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, United States, 2010

State/Territory Current Former
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
Alabama 284 61.4 4.3 (53.0 – 69.8) 77 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 268 49.8 6.3 (37.5 – 62.1) 98 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 490 39.0 3.2 (32.7 – 45.3) 164 20.9 5.3 (10.5 – 31.3)
Connecticut 238 46.0 5.6 (35.0 – 57.0) 85 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
District of Columbia 128 45.7 6.0 (33.9 – 57.5) 68 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Florida 378 47.7 5.1 (37.7 – 57.7) 145 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Georgia 160 51.0 5.8 (39.6 – 62.4) 60 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Hawaii 260 47.5 5.1 (37.5 – 57.5) 162 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Illinois 165 41.9 5.6 (30.9 – 52.9) 58 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Indiana 444 54.2 3.6 (47.1 – 61.3) 154 27.5 5.8 (16.1 – 38.9)
Iowa 249 39.9 4.3 (31.5 – 48.3) 83 18.2 5.1 (8.2 – 28.2)
Kansas 395 46.2 4.2 (38.0 – 54.4) 123 15.4 3.6 (8.3 – 22.5)
Louisiana 172 47.4 7.5 (32.7 – 62.1) 71 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maine 423 51.9 3.7 (44.6 – 59.2) 151 20.6 4.8 (11.2 – 30.0)
Maryland 247 46.7 5.9 (35.1 – 58.3) 115 15.6 4.0 (7.8 – 23.4)
Massachusetts 206 36.3 6.0 (24.5 – 48.1) 71 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Michigan 510 52.1 3.5 (45.2 – 59.0) 165 36.0 5.4 (25.4 – 46.6)
Mississippi 301 62.0 4.5 (53.2 – 70.8) 82 27.8 7.2 (13.7 – 41.9)
Missouri 248 56.9 5.2 (46.7 – 67.1) 77 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 312 49.1 4.8 (39.7 – 58.5) 118 26.9 5.9 (15.3 – 38.5)
Nebraska 585 42.0 4.5 (33.2 – 50.8) 187 14.8 3.8 (7.4 – 22.2)
Nevada 133 49.8 6.7 (36.7 – 62.9) 53 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 268 38.8 4.9 (29.2 – 48.4) 81 25.4 6.0 (13.6 – 37.2)
New Jersey 322 36.8 4.9 (27.2 – 46.4) 113 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Mexico 317 43.1 4.8 (33.7 – 52.5) 110 22.8 6.3 (10.5 – 35.1)
New York 121 43.6 6.0 (31.8 – 55.4) 37 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Dakota 161 40.0 6.5 (27.3 – 52.7) 45 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 343 43.5 4.4 (34.9 – 52.1) 110 26.3 6.6 (13.4 – 39.2)
Oklahoma 311 57.3 4.4 (48.7 – 65.9) 96 21.9 5.4 (11.3 – 32.5)
Oregon 191 59.5 5.8 (48.1 – 70.9) 103 14.7 4.4 (6.1 – 23.3)
Pennsylvania 391 47.4 3.8 (40.0 – 54.8) 109 21.2 5.1 (11.2 – 31.2)
Rhode Island 296 39.7 4.4 (31.1 – 48.3) 99 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Texas 620 44.2 4.7 (35.0 – 53.4) 266 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Utah 428 42.3 4.6 (33.3 – 51.3) 183 18.0 4.2 (9.8 – 26.2)
Vermont 369 37.4 3.5 (30.5 – 44.3) 127 19.3 4.1 (11.3 – 27.3)
Washington 618 49.4 3.4 (42.7 – 56.1) 316 19.8 3.9 (12.2 – 27.4)
West Virginia 186 38.9 4.8 (29.5 – 48.3) 53 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 212 40.2 5.1 (30.2 – 50.2) 65 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Puerto Rico 110 49.6 10.9 (28.2 – 71.0) 87 29.0 7.7 (13.9 – 44.1)
39 state total 11,860 45.6 1.1 (43.4 – 47.8) 4,367 20.6 1.4 (17.9 – 23.3)
Median   46.2       21.1    
Range   36.3-62.0       14.7-36.0    

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