TABLE 8a. Estimated percent advised to make environmental changes 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 129 45.8 7.4 (31.3 – 60.3) 43 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 153 43.5 8.2 (27.4 – 59.6) 72 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 245 46.9 4.3 (38.5 – 55.3) 106 22.8 4.9 (13.2 – 32.4)
Colorado 274 38.4 3.8 (31.0 – 45.8) 99 27.9 5.3 (17.5 – 38.3)
Connecticut 322 45.9 4.2 (37.7 – 54.1) 104 33.0 7.0 (19.3 – 46.7)
District of Columbia 125 48.5 7.4 (34.0 – 63.0) 61 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Georgia 245 47.8 5.0 (38.0 – 57.6) 108 27.7 6.4 (15.2 – 40.2)
Hawaii 223 35.4 4.5 (26.6 – 44.2) 169 21.4 4.8 (12.0 – 30.8)
Indiana 318 45.7 3.5 (38.8 – 52.6) 113 43.6 6.9 (30.1 – 57.1)
Iowa 180 33.2 4.0 (25.4 – 41.0) 88 18.0 4.4 (9.4 – 26.6)
Kansas 395 42.4 3.4 (35.7 – 49.1) 102 25.7 5.5 (14.9 – 36.5)
Maine 180 46.5 4.9 (36.9 – 56.1) 54 31.1 7.4 (16.6 – 45.6)
Maryland 287 41.6 4.3 (33.2 – 50.0) 120 27.6 6.6 (14.7 – 40.5)
Massachusetts 261 44.2 5.2 (34.0 – 54.4) 92 23.0 5.8 (11.6 – 34.4)
Michigan 320 47.9 3.6 (40.8 – 55.0) 84 30.6 6.1 (18.6 – 42.6)
Missouri 257 40.1 5.9 (28.5 – 51.7) 93 37.5 10.0 (17.9 – 57.1)
Montana 205 41.3 5.1 (31.3 – 51.3) 83 33.5 6.6 (20.6 – 46.4)
Nebraska 229 38.6 6.5 (25.9 – 51.3) 66 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 237 49.3 4.3 (40.9 – 57.7) 82 38.4 8.0 (22.7 – 54.1)
New York 273 44.8 4.2 (36.6 – 53.0) 83 43.4 7.6 (28.5 – 58.3)
Oregon 290 39.0 4.7 (29.8 – 48.2) 143 22.5 5.3 (12.1 – 32.9)
Texas 214 46.0 6.5 (33.3 – 58.7) 85 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Vermont 417 41.8 3.1 (35.7 – 47.9) 144 30.3 4.8 (20.9 – 39.7)
Washington 1,471 44.2 2.2 (39.9 – 48.5) 661 25.5 2.6 (20.4 – 30.6)
Wisconsin 223 50.2 5.7 (39.0 – 61.4) 68 38.2 8.2 (22.1 – 54.3)
25 areas total 7,473 45.1 1.5 (42.2 – 48.0) 2,923 27.1 2.1 (23.0 – 31.2)
Median   44.2       29.1    
Range   33.2-50.2       18.0-43.6    

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