region 5 574 53 8.9 6.6-12.1 521 91.1 87.9-93.4
GENDER
Male 268 31 11.7 7.9-17.0 237 88.3 83.0-92.1
Female 306 22 6.5 3.9-10.5 284 93.5 89.5-96.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 362 32 8.5 5.8-12.4 330 91.5 87.6-94.2
Non-Hispanic Black 99 *** *** *** 89 90.2 81.7-95.0
Other 104 *** *** *** 94 92.0 83.4-96.4
AGE
18-44 217 *** *** *** 210 97.1 93.7-98.7
45-64 183 18 12.0 7.4-18.9 165 88.0 81.1-92.6
65+ 169 28 17.0 10.9-25.5 141 83.0 74.5-89.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 27 11.0 7.1-16.5 177 89.0 83.5-92.9
Some Post-H.S. 162 11 8.4 4.5-15.1 151 91.6 84.9-95.5
College Graduate 206 15 6.8 3.7-12.1 191 93.2 87.9-96.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 22 11.3 6.9-18.0 160 88.7 82.0-93.1
$50,000+ 264 17 6.7 4.0-11.1 247 93.3 88.9-96.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 14 10.5 5.7-18.7 114 89.5 81.3-94.3

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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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