2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,211 297 7.6 6.6- 8.7 3,914 92.4 91.3-93.4
Medicaid Region 6 466 38 8.0 5.5-11.5 428 92.0 88.5-94.5
GENDER
Male 211 14 6.0 3.0-11.4 197 94.0 88.6-97.0
Female 255 24 10.1 6.4-15.4 231 89.9 84.6-93.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 309 27 8.1 5.2-12.5 282 91.9 87.5-94.8
Non-Hispanic Black 96 *** *** *** 88 90.7 80.8-95.8
Other 58 *** *** *** 55 94.8 84.3-98.4
AGE
18-44 162 11 7.1 3.8-12.8 151 92.9 87.2-96.2
45-64 153 11 9.2 4.4-18.1 142 90.8 81.9-95.6
65+ 146 16 8.7 4.8-15.2 130 91.3 84.8-95.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 158 14 8.8 4.8-15.7 144 91.2 84.3-95.2
Some Post-H.S. 132 12 8.4 4.4-15.2 120 91.6 84.8-95.6
College Graduate 173 11 4.8 2.5- 9.0 162 95.2 91.0-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 146 21 15.9 9.8-24.9 125 84.1 75.1-90.2
$50,000+ 206 *** *** *** 198 96.4 91.9-98.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 114 *** *** *** 105 93.8 87.2-97.1

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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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