2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Derived Variables and Risk Factors

Excessive Drinking*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,014 560 14.3 13.1-15.7 3,454 85.7 84.3-86.9
Medicaid Region 6 450 60 15.5 11.7-20.2 390 84.5 79.8-88.3
GENDER
Male 201 36 19.5 13.8-26.8 165 80.5 73.2-86.2
Female 249 24 11.6 7.2-18.1 225 88.4 81.9-92.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 296 38 15.7 11.1-21.7 258 84.3 78.3-88.9
Non-Hispanic Black 95 11 13.2 7.1-23.5 84 86.8 76.5-92.9
Other 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 155 33 22.0 15.5-30.2 122 78.0 69.8-84.5
45-64 148 18 12.3 6.9-20.9 130 87.7 79.1-93.1
65+ 143 *** *** *** 134 91.7 82.6-96.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 151 20 15.4 9.6-23.9 131 84.6 76.1-90.4
Some Post-H.S. 130 16 15.7 9.4-25.0 114 84.3 75.0-90.6
College Graduate 166 23 15.1 9.7-22.9 143 84.9 77.1-90.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 143 21 18.9 12.0-28.6 122 81.1 71.4-88.0
$50,000+ 201 34 18.6 12.9-26.0 167 81.4 74.0-87.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 106 *** *** *** 101 94.6 84.3-98.3

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*Yes refers to respondents who said they had drank in the past 30 days and had at least one binge drinking episode (5 or more drinks on one occasion for men 4 or more drinks for women)
or were heavy drinkers (2 or more drinks per day for men, more than 1 drink per day for women).
No refers to respondents who said they did not drink in the past 30 days or who were not heavy drinkers and had no binge drinking episodes.

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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