TABLE 14. Estimated percent with asthma caused or made worse by their current job among adults1 with current2 asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey, United States, 2008

State/Territory Current
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI
Arizona 146 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 406 16.4 3.9 (8.8 – 24.0)
Connecticut 238 21.4 4.8 (12.0 – 30.8)
District of Columbia 145 12.5 3.4 (5.8 – 19.2)
Florida 305 20.8 4.9 (11.2 – 30.4)
Georgia 207 24.2 6.8 (10.9 – 37.5)
Hawaii 310 20.6 4.0 (12.8 – 28.4)
Illinois 231 16.8 3.4 (10.1 – 23.5)
Indiana 233 13.2 2.8 (7.7 – 18.7)
Iowa 244 23.5 5.0 (13.7 – 33.3)
Kansas 420 18.9 3.3 (12.4 – 25.4)
Maine 384 20.8 3.2 (14.5 – 27.1)
Maryland 329 15.1 2.9 (9.4 – 20.8)
Massachusetts 302 13.8 2.9 (8.1 – 19.5)
Michigan 506 13.6 2.4 (8.9 – 18.3)
Missouri 238 22.5 4.6 (13.5 – 31.5)
Montana 237 21.6 4.5 (12.8 – 30.4)
Nebraska 575 16.5 2.7 (11.2 – 21.8)
Nevada 189 22.0 4.9 (12.4 – 31.6)
New Hampshire 319 19.4 3.1 (13.3 – 25.5)
New Jersey 316 20.3 3.7 (13.0 – 27.6)
New Mexico 269 22.8 4.3 (14.4 – 31.2)
New York 307 19.3 3.2 (13.0 – 25.6)
North Dakota 198 18.5 3.7 (11.2 – 25.8)
Ohio 344 15.4 3.3 (8.9 – 21.9)
Oklahoma 275 18.3 3.9 (10.7 – 25.9)
Oregon 272 9.9 2.1 (5.8 – 14.0)
Rhode Island 271 16.7 3.8 (9.3 – 24.1)
Texas 387 17.2 2.9 (11.5 – 22.9)
Utah 229 24.5 4.3 (16.1 – 32.9)
Vermont 386 13.6 2.6 (8.5 – 18.7)
Virginia 216 10.6 2.8 (5.1 – 16.1)
Washington 497 16.7 2.4 (12.0 – 21.4)
West Virginia 244 19.1 3.5 (12.2 – 26.0)
Wisconsin 237 22.6 4.3 (14.2 – 31.0)
35 areas total 10,412 17.4 1.0 (15.4 – 19.4)
Median   18.7    
Range   9.9-24.5    

1 Aged ≥ 18 years

2 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”

± 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