BRFSS Prevalence & Trends Data Help

Viewing BRFSS Data by Topic

The Explore by Topic page allows you to view one topic across all available locations. Whenever available, you can use View By field to further stratify data. To begin, select a Class, Topic, and Year from the respective drop down lists and click GO. By default, the system displays the data in map format. You can then choose to view the data in chart or table format.

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Viewing a map

After selecting a year, a color-coded map displays the data for the measure. A legend explaining the colors is displayed to the right of the map.

Viewing a chart

You can view data in a bar chart format by clicking the Chart icon next to the Map icon.

Screenshot of the BRFSS Prevalence and Trends Data Explore by Topic chart view. Instructions are included for each section of the page. The line to the right of the bars in the chart indicate the confidence interval (CI). Hover the mouse or CI line to view data for the location.

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Viewing data in table format

You can view data in table format by clicking the Table icon next to the Chart icon.

Screenshot of the BRFSS Prevalence and Trends Data Explore by Topic table view

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Footnotes/Notes/Data Source

The Footnotes, Notes, and Data Source section at the bottom of a panel provides more information for the content displayed in the panel. This section explains the symbols displayed in a panel, displays important notes about the data, and also lists the data source. To hide this section, click the Hide Footnotes link, to display it again, click the Show Footnotes link.

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Legend Settings

When viewing a map, you can change classification type to use for displaying the data ranges, and also change the number of classes displayed on the map.

Screenshot of the BRFSS Prevalence and Trends Data Explore by Topic map view with Legend Settings options. Select a classification type to use for the data displayed on the map, e.g., Quantile (default), Natural Breaks, etc. Select the number of classes to display on the map.

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Note

The Note section displays more information for the data displayed on the page.

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Measure Definitions

The Measure Definitions section provides a description for the measures that are used on the page.

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Suggested Citation

The Suggested Citation section provides reference information for the information displayed on the page.

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