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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 And Cell Phone Combined Sample, United States, 2012

State/TerritoryCurrentFormer
Sample
size±
%SE§95% CISample
size
%SE95% CI
California36147.74.1(39.7 - 55.7)12322.14.5(13.3 - 30.9)
Hawaii22444.05.9(32.4 - 55.6)11827.76.4(15.2 - 40.2)
Illinois21662.25.0(52.4 - 72.0)67N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Indiana31758.13.7(50.8 - 65.4)8233.96.6(21.0 - 46.8)
Iowa22160.14.8(50.7 - 69.5)7522.95.5(12.1 - 33.7)
Michigan53656.13.3(49.6 - 62.6)13717.93.7(10.6 - 25.2)
Mississippi30165.54.6(56.5 - 74.5)7822.56.3(10.2 - 34.8)
Missouri26368.74.6(59.7 - 77.7)7828.37.8(13.0 - 43.6)
Montana28361.14.7(51.9 - 70.3)8220.75.7(9.5 - 31.9)
Nebraska61658.13.0(52.2 - 64.0)21924.64.1(16.6 - 32.6)
Nevada14960.06.5(47.3 - 72.7)5146.411.3(24.3 - 68.5)
New Hampshire28753.35.0(43.5 - 63.1)50N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
New Mexico35959.03.7(51.7 - 66.3)7914.14.1(6.1 - 22.1)
New York18339.65.6(28.6 - 50.6)62N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Ohio40957.44.4(48.8 - 66.0)8441.39.0(23.7 - 58.9)
Oklahoma24960.24.8(50.8 - 69.6)6340.09.6(21.2 - 58.8)
Oregon20858.84.9(49.2 - 68.4)8815.24.0(7.4 - 23.0)
Pennsylvania68053.13.2(46.8 - 59.4)19522.74.3(14.3 - 31.1)
Texas24453.85.5(43.0 - 64.6)9429.86.6(16.9 - 42.7)
Vermont25553.84.7(44.6 - 63.0)29N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Washington49550.23.4(43.5 - 56.9)6838.78.6(21.8 - 55.6)
Wisconsin21660.65.5(49.8 - 71.4)47N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
22 state total7,07253.01.5(50.1 - 55.9)1,96926.52.4(21.8 - 31.2)
Median 58.1   24.6  
Range 39.6-68.7   14.1-46.4  

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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