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 Land Line And Cell Phone Combined Sample, United States, 2012

State/Territory Current Former
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
California 361 47.7 4.1 (39.7 – 55.7) 123 22.1 4.5 (13.3 – 30.9)
Hawaii 224 44.0 5.9 (32.4 – 55.6) 118 27.7 6.4 (15.2 – 40.2)
Illinois 216 62.2 5.0 (52.4 – 72.0) 67 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Indiana 317 58.1 3.7 (50.8 – 65.4) 82 33.9 6.6 (21.0 – 46.8)
Iowa 221 60.1 4.8 (50.7 – 69.5) 75 22.9 5.5 (12.1 – 33.7)
Michigan 536 56.1 3.3 (49.6 – 62.6) 137 17.9 3.7 (10.6 – 25.2)
Mississippi 301 65.5 4.6 (56.5 – 74.5) 78 22.5 6.3 (10.2 – 34.8)
Missouri 263 68.7 4.6 (59.7 – 77.7) 78 28.3 7.8 (13.0 – 43.6)
Montana 283 61.1 4.7 (51.9 – 70.3) 82 20.7 5.7 (9.5 – 31.9)
Nebraska 616 58.1 3.0 (52.2 – 64.0) 219 24.6 4.1 (16.6 – 32.6)
Nevada 149 60.0 6.5 (47.3 – 72.7) 51 46.4 11.3 (24.3 – 68.5)
New Hampshire 287 53.3 5.0 (43.5 – 63.1) 50 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Mexico 359 59.0 3.7 (51.7 – 66.3) 79 14.1 4.1 (6.1 – 22.1)
New York 183 39.6 5.6 (28.6 – 50.6) 62 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 409 57.4 4.4 (48.8 – 66.0) 84 41.3 9.0 (23.7 – 58.9)
Oklahoma 249 60.2 4.8 (50.8 – 69.6) 63 40.0 9.6 (21.2 – 58.8)
Oregon 208 58.8 4.9 (49.2 – 68.4) 88 15.2 4.0 (7.4 – 23.0)
Pennsylvania 680 53.1 3.2 (46.8 – 59.4) 195 22.7 4.3 (14.3 – 31.1)
Texas 244 53.8 5.5 (43.0 – 64.6) 94 29.8 6.6 (16.9 – 42.7)
Vermont 255 53.8 4.7 (44.6 – 63.0) 29 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Washington 495 50.2 3.4 (43.5 – 56.9) 68 38.7 8.6 (21.8 – 55.6)
Wisconsin 216 60.6 5.5 (49.8 – 71.4) 47 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
22 state total 7,072 53.0 1.5 (50.1 – 55.9) 1,969 26.5 2.4 (21.8 – 31.2)
Median   58.1       24.6    
Range   39.6-68.7       14.1-46.4    

1 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”

2 “No” response to “Do you still have asthma?”

3 Aged ≥ 18 years

± Landline and cell phone combined 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