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, United States, 2007
State/Territory | Current | Former | ||||||
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Sample size± | % | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size | % | SE | 95% CI | |
Alaska | 92 | 61.5 | 7.9 | (46.0 - 77.0) | 49 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Arizona | 150 | 35.6 | 5.9 | (24.0 - 47.2) | 43 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
California | 194 | 41.5 | 4.7 | (32.3 - 50.7) | 87 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Colorado | 262 | 49.5 | 4.6 | (40.5 - 58.5) | 113 | 13.7 | 3.2 | (7.4 - 20.0) |
Connecticut | 248 | 44.2 | 5.5 | (33.4 - 55.0) | 107 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
District of Columbia | 108 | 37.2 | 5.8 | (25.8 - 48.6) | 65 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Florida | 520 | 54.2 | 5.7 | (43.0 - 65.4) | 272 | 25.1 | 5.8 | (13.7 - 36.5) |
Georgia | 255 | 48.9 | 4.3 | (40.5 - 57.3) | 97 | 22.1 | 6.1 | (10.1 - 34.1) |
Hawaii | 289 | 45.8 | 4.5 | (37.0 - 54.6) | 173 | 25.0 | 4.5 | (16.2 - 33.8) |
Illinois | 199 | 51.2 | 4.7 | (42.0 - 60.4) | 69 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Indiana | 286 | 52.5 | 4.3 | (44.1 - 60.9) | 70 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Iowa | 196 | 49.1 | 5.1 | (39.1 - 59.1) | 73 | 28.5 | 8.0 | (12.8 - 44.2) |
Kansas | 380 | 54.5 | 4.3 | (46.1 - 62.9) | 126 | 22.7 | 4.8 | (13.3 - 32.1) |
Maine | 351 | 43.2 | 4.0 | (35.4 - 51.0) | 92 | 19.2 | 4.5 | (10.4 - 28.0) |
Maryland | 279 | 40.6 | 4.0 | (32.8 - 48.4) | 131 | 26.0 | 5.4 | (15.4 - 36.6) |
Massachusetts | 168 | 35.3 | 6.7 | (22.2 - 48.4) | 55 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Michigan | 379 | 49.6 | 4.0 | (41.8 - 57.4) | 127 | 30.9 | 6.4 | (18.4 - 43.4) |
Missouri | 230 | 59.4 | 4.8 | (50.0 - 68.8) | 61 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Montana | 224 | 58.4 | 5.0 | (48.6 - 68.2) | 67 | 28.3 | 7.4 | (13.8 - 42.8) |
Nebraska | 388 | 52.5 | 5.8 | (41.1 - 63.9) | 131 | 21.1 | 5.5 | (10.3 - 31.9) |
Nevada | 195 | 50.3 | 5.6 | (39.3 - 61.3) | 93 | 25.3 | 6.6 | (12.4 - 38.2) |
New Hampshire | 219 | 44.6 | 4.6 | (35.6 - 53.6) | 85 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
New Mexico | 232 | 54.3 | 5.3 | (43.9 - 64.7) | 120 | 30.6 | 7.5 | (15.9 - 45.3) |
New York | 262 | 46.8 | 4.2 | (38.6 - 55.0) | 94 | 22.3 | 6.6 | (9.4 - 35.2) |
Ohio | 384 | 51.7 | 4.8 | (42.3 - 61.1) | 127 | 22.9 | 5.0 | (13.1 - 32.7) |
Oklahoma | 266 | 63.1 | 4.1 | (55.1 - 71.1) | 91 | 23.8 | 5.6 | (12.8 - 34.8) |
Oregon | 297 | 49.1 | 4.6 | (40.1 - 58.1) | 142 | 23.1 | 5.9 | (11.5 - 34.7) |
Pennsylvania | 202 | 43.0 | 5.4 | (32.4 - 53.6) | 81 | 20.3 | 5.5 | (9.5 - 31.1) |
Texas | 252 | 51.2 | 6.3 | (38.9 - 63.5) | 114 | 17.1 | 4.0 | (9.3 - 24.9) |
Utah | 204 | 45.2 | 4.6 | (36.2 - 54.2) | 104 | 26.8 | 6.2 | (14.6 - 39.0) |
Vermont | 360 | 45.2 | 3.6 | (38.1 - 52.3) | 121 | 20.3 | 5.0 | (10.5 - 30.1) |
Washington | 1,430 | 43.5 | 2.2 | (39.2 - 47.8) | 684 | 20.2 | 2.2 | (15.9 - 24.5) |
West Virginia | 241 | 45.1 | 4.4 | (36.5 - 53.7) | 66 | 20.9 | 5.6 | (9.9 - 31.9) |
Wisconsin | 223 | 46.3 | 4.6 | (37.3 - 55.3) | 78 | 23.1 | 6.7 | (10.0 - 36.2) |
34 areas total | 9,965 | 47.3 | 1.3 | (44.8 - 49.8) | 4,008 | 20.6 | 1.6 | (17.5 - 23.7) |
Median | 49.0 | 23.0 | ||||||
Range | 35.3-63.1 | 13.7-30.9 |
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
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