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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 Sample, United States, 2011

State/TerritoryCurrentFormer
Sample
size±
%SE§95% CISample
size
%SE95% CI
Alabama17764.87.1(50.9 - 78.7)44N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Arizona21441.77.6(26.8 - 56.6)85N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
California49739.73.5(32.8 - 46.6)20119.13.7(11.8 - 26.4)
Connecticut23452.06.1(40.0 - 64.0)82N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
District of Columbia14441.07.6(26.1 - 55.9)60N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Florida33856.76.3(44.4 - 69.0)14124.36.7(11.2 - 37.4)
Georgia25847.66.5(34.9 - 60.3)81N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Hawaii24246.16.2(33.9 - 58.3)12415.04.5(6.2 - 23.8)
Illinois17450.87.2(36.7 - 64.9)66N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Indiana31048.24.6(39.2 - 57.2)7819.05.4(8.4 - 29.6)
Iowa18555.46.7(42.3 - 68.5)6033.49.6(14.6 - 52.2)
Kansas67947.33.7(40.0 - 54.6)21622.93.9(15.3 - 30.5)
Louisiana25137.46.5(24.7 - 50.1)105N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Maine25149.15.3(38.7 - 59.5)73N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Maryland20347.35.7(36.1 - 58.5)76N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Massachusetts23240.86.2(28.6 - 53.0)69N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Michigan47252.64.5(43.8 - 61.4)12713.23.9(5.6 - 20.8)
Mississippi24757.06.3(44.7 - 69.3)75N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Missouri20458.05.8(46.6 - 69.4)53N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Montana32360.04.5(51.2 - 68.8)9644.88.8(27.6 - 62.0)
Nebraska64652.04.2(43.8 - 60.2)22817.03.8(9.6 - 24.4)
Nevada13264.88.0(49.1 - 80.5)31N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
New Hampshire20742.86.7(29.7 - 55.9)59N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
New Jersey31850.45.4(39.8 - 61.0)10710.83.2(4.5 - 17.1)
New Mexico30745.45.5(34.6 - 56.2)8926.55.9(14.9 - 38.1)
New York12345.36.8(32.0 - 58.6)44N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
North Carolina20749.16.6(36.2 - 62.0)64N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
North Dakota15935.96.3(23.6 - 48.2)50N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Ohio29753.26.3(40.9 - 65.5)7435.09.3(16.8 - 53.2)
Oklahoma27849.85.1(39.8 - 59.8)8927.06.3(14.7 - 39.3)
Oregon17037.87.1(23.9 - 51.7)62N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Pennsylvania34848.64.8(39.2 - 58.0)11219.55.5(8.7 - 30.3)
Rhode Island23151.65.6(40.6 - 62.6)77N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Texas49744.94.8(35.5 - 54.3)20613.44.0(5.6 - 21.2)
Utah39642.94.7(33.7 - 52.1)15931.18.0(15.4 - 46.8)
Vermont29140.14.4(31.5 - 48.7)10011.73.4(5.0 - 18.4)
Washington61949.53.5(42.6 - 56.4)22429.75.2(19.5 - 39.9)
West Virginia18250.25.9(38.6 - 61.8)3931.58.9(14.1 - 48.9)
Wisconsin22552.46.3(40.1 - 64.7)35N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Puerto Rico28048.54.9(38.9 - 58.1)63N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
40 state total11,54848.01.2(45.6 - 50.4)3,82418.71.3(16.2 - 21.2)
Median 48.9   22.9  
Range 35.9-64.8   10.8-44.8  

1"Yes" response to "Do you still have asthma?"
2 "Yes" response to "Do you still have asthma?"
3Aged ≥ 18 years
±Landline 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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