2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months, have you received food stamps, also called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on an EBT card?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,400 388 10.7 9.6-12.0 3,012 89.3 88.0-90.4
Medicaid Region 3 667 59 7.3 5.5- 9.7 608 92.7 90.3-94.5
GENDER
Male 300 11 3.1 1.6- 6.1 289 96.9 93.9-98.4
Female 367 48 11.1 8.0-15.1 319 88.9 84.9-92.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 385 22 5.0 3.1- 8.0 363 95.0 92.0-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 137 20 10.9 6.8-17.2 117 89.1 82.8-93.2
Other 142 17 11.0 6.0-19.3 125 89.0 80.7-94.0
AGE
18-44 244 25 8.9 5.6-13.7 219 91.1 86.3-94.4
45-64 230 22 7.9 5.0-12.2 208 92.1 87.8-95.0
65+ 177 11 4.1 2.1- 7.6 166 95.9 92.4-97.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 201 32 13.3 9.0-19.1 169 86.7 80.9-91.0
Some Post-H.S. 177 13 4.1 2.2- 7.6 164 95.9 92.4-97.8
College Graduate 287 14 3.9 2.1- 7.0 273 96.1 93.0-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 189 36 14.2 9.7-20.4 153 85.8 79.6-90.3
$50,000+ 313 *** *** *** 307 98.2 95.6-99.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 165 17 9.8 5.8-16.2 148 90.2 83.8-94.2

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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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