2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 603 82 12.1 9.3-15.5 521 87.9 84.5-90.7
GENDER
Male 274 48 15.7 11.3-21.4 226 84.3 78.6-88.7
Female 329 34 8.7 5.7-13.0 295 91.3 87.0-94.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 495 70 11.6 8.7-15.2 425 88.4 84.8-91.3
Non-Hispanic Black 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 67 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 155 *** *** *** 146 94.5 89.1-97.3
45-64 188 14 9.3 5.3-15.9 174 90.7 84.1-94.7
65+ 253 59 23.6 17.4-31.1 194 76.4 68.9-82.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 184 33 18.0 12.4-25.4 151 82.0 74.6-87.6
Some Post-H.S. 173 22 9.7 5.9-15.6 151 90.3 84.4-94.1
College Graduate 244 26 7.1 4.5-11.1 218 92.9 88.9-95.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 212 35 15.8 10.7-22.5 177 84.2 77.5-89.3
$50,000+ 242 25 8.6 5.5-13.3 217 91.4 86.7-94.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 149 22 13.1 7.4-22.1 127 86.9 77.9-92.6

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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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