TABLE 15. Estimated percent reporting their asthma was caused or made worse by any job for current1 and former2 asthma status among adults3 ever diagnosed with asthma by state/territory - BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey, United States, 2006
| State/Territory | Current | Former | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size± |
% | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size |
% | SE | 95% CI | |
| Alaska | 119 | 55.4 | 7.8 | (40.1 – 70.7) | 41 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Arizona | 145 | 44.0 | 8.3 | (27.7 – 60.3) | 71 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| California | 233 | 50.5 | 4.4 | (41.9 – 59.1) | 102 | 23.6 | 5.0 | (13.8 – 33.4) |
| Colorado | 254 | 42.1 | 4.0 | (34.3 – 49.9) | 64 | 26.1 | 5.8 | (14.7 – 37.5) |
| Connecticut | 303 | 35.7 | 3.9 | (28.1 – 43.3) | 104 | 20.4 | 5.8 | (9.0 – 31.8) |
| District of Columbia | 120 | 48.7 | 7.5 | (34.0 – 63.4) | 61 | 23.4 | 6.8 | (10.1 – 36.7) |
| Georgia | 232 | 54.8 | 5.5 | (44.0 – 65.6) | 104 | 13.0 | 3.7 | (5.7 – 20.3) |
| Hawaii | 217 | 40.0 | 4.4 | (31.4 – 48.6) | 159 | 18.2 | 4.2 | (10.0 – 26.4) |
| Indiana | 298 | 53.6 | 3.7 | (46.3 – 60.9) | 107 | 21.4 | 4.8 | (12.0 – 30.8) |
| Iowa | 173 | 49.4 | 4.3 | (41.0 – 57.8) | 85 | 23.5 | 6.0 | (11.7 – 35.3) |
| Kansas | 376 | 48.3 | 3.5 | (41.4 – 55.2) | 101 | 17.8 | 4.4 | (9.2 – 26.4) |
| Maine | 169 | 56.4 | 5.0 | (46.6 – 66.2) | 53 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Maryland | 276 | 39.5 | 4.4 | (30.9 – 48.1) | 117 | 11.0 | 3.3 | (4.5 – 17.5) |
| Massachusetts | 238 | 47.9 | 5.4 | (37.3 – 58.5) | 87 | 25.0 | 7.5 | (10.3 – 39.7) |
| Michigan | 308 | 52.6 | 3.6 | (45.5 – 59.7) | 78 | 30.9 | 6.6 | (18.0 – 43.8) |
| Missouri | 244 | 53.7 | 5.5 | (42.9 – 64.5) | 92 | 25.7 | 6.3 | (13.4 – 38.0) |
| Montana | 196 | 44.9 | 5.2 | (34.7 – 55.1) | 83 | 35.1 | 6.6 | (22.2 – 48.0) |
| Nebraska | 218 | 61.6 | 6.1 | (49.6 – 73.6) | 65 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| New Hampshire | 219 | 50.2 | 4.3 | (41.8 – 58.6) | 79 | 27.4 | 7.6 | (12.5 – 42.3) |
| New York | 256 | 47.4 | 4.4 | (38.8 – 56.0) | 77 | 20.7 | 5.5 | (9.9 – 31.5) |
| Oregon | 263 | 50.5 | 4.8 | (41.1 – 59.9) | 136 | 25.6 | 5.4 | (15.0 – 36.2) |
| Texas | 203 | 45.5 | 6.2 | (33.3 – 57.7) | 81 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Vermont | 382 | 40.6 | 3.2 | (34.3 – 46.9) | 138 | 19.9 | 4.0 | (12.1 – 27.7) |
| Washington | 1,362 | 49.4 | 2.2 | (45.1 – 53.7) | 622 | 21.2 | 2.3 | (16.7 – 25.7) |
| Wisconsin | 219 | 55.1 | 5.6 | (44.1 – 66.1) | 66 | 22.6 | 6.1 | (10.6 – 34.6) |
| 25 areas total | 7,023 | 49.0 | 1.5 | (46.1 – 51.9) | 2,773 | 21.3 | 2.2 | (17.0 – 25.6) |
| Median | 49.4 | 23.0 | ||||||
| Range | 35.7-61.6 | 11.0-35.1 | ||||||
1 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
2 “No” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
3 Aged ≥ 18 years
± Sample size excludes “DK/Refused”
§ Standard error
† Confidence interval
N/A: Estimate not available (N/A) if the unweighted sample size for the denominator was < 50 or if the relative standard error was > 0.30
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