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 Land Line Sample, United States, 2011

State/Territory Current
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI
Alabama 195 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 232 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 507 10.9 2.2 (6.6 – 15.2)
Connecticut 247 14.9 3.8 (7.5 – 22.3)
District of Columbia 148 12.5 3.7 (5.2 – 19.8)
Florida 364 21.3 5.7 (10.1 – 32.5)
Georgia 265 9.7 2.6 (4.6 – 14.8)
Hawaii 243 22.8 5.2 (12.6 – 33.0)
Illinois 176 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Indiana 329 13.5 3.0 (7.6 – 19.4)
Iowa 194 17.8 5.1 (7.8 – 27.8)
Kansas 725 21.2 3.5 (14.3 – 28.1)
Louisiana 266 7.1 2.1 (3.0 – 11.2)
Maine 270 15.9 3.4 (9.2 – 22.6)
Maryland 210 18.0 4.3 (9.6 – 26.4)
Massachusetts 235 15.1 4.1 (7.1 – 23.1)
Michigan 496 18.6 3.6 (11.5 – 25.7)
Mississippi 266 24.1 6.5 (11.4 – 36.8)
Missouri 219 16.3 3.7 (9.0 – 23.6)
Montana 334 19.9 3.5 (13.0 – 26.8)
Nebraska 667 19.8 3.6 (12.7 – 26.9)
Nevada 133 20.9 6.1 (8.9 – 32.9)
New Hampshire 219 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Jersey 339 25.6 5.4 (15.0 – 36.2)
New Mexico 316 16.2 4.4 (7.6 – 24.8)
New York 135 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 230 20.1 5.9 (8.5 – 31.7)
North Dakota 170 12.9 3.5 (6.0 – 19.8)
Ohio 316 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oklahoma 295 13.1 3.6 (6.0 – 20.2)
Oregon 182 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Pennsylvania 373 9.9 2.0 (6.0 – 13.8)
Rhode Island 244 20.1 5.5 (9.3 – 30.9)
Texas 514 17.5 3.6 (10.4 – 24.6)
Utah 412 17.0 3.4 (10.3 – 23.7)
Vermont 304 18.7 3.7 (11.4 – 26.0)
Washington 666 13.8 2.4 (9.1 – 18.5)
West Virginia 193 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 234 17.0 4.5 (8.2 – 25.8)
Puerto Rico 295 13.5 2.9 (7.8 – 19.2)
40 state total 12,158 15.8 0.9 (14.0 – 17.6)
Median   17.0    
Range   7.1-25.6    

1 Aged ≥ 18 years
2 “Yes” response to “Do you still have asthma?”
± Landline 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