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2014 BRFSS Asthma Call-Back Survey Prevalence Tables


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, 2014

State/Territory Current Former
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
Connecticut 201 45.0 5.9 (33.4 – 56.6) 72 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
District of Columbia 105 35.5 8.5 (18.8 – 52.2) 41 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Georgia 123 45.3 7.8 (30.0 – 60.6) 49 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Hawaii 172 41.2 6.0 (29.4 – 53.0) 99 23.1 6.2 (10.9 – 35.3)
Illinois 184 43.8 5.4 (33.2 – 54.4) 95 28.6 7.1 (14.7 – 42.5)
Indiana 473 56.8 3.5 (49.9 – 63.7) 116 25.2 6.0 (13.4 – 37.0)
Iowa 216 50.5 5.1 (40.5 – 60.5) 113 20.6 4.5 (11.8 – 29.4)
Maine 276 61.2 4.4 (52.6 – 69.8) 73 25.6 7.6 (10.7 – 40.5)
Maryland 203 56.4 6.2 (44.2 – 68.6) 83 24.5 7.0 (10.8 – 38.2)
Michigan 401 53.3 3.5 (46.4 – 60.2) 108 25.6 5.0 (15.8 – 35.4)
Mississippi 117 68.9 6.6 (56.0 – 81.8) 45 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Missouri 242 52.4 5.2 (42.2 – 62.6) 54 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 243 56.0 5.3 (45.6 – 66.4) 78 24.8 6.6 (11.9 – 37.7)
Nebraska 649 55.6 3.4 (48.9 – 62.3) 240 24.8 4.7 (15.6 – 34.0)
Nevada 123 53.3 6.9 (39.8 – 66.8) 49 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 201 54.3 5.0 (44.5 – 64.1) 54 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Jersey 406 47.2 4.0 (39.4 – 55.0) 138 23.7 5.4 (13.1 – 34.3)
New Mexico 222 45.1 5.3 (34.7 – 55.5) 99 34.1 7.9 (18.6 – 49.6)
New York 114 45.3 7.3 (31.0 – 59.6) 33 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 121 42.6 8.0 (26.9 – 58.3) 19 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 320 59.4 4.2 (51.2 – 67.6) 106 30.3 7.0 (16.6 – 44.0)
Oklahoma 221 38.1 4.2 (29.9 – 46.3) 79 15.4 4.1 (7.4 – 23.4)
Oregon 157 59.3 7.4 (44.8 – 73.8) 104 17.5 4.7 (8.3 – 26.7)
Pennsylvania 400 51.3 4.1 (43.3 – 59.3) 106 21.8 5.0 (12.0 – 31.6)
Rhode Island 185 53.9 6.3 (41.6 – 66.2) 44 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Texas 449 46.0 4.3 (37.6 – 54.4) 215 32.5 6.2 (20.3 – 44.7)
Utah 488 41.2 2.9 (35.5 – 46.9) 224 21.6 3.4 (14.9 – 28.3)
Vermont 229 52.6 4.2 (44.4 – 60.8) 68 18.1 5.1 (8.1 – 28.1)
Washington 354 47.2 4.6 (38.2 – 56.2) 117 24.1 6.5 (11.4 – 36.8)
West Virginia 232 52.6 4.3 (44.2 – 61.0) 39 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 237 51.2 5.1 (41.2 – 61.2) 52 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Puerto Rico 352 49.8 3.7 (42.5 – 57.1) 197 18.7 3.6 (11.6 – 25.8)
32 state total 8,416 49.5 1.4 (46.8 – 52.2) 3,009 25.2 1.9 (21.5 – 28.9)
Median   51.3       24.3    
Range   35.5-68.9       15.4-34.1    

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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