2014 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, 2014
| State/Territory | Current | Former | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size± |
% | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size |
% | SE | 95% CI | |
| Connecticut | 201 | 45.0 | 5.9 | (33.4 – 56.6) | 72 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| District of Columbia | 105 | 35.5 | 8.5 | (18.8 – 52.2) | 41 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Georgia | 123 | 45.3 | 7.8 | (30.0 – 60.6) | 49 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Hawaii | 172 | 41.2 | 6.0 | (29.4 – 53.0) | 99 | 23.1 | 6.2 | (10.9 – 35.3) |
| Illinois | 184 | 43.8 | 5.4 | (33.2 – 54.4) | 95 | 28.6 | 7.1 | (14.7 – 42.5) |
| Indiana | 473 | 56.8 | 3.5 | (49.9 – 63.7) | 116 | 25.2 | 6.0 | (13.4 – 37.0) |
| Iowa | 216 | 50.5 | 5.1 | (40.5 – 60.5) | 113 | 20.6 | 4.5 | (11.8 – 29.4) |
| Maine | 276 | 61.2 | 4.4 | (52.6 – 69.8) | 73 | 25.6 | 7.6 | (10.7 – 40.5) |
| Maryland | 203 | 56.4 | 6.2 | (44.2 – 68.6) | 83 | 24.5 | 7.0 | (10.8 – 38.2) |
| Michigan | 401 | 53.3 | 3.5 | (46.4 – 60.2) | 108 | 25.6 | 5.0 | (15.8 – 35.4) |
| Mississippi | 117 | 68.9 | 6.6 | (56.0 – 81.8) | 45 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Missouri | 242 | 52.4 | 5.2 | (42.2 – 62.6) | 54 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Montana | 243 | 56.0 | 5.3 | (45.6 – 66.4) | 78 | 24.8 | 6.6 | (11.9 – 37.7) |
| Nebraska | 649 | 55.6 | 3.4 | (48.9 – 62.3) | 240 | 24.8 | 4.7 | (15.6 – 34.0) |
| Nevada | 123 | 53.3 | 6.9 | (39.8 – 66.8) | 49 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| New Hampshire | 201 | 54.3 | 5.0 | (44.5 – 64.1) | 54 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| New Jersey | 406 | 47.2 | 4.0 | (39.4 – 55.0) | 138 | 23.7 | 5.4 | (13.1 – 34.3) |
| New Mexico | 222 | 45.1 | 5.3 | (34.7 – 55.5) | 99 | 34.1 | 7.9 | (18.6 – 49.6) |
| New York | 114 | 45.3 | 7.3 | (31.0 – 59.6) | 33 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| North Carolina | 121 | 42.6 | 8.0 | (26.9 – 58.3) | 19 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Ohio | 320 | 59.4 | 4.2 | (51.2 – 67.6) | 106 | 30.3 | 7.0 | (16.6 – 44.0) |
| Oklahoma | 221 | 38.1 | 4.2 | (29.9 – 46.3) | 79 | 15.4 | 4.1 | (7.4 – 23.4) |
| Oregon | 157 | 59.3 | 7.4 | (44.8 – 73.8) | 104 | 17.5 | 4.7 | (8.3 – 26.7) |
| Pennsylvania | 400 | 51.3 | 4.1 | (43.3 – 59.3) | 106 | 21.8 | 5.0 | (12.0 – 31.6) |
| Rhode Island | 185 | 53.9 | 6.3 | (41.6 – 66.2) | 44 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Texas | 449 | 46.0 | 4.3 | (37.6 – 54.4) | 215 | 32.5 | 6.2 | (20.3 – 44.7) |
| Utah | 488 | 41.2 | 2.9 | (35.5 – 46.9) | 224 | 21.6 | 3.4 | (14.9 – 28.3) |
| Vermont | 229 | 52.6 | 4.2 | (44.4 – 60.8) | 68 | 18.1 | 5.1 | (8.1 – 28.1) |
| Washington | 354 | 47.2 | 4.6 | (38.2 – 56.2) | 117 | 24.1 | 6.5 | (11.4 – 36.8) |
| West Virginia | 232 | 52.6 | 4.3 | (44.2 – 61.0) | 39 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Wisconsin | 237 | 51.2 | 5.1 | (41.2 – 61.2) | 52 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Puerto Rico | 352 | 49.8 | 3.7 | (42.5 – 57.1) | 197 | 18.7 | 3.6 | (11.6 – 25.8) |
| 32 state total | 8,416 | 49.5 | 1.4 | (46.8 – 52.2) | 3,009 | 25.2 | 1.9 | (21.5 – 28.9) |
| Median | 51.3 | 24.3 | ||||||
| Range | 35.5-68.9 | 15.4-34.1 | ||||||
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
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