2013 BRFSS Asthma Call-Back Survey Prevalence Tables

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, 2013

State/Territory Current Former
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
California 235 36.3 4.5 (27.5 – 45.1) 138 23.6 4.6 (14.6 – 32.6)
Connecticut 239 43.5 5.1 (33.5 – 53.5) 105 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Georgia 141 63.7 6.2 (51.5 – 75.9) 90 22.1 5.5 (11.3 – 32.9)
Hawaii 182 50.6 6.0 (38.8 – 62.4) 101 21.3 6.3 (9.0 – 33.6)
Indiana 393 52.3 3.7 (45.0 – 59.6) 129 34.8 5.8 (23.4 – 46.2)
Iowa 254 53.6 5.4 (43.0 – 64.2) 100 18.2 4.9 (8.6 – 27.8)
Maryland 255 54.5 5.3 (44.1 – 64.9) 87 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Michigan 633 60.6 2.9 (54.9 – 66.3) 154 27.6 4.5 (18.8 – 36.4)
Mississippi 247 58.8 6.1 (46.8 – 70.8) 77 30.0 8.5 (13.3 – 46.7)
Missouri 263 61.3 5.2 (51.1 – 71.5) 69 16.1 4.6 (7.1 – 25.1)
Montana 308 55.5 4.4 (46.9 – 64.1) 125 27.1 5.2 (16.9 – 37.3)
Nebraska 314 45.1 6.2 (32.9 – 57.3) 117 25.7 6.5 (13.0 – 38.4)
Nevada 130 70.4 6.0 (58.6 – 82.2) 62 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 249 50.5 5.4 (39.9 – 61.1) 92 19.9 5.7 (8.7 – 31.1)
New Jersey 304 49.3 4.5 (40.5 – 58.1) 118 24.3 5.5 (13.5 – 35.1)
New Mexico 314 51.6 4.3 (43.2 – 60.0) 107 11.4 3.3 (4.9 – 17.9)
New York 128 62.4 6.1 (50.4 – 74.4) 41 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 122 62.6 6.6 (49.7 – 75.5) 44 49.9 11.8 (26.8 – 73.0)
Ohio 307 63.7 4.8 (54.3 – 73.1) 91 19.6 5.0 (9.8 – 29.4)
Oklahoma 245 56.9 5.1 (46.9 – 66.9) 82 24.9 7.3 (10.6 – 39.2)
Oregon 192 54.9 5.7 (43.7 – 66.1) 84 31.7 7.6 (16.8 – 46.6)
Pennsylvania 300 54.5 4.1 (46.5 – 62.5) 116 25.0 4.8 (15.6 – 34.4)
Texas 249 43.5 5.5 (32.7 – 54.3) 114 29.6 7.1 (15.7 – 43.5)
Utah 434 54.6 3.5 (47.7 – 61.5) 189 16.1 3.1 (10.0 – 22.2)
Vermont 225 42.4 5.8 (31.0 – 53.8) 80 9.4 2.8 (3.9 – 14.9)
Washington 356 52.0 4.0 (44.2 – 59.8) 126 21.0 4.3 (12.6 – 29.4)
West Virginia 178 57.1 4.8 (47.7 – 66.5) 33 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 260 57.3 5.1 (47.3 – 67.3) 67 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Puerto Rico 332 46.5 4.2 (38.3 – 54.7) 192 25.1 4.5 (16.3 – 33.9)
28 state total 7,789 52.5 1.5 (49.6 – 55.4) 2,930 24.7 1.7 (21.4 – 28.0)
Median   54.5       24.3    
Range   36.3-70.4       9.4-49.9    

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