2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the last 12 months was there a time when an electric, gas, oil, or water company threatened to shut off services?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,392 238 6.5 5.6- 7.6 3,154 93.5 92.4-94.4
Medicaid Region 5 441 39 8.8 6.1-12.4 402 91.2 87.6-93.9
GENDER
Male 198 14 5.4 3.0- 9.3 184 94.6 90.7-97.0
Female 243 25 11.6 7.4-17.7 218 88.4 82.3-92.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 265 18 6.6 3.9-10.9 247 93.4 89.1-96.1
Non-Hispanic Black 84 *** *** *** 74 88.4 78.9-93.9
Other 86 11 12.3 5.6-24.9 75 87.7 75.1-94.4
AGE
18-44 152 17 10.8 6.4-17.5 135 89.2 82.5-93.6
45-64 143 18 12.8 7.4-21.3 125 87.2 78.7-92.6
65+ 141 *** *** *** 137 98.4 95.6-99.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 156 16 9.0 5.3-15.1 140 91.0 84.9-94.7
Some Post-H.S. 126 12 9.3 4.7-17.7 114 90.7 82.3-95.3
College Graduate 158 11 7.8 4.0-14.8 147 92.2 85.2-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 139 19 12.5 7.7-19.7 120 87.5 80.3-92.3
$50,000+ 194 12 6.8 3.7-12.2 182 93.2 87.8-96.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 108 *** *** *** 100 92.0 80.7-97.0

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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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