2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,205 529 12.8 11.6-14.1 3,676 87.2 85.9-88.4
Medicaid Region 3 862 97 11.5 9.1-14.3 765 88.5 85.7-90.9
GENDER
Male 403 36 10.2 7.0-14.4 367 89.8 85.6-93.0
Female 459 61 12.7 9.4-16.9 398 87.3 83.1-90.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 490 53 12.0 8.8-16.1 437 88.0 83.9-91.2
Non-Hispanic Black 175 13 5.8 3.0-11.0 162 94.2 89.0-97.0
Other 191 30 16.3 10.8-23.9 161 83.7 76.1-89.2
AGE
18-44 354 47 13.8 10.1-18.7 307 86.2 81.3-89.9
45-64 280 29 9.7 6.2-14.9 251 90.3 85.1-93.8
65+ 208 21 9.9 5.9-16.2 187 90.1 83.8-94.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 251 40 16.2 11.4-22.5 211 83.8 77.5-88.6
Some Post-H.S. 217 28 13.5 9.1-19.6 189 86.5 80.4-90.9
College Graduate 390 29 5.2 3.4- 7.8 361 94.8 92.2-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 245 43 18.1 12.7-25.1 202 81.9 74.9-87.3
$50,000+ 421 32 8.3 5.5-12.2 389 91.7 87.8-94.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 196 22 10.5 6.6-16.2 174 89.5 83.8-93.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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