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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 And Cell Phone Combined Sample, United States, 2013

State/TerritoryCurrentFormer
Sample
size±
%SE§95% CISample
size
%SE95% CI
California23536.34.5(27.5 - 45.1)13823.64.6(14.6 - 32.6)
Connecticut23943.55.1(33.5 - 53.5)105N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Georgia14163.76.2(51.5 - 75.9)9022.15.5(11.3 - 32.9)
Hawaii18250.66.0(38.8 - 62.4)10121.36.3(9.0 - 33.6)
Indiana39352.33.7(45.0 - 59.6)12934.85.8(23.4 - 46.2)
Iowa25453.65.4(43.0 - 64.2)10018.24.9(8.6 - 27.8)
Maryland25554.55.3(44.1 - 64.9)87N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Michigan63360.62.9(54.9 - 66.3)15427.64.5(18.8 - 36.4)
Mississippi24758.86.1(46.8 - 70.8)7730.08.5(13.3 - 46.7)
Missouri26361.35.2(51.1 - 71.5)6916.14.6(7.1 - 25.1)
Montana30855.54.4(46.9 - 64.1)12527.15.2(16.9 - 37.3)
Nebraska31445.16.2(32.9 - 57.3)11725.76.5(13.0 - 38.4)
Nevada13070.46.0(58.6 - 82.2)62N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
New Hampshire24950.55.4(39.9 - 61.1)9219.95.7(8.7 - 31.1)
New Jersey30449.34.5(40.5 - 58.1)11824.35.5(13.5 - 35.1)
New Mexico31451.64.3(43.2 - 60.0)10711.43.3(4.9 - 17.9)
New York12862.46.1(50.4 - 74.4)41N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
North Carolina12262.66.6(49.7 - 75.5)4449.911.8(26.8 - 73.0)
Ohio30763.74.8(54.3 - 73.1)9119.65.0(9.8 - 29.4)
Oklahoma24556.95.1(46.9 - 66.9)8224.97.3(10.6 - 39.2)
Oregon19254.95.7(43.7 - 66.1)8431.77.6(16.8 - 46.6)
Pennsylvania30054.54.1(46.5 - 62.5)11625.04.8(15.6 - 34.4)
Texas24943.55.5(32.7 - 54.3)11429.67.1(15.7 - 43.5)
Utah43454.63.5(47.7 - 61.5)18916.13.1(10.0 - 22.2)
Vermont22542.45.8(31.0 - 53.8)809.42.8(3.9 - 14.9)
Washington35652.04.0(44.2 - 59.8)12621.04.3(12.6 - 29.4)
West Virginia17857.14.8(47.7 - 66.5)33N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Wisconsin26057.35.1(47.3 - 67.3)67N/AN/A(N/A - N/A)
Puerto Rico33246.54.2(38.3 - 54.7)19225.14.5(16.3 - 33.9)
28 state total7,78952.51.5(49.6 - 55.4)2,93024.71.7(21.4 - 28.0)
Median 54.5   24.3  
Range 36.3-70.4   9.4-49.9  

1 "Yes" response to "Do you still have asthma?"

2 "No" response to "Do you still have asthma?"

3 Aged ≥ 18 years

± Landline and cell phone combined 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

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