2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 444 56 11.1 8.3-14.7 388 88.9 85.3-91.7
GENDER
Male 199 20 9.0 5.3-14.9 179 91.0 85.1-94.7
Female 245 36 12.8 9.0-17.8 209 87.2 82.2-91.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 267 13 3.8 2.1- 6.9 254 96.2 93.1-97.9
Non-Hispanic Black 85 22 20.0 12.7-30.0 63 80.0 70.0-87.3
Other 86 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 153 26 14.9 10.0-21.7 127 85.1 78.3-90.0
45-64 144 20 11.6 6.8-19.1 124 88.4 80.9-93.2
65+ 142 *** *** *** 132 94.4 89.1-97.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 159 37 19.0 13.3-26.4 122 81.0 73.6-86.7
Some Post-H.S. 126 13 6.1 3.3-11.1 113 93.9 88.9-96.7
College Graduate 158 *** *** *** 152 95.0 88.5-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 140 38 27.5 19.8-36.8 102 72.5 63.2-80.2
$50,000+ 196 *** *** *** 192 98.1 94.4-99.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 108 14 8.5 4.7-14.9 94 91.5 85.1-95.3

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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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