2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Reactions to Race

How often do you think about your race? Would you say never, once a year, once a month, once a week, once a day, once an hour, or constantly?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Never Once a year Once a month Once a week Once a day/once an hour/constantly
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,066 1,799 57.8 55.7-59.9 240 7.9 6.8- 9.1 308 10.2 9.0-11.5 257 8.2 7.1- 9.4 462 16.0 14.4-17.6
Medicaid Region 3 595 329 55.5 50.7-60.1 41 6.5 4.7- 9.1 75 11.6 9.0-14.7 55 9.8 7.1-13.2 95 16.7 13.4-20.6
GENDER
Male 264 152 58.0 51.1-64.7 18 6.5 3.9-10.7 28 10.1 6.7-14.8 27 9.6 6.3-14.3 39 15.8 11.2-21.7
Female 331 177 53.2 46.7-59.6 23 6.5 4.2-10.1 47 12.9 9.3-17.5 28 9.9 6.2-15.4 56 17.5 13.1-23.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 245 68.6 63.0-73.7 29 7.8 5.3-11.4 43 10.6 7.7-14.5 27 7.7 5.1-11.4 20 5.3 3.3- 8.4
Non-Hispanic Black 131 49 33.4 24.9-43.1 *** *** *** 11 8.6 4.3-16.5 *** *** *** 60 46.4 36.4-56.6
Other 98 *** *** *** *** *** *** 21 21.4 13.2-32.9 20 21.5 13.3-32.8 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 209 92 47.5 39.8-55.3 14 6.1 3.5-10.4 31 13.9 9.5-20.1 32 15.2 10.0-22.4 40 17.2 12.3-23.6
45-64 206 104 51.3 43.4-59.1 19 9.2 5.6-14.8 30 12.8 8.6-18.6 21 9.7 6.0-15.3 32 17.0 11.4-24.6
65+ 167 127 77.0 68.9-83.6 *** *** *** 13 6.2 3.4-11.1 *** *** *** 18 12.2 7.4-19.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 163 98 63.1 53.9-71.4 *** *** *** 20 10.4 6.3-16.7 15 9.7 4.9-18.3 23 13.5 8.6-20.5
Some Post-H.S. 162 97 56.8 47.9-65.2 12 8.0 4.4-14.1 17 9.7 5.5-16.4 *** *** *** 26 19.2 12.8-27.7
College Graduate 268 132 46.3 39.7-53.0 22 8.5 5.4-13.2 38 14.5 10.5-19.7 30 12.9 8.9-18.3 46 17.8 13.1-23.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 154 94 60.7 50.8-69.9 11 6.2 3.2-11.6 15 7.1 3.9-12.6 13 9.6 4.3-20.0 21 16.4 10.3-25.2
$50,000+ 296 148 49.8 43.3-56.2 22 7.2 4.5-11.2 47 15.5 11.4-20.7 33 12.3 8.5-17.3 46 15.3 11.3-20.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 145 87 60.9 51.0-70.0 *** *** *** 13 8.7 4.7-15.7 *** *** *** 28 19.5 12.6-28.8

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*Other includes Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, mixed race, or some other group

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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