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 4,211 297 7.6 6.6- 8.7 3,914 92.4 91.3-93.4
Medicaid Region 5 569 31 6.2 4.2- 9.1 538 93.8 90.9-95.8
GENDER
Male 265 16 7.1 4.1-12.0 249 92.9 88.0-95.9
Female 304 15 5.3 3.0- 9.3 289 94.7 90.7-97.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 359 16 4.7 2.7- 7.8 343 95.3 92.2-97.3
Non-Hispanic Black 99 *** *** *** 93 93.7 85.7-97.3
Other 103 *** *** *** 96 91.9 81.0-96.8
AGE
18-44 214 *** *** *** 204 95.4 91.3-97.6
45-64 181 *** *** *** 173 94.6 87.6-97.8
65+ 169 13 10.4 5.8-18.1 156 89.6 81.9-94.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 203 13 8.2 4.5-14.3 190 91.8 85.7-95.5
Some Post-H.S. 159 11 5.6 2.9-10.3 148 94.4 89.7-97.1
College Graduate 205 *** *** *** 198 96.0 90.9-98.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 177 17 12.7 7.5-20.6 160 87.3 79.4-92.5
$50,000+ 264 *** *** *** 258 97.8 94.6-99.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 *** *** *** 120 94.0 88.0-97.1

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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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