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/Territory | Current | Former | ||||||
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Sample size± | % | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size | % | SE | 95% CI | |
California | 361 | 47.7 | 4.1 | (39.7 - 55.7) | 123 | 22.1 | 4.5 | (13.3 - 30.9) |
Hawaii | 224 | 44.0 | 5.9 | (32.4 - 55.6) | 118 | 27.7 | 6.4 | (15.2 - 40.2) |
Illinois | 216 | 62.2 | 5.0 | (52.4 - 72.0) | 67 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Indiana | 317 | 58.1 | 3.7 | (50.8 - 65.4) | 82 | 33.9 | 6.6 | (21.0 - 46.8) |
Iowa | 221 | 60.1 | 4.8 | (50.7 - 69.5) | 75 | 22.9 | 5.5 | (12.1 - 33.7) |
Michigan | 536 | 56.1 | 3.3 | (49.6 - 62.6) | 137 | 17.9 | 3.7 | (10.6 - 25.2) |
Mississippi | 301 | 65.5 | 4.6 | (56.5 - 74.5) | 78 | 22.5 | 6.3 | (10.2 - 34.8) |
Missouri | 263 | 68.7 | 4.6 | (59.7 - 77.7) | 78 | 28.3 | 7.8 | (13.0 - 43.6) |
Montana | 283 | 61.1 | 4.7 | (51.9 - 70.3) | 82 | 20.7 | 5.7 | (9.5 - 31.9) |
Nebraska | 616 | 58.1 | 3.0 | (52.2 - 64.0) | 219 | 24.6 | 4.1 | (16.6 - 32.6) |
Nevada | 149 | 60.0 | 6.5 | (47.3 - 72.7) | 51 | 46.4 | 11.3 | (24.3 - 68.5) |
New Hampshire | 287 | 53.3 | 5.0 | (43.5 - 63.1) | 50 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
New Mexico | 359 | 59.0 | 3.7 | (51.7 - 66.3) | 79 | 14.1 | 4.1 | (6.1 - 22.1) |
New York | 183 | 39.6 | 5.6 | (28.6 - 50.6) | 62 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Ohio | 409 | 57.4 | 4.4 | (48.8 - 66.0) | 84 | 41.3 | 9.0 | (23.7 - 58.9) |
Oklahoma | 249 | 60.2 | 4.8 | (50.8 - 69.6) | 63 | 40.0 | 9.6 | (21.2 - 58.8) |
Oregon | 208 | 58.8 | 4.9 | (49.2 - 68.4) | 88 | 15.2 | 4.0 | (7.4 - 23.0) |
Pennsylvania | 680 | 53.1 | 3.2 | (46.8 - 59.4) | 195 | 22.7 | 4.3 | (14.3 - 31.1) |
Texas | 244 | 53.8 | 5.5 | (43.0 - 64.6) | 94 | 29.8 | 6.6 | (16.9 - 42.7) |
Vermont | 255 | 53.8 | 4.7 | (44.6 - 63.0) | 29 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
Washington | 495 | 50.2 | 3.4 | (43.5 - 56.9) | 68 | 38.7 | 8.6 | (21.8 - 55.6) |
Wisconsin | 216 | 60.6 | 5.5 | (49.8 - 71.4) | 47 | N/A | N/A | (N/A - N/A) |
22 state total | 7,072 | 53.0 | 1.5 | (50.1 - 55.9) | 1,969 | 26.5 | 2.4 | (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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