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TABLE 8a. Estimated percent advised to make environmental changes for current1 and former2 asthma status among adults3 ever diagnosed with asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey, United States, 2006
| State/Territory | Current | Former | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size± |
% | SE§ | 95% CI† | Sample size |
% | SE | 95% CI | |
| Alaska | 129 | 45.8 | 7.4 | (31.3 – 60.3) | 43 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Arizona | 153 | 43.5 | 8.2 | (27.4 – 59.6) | 72 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| California | 245 | 46.9 | 4.3 | (38.5 – 55.3) | 106 | 22.8 | 4.9 | (13.2 – 32.4) |
| Colorado | 274 | 38.4 | 3.8 | (31.0 – 45.8) | 99 | 27.9 | 5.3 | (17.5 – 38.3) |
| Connecticut | 322 | 45.9 | 4.2 | (37.7 – 54.1) | 104 | 33.0 | 7.0 | (19.3 – 46.7) |
| District of Columbia | 125 | 48.5 | 7.4 | (34.0 – 63.0) | 61 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Georgia | 245 | 47.8 | 5.0 | (38.0 – 57.6) | 108 | 27.7 | 6.4 | (15.2 – 40.2) |
| Hawaii | 223 | 35.4 | 4.5 | (26.6 – 44.2) | 169 | 21.4 | 4.8 | (12.0 – 30.8) |
| Indiana | 318 | 45.7 | 3.5 | (38.8 – 52.6) | 113 | 43.6 | 6.9 | (30.1 – 57.1) |
| Iowa | 180 | 33.2 | 4.0 | (25.4 – 41.0) | 88 | 18.0 | 4.4 | (9.4 – 26.6) |
| Kansas | 395 | 42.4 | 3.4 | (35.7 – 49.1) | 102 | 25.7 | 5.5 | (14.9 – 36.5) |
| Maine | 180 | 46.5 | 4.9 | (36.9 – 56.1) | 54 | 31.1 | 7.4 | (16.6 – 45.6) |
| Maryland | 287 | 41.6 | 4.3 | (33.2 – 50.0) | 120 | 27.6 | 6.6 | (14.7 – 40.5) |
| Massachusetts | 261 | 44.2 | 5.2 | (34.0 – 54.4) | 92 | 23.0 | 5.8 | (11.6 – 34.4) |
| Michigan | 320 | 47.9 | 3.6 | (40.8 – 55.0) | 84 | 30.6 | 6.1 | (18.6 – 42.6) |
| Missouri | 257 | 40.1 | 5.9 | (28.5 – 51.7) | 93 | 37.5 | 10.0 | (17.9 – 57.1) |
| Montana | 205 | 41.3 | 5.1 | (31.3 – 51.3) | 83 | 33.5 | 6.6 | (20.6 – 46.4) |
| Nebraska | 229 | 38.6 | 6.5 | (25.9 – 51.3) | 66 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| New Hampshire | 237 | 49.3 | 4.3 | (40.9 – 57.7) | 82 | 38.4 | 8.0 | (22.7 – 54.1) |
| New York | 273 | 44.8 | 4.2 | (36.6 – 53.0) | 83 | 43.4 | 7.6 | (28.5 – 58.3) |
| Oregon | 290 | 39.0 | 4.7 | (29.8 – 48.2) | 143 | 22.5 | 5.3 | (12.1 – 32.9) |
| Texas | 214 | 46.0 | 6.5 | (33.3 – 58.7) | 85 | N/A | N/A | (N/A – N/A) |
| Vermont | 417 | 41.8 | 3.1 | (35.7 – 47.9) | 144 | 30.3 | 4.8 | (20.9 – 39.7) |
| Washington | 1,471 | 44.2 | 2.2 | (39.9 – 48.5) | 661 | 25.5 | 2.6 | (20.4 – 30.6) |
| Wisconsin | 223 | 50.2 | 5.7 | (39.0 – 61.4) | 68 | 38.2 | 8.2 | (22.1 – 54.3) |
| 25 areas total | 7,473 | 45.1 | 1.5 | (42.2 – 48.0) | 2,923 | 27.1 | 2.1 | (23.0 – 31.2) |
| Median | 44.2 | 29.1 | ||||||
| Range | 33.2-50.2 | 18.0-43.6 | ||||||
1 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
2 “No” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
3 Aged ≥ 18 years
± 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