2013 BRFSS Asthma Call-Back Survey Prevalence Tables

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 Land Line Sample, United States, 2013

State/Territory Current Former
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
Alabama 120 79.3 6.3 (67.0 – 91.6) 29 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 100 55.1 10.5 (34.5 – 75.7) 29 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 166 35.2 5.8 (23.8 – 46.6) 90 23.6 6.4 (11.1 – 36.1)
Connecticut 200 46.7 7.0 (33.0 – 60.4) 86 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Florida 699 57.4 5.5 (46.6 – 68.2) 241 17.3 4.5 (8.5 – 26.1)
Georgia 119 65.5 7.9 (50.0 – 81.0) 63 39.3 10.5 (18.7 – 59.9)
Hawaii 105 57.2 9.4 (38.8 – 75.6) 55 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Indiana 309 51.5 5.7 (40.3 – 62.7) 87 34.0 8.6 (17.1 – 50.9)
Iowa 202 55.1 7.7 (40.0 – 70.2) 68 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Kansas 606 53.3 3.9 (45.7 – 60.9) 165 32.5 7.2 (18.4 – 46.6)
Kentucky 318 57.5 5.5 (46.7 – 68.3) 65 30.7 9.0 (13.1 – 48.3)
Louisiana 119 72.6 5.2 (62.4 – 82.8) 50 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maine 213 50.5 6.0 (38.7 – 62.3) 58 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Maryland 217 46.1 6.0 (34.3 – 57.9) 68 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Massachusetts 135 39.4 9.2 (21.4 – 57.4) 38 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Michigan 446 57.0 4.4 (48.4 – 65.6) 99 30.1 8.2 (14.0 – 46.2)
Mississippi 197 49.1 8.6 (32.2 – 66.0) 54 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Missouri 203 70.8 5.8 (59.4 – 82.2) 56 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 245 60.0 8.1 (44.1 – 75.9) 77 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Nebraska 255 43.4 8.1 (27.5 – 59.3) 84 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Nevada 95 68.6 8.4 (52.1 – 85.1) 49 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 201 52.1 6.9 (38.6 – 65.6) 67 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Jersey 244 54.9 6.1 (42.9 – 66.9) 78 20.9 5.9 (9.3 – 32.5)
New Mexico 214 48.8 6.1 (36.8 – 60.8) 70 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New York 106 66.3 7.5 (51.6 – 81.0) 31 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 103 74.3 6.6 (61.4 – 87.2) 35 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 234 53.4 6.5 (40.7 – 66.1) 68 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oklahoma 211 55.4 6.3 (43.1 – 67.7) 69 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Oregon 155 43.4 7.8 (28.1 – 58.7) 63 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Pennsylvania 238 57.9 6.0 (46.1 – 69.7) 77 20.1 5.4 (9.5 – 30.7)
Rhode Island 183 46.0 7.1 (32.1 – 59.9) 38 41.0 12.1 (17.3 – 64.7)
Texas 195 46.9 8.0 (31.2 – 62.6) 81 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Utah 300 49.2 6.3 (36.9 – 61.5) 120 21.9 5.8 (10.5 – 33.3)
Vermont 179 49.8 7.3 (35.5 – 64.1) 62 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Washington 278 53.7 6.6 (40.8 – 66.6) 94 25.4 7.5 (10.7 – 40.1)
West Virginia 119 57.4 6.0 (45.6 – 69.2) 19 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Wisconsin 183 54.0 7.0 (40.3 – 67.7) 36 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Puerto Rico 203 47.0 6.4 (34.5 – 59.5) 109 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
38 state total 8,415 53.9 1.7 (50.6 – 57.2) 2,728 24.9 2.2 (20.6 – 29.2)
Median   53.9       27.8    
Range   35.2-79.3       17.3-41.0    

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

2 “No” response to “Do you still have asthma?”

3 Aged ≥ 18 years

± 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