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 4,224 642 13.9 12.7-15.2 3,582 86.1 84.8-87.3
Medicaid Region 5 575 95 15.6 12.5-19.3 480 84.4 80.7-87.5
GENDER
Male 269 41 15.3 10.9-20.9 228 84.7 79.1-89.1
Female 306 54 15.9 11.8-21.0 252 84.1 79.0-88.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 363 61 15.7 12.0-20.2 302 84.3 79.8-88.0
Non-Hispanic Black 99 17 13.6 8.1-22.0 82 86.4 78.0-91.9
Other 104 13 15.4 8.1-27.2 91 84.6 72.8-91.9
AGE
18-44 218 12 5.1 2.8- 8.9 206 94.9 91.1-97.2
45-64 183 43 24.0 17.5-31.9 140 76.0 68.1-82.5
65+ 169 40 26.0 18.7-35.0 129 74.0 65.0-81.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 205 31 14.0 9.5-20.1 174 86.0 79.9-90.5
Some Post-H.S. 162 34 19.2 13.4-26.7 128 80.8 73.3-86.6
College Graduate 206 30 14.3 9.7-20.5 176 85.7 79.5-90.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 41 22.3 15.9-30.3 141 77.7 69.7-84.1
$50,000+ 265 30 11.2 7.6-16.2 235 88.8 83.8-92.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 24 15.8 10.2-23.7 104 84.2 76.3-89.8

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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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