2017 Adult Prevalence Tables
Table 13: Estimated percent reporting their asthma was caused or made worse by any job among adults 1 with current 2 asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey, United States, 2017.
| State/Territory | Any Job | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size± |
% | SE§ | 95% CI† | |
| Arizona | 484 | 58.0 | 3.6 | (50.9 – 65.1) |
| California | 157 | 49.5 | 5.8 | (38.1 – 60.9) |
| Connecticut | 329 | 42.2 | 4.2 | (34.0 – 50.4) |
| Florida | 572 | 56.5 | 4.6 | (47.5 – 65.5) |
| Georgia | 155 | 58.5 | 5.2 | (48.3 – 68.7) |
| Hawaii | 237 | 43.6 | 4.9 | (34.0 – 53.2) |
| Illinois | 161 | 49.2 | 5.3 | (38.8 – 59.6) |
| Indiana | 538 | 53.1 | 3.5 | (46.2 – 60.0) |
| Iowa | 218 | 52.9 | 4.7 | (43.7 – 62.1) |
| Kansas | 484 | 50.3 | 3.2 | (44.0 – 56.6) |
| Kentucky | 324 | 65.1 | 4.6 | (56.1 – 74.1) |
| Maine | 509 | 50.7 | 3.7 | (43.4 – 58.0) |
| Massachusetts | 191 | 38.7 | 5.8 | (27.3 – 50.1) |
| Michigan | 465 | 54.4 | 3.3 | (47.9 – 60.9) |
| Minnesota | 454 | 53.1 | 3.4 | (46.4 – 59.8) |
| Missouri | 209 | 46.0 | 5.4 | (35.4 – 56.6) |
| Montana | 197 | 51.3 | 6.4 | (38.8 – 63.8) |
| Nebraska | 433 | 54.7 | 4.0 | (46.9 – 62.5) |
| Nevada | 123 | 65.2 | 6.6 | (52.3 – 78.1) |
| New Hampshire | 185 | 44.1 | 5.7 | (32.9 – 55.3) |
| New Jersey | 391 | 51.1 | 5.2 | (40.9 – 61.3) |
| New Mexico | 218 | 50.5 | 5.8 | (39.1 – 61.9) |
| New York | 166 | 51.0 | 5.3 | (40.6 – 61.4) |
| Ohio | 343 | 53.0 | 4.5 | (44.2 – 61.8) |
| Oregon | 134 | 56.5 | 5.5 | (45.7 – 67.3) |
| Pennsylvania | 182 | 51.2 | 5.6 | (40.2 – 62.2) |
| Rhode Island | 204 | 51.1 | 5.0 | (41.3 – 60.9) |
| Texas | 330 | 62.1 | 6.7 | (49.0 – 75.2) |
| Utah | 293 | 45.4 | 4.0 | (37.6 – 53.2) |
| Vermont | 237 | 53.8 | 5.3 | (43.4 – 64.2) |
| Wisconsin | 236 | 54.5 | 4.9 | (44.9 – 64.1) |
| Puerto Rico | 144 | 37.3 | 6.1 | (25.3 – 49.3) |
| 32 States / Area | 9,303 | 52.5 | 1.3 | (50.0 – 55.0) |
| Median | 51.3 | |||
| Range | 37.3-65.2 | |||
1 Aged ≥ 18 years
2 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
± Sample size for adults with current asthma, excludes “DK/Refused”
§ Standard error
† Confidence interval
Link for Summary Data Quality Report: https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/acbs/2017/pdf/sdq_report_acbs_17-508.pdf
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