2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 573 71 13.8 10.8-17.6 502 86.2 82.4-89.2
GENDER
Male 269 34 14.6 10.3-20.5 235 85.4 79.5-89.7
Female 304 37 13.1 9.2-18.4 267 86.9 81.6-90.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 362 43 13.8 10.1-18.7 319 86.2 81.3-89.9
Non-Hispanic Black 98 14 14.3 8.2-23.6 84 85.7 76.4-91.8
Other 104 13 13.4 6.8-24.5 91 86.6 75.5-93.2
AGE
18-44 218 35 17.2 12.2-23.8 183 82.8 76.2-87.8
45-64 182 27 14.7 9.7-21.6 155 85.3 78.4-90.3
65+ 168 *** *** *** 159 92.5 84.5-96.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 26 14.1 9.3-20.8 178 85.9 79.2-90.7
Some Post-H.S. 162 25 16.4 10.8-24.1 137 83.6 75.9-89.2
College Graduate 205 20 10.7 6.7-16.6 185 89.3 83.4-93.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 180 29 17.6 11.9-25.3 151 82.4 74.7-88.1
$50,000+ 265 33 14.5 10.0-20.4 232 85.5 79.6-90.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 128 *** *** *** 119 92.9 85.5-96.7

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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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