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, United States, 2007

State/Territory Current
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI
Alaska 95 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Arizona 159 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 194 17.3 3.8 (9.9 – 24.7)
Colorado 266 16.5 3.5 (9.6 – 23.4)
Connecticut 262 27.2 5.6 (16.2 – 38.2)
District of Columbia 116 16.0 4.0 (8.2 – 23.8)
Florida 516 11.2 3.1 (5.1 – 17.3)
Georgia 264 15.8 3.1 (9.7 – 21.9)
Hawaii 298 18.1 3.6 (11.0 – 25.2)
Illinois 207 27.3 4.6 (18.3 – 36.3)
Indiana 302 20.4 3.8 (13.0 – 27.8)
Iowa 203 26.2 5.2 (16.0 – 36.4)
Kansas 398 26.9 4.1 (18.9 – 34.9)
Maine 369 10.5 1.9 (6.8 – 14.2)
Maryland 288 16.0 2.7 (10.7 – 21.3)
Massachusetts 178 10.7 2.9 (5.0 – 16.4)
Michigan 388 19.9 3.3 (13.4 – 26.4)
Missouri 245 15.8 3.1 (9.7 – 21.9)
Montana 239 23.0 4.8 (13.6 – 32.4)
Nebraska 416 15.2 3.0 (9.3 – 21.1)
Nevada 202 22.0 4.3 (13.6 – 30.4)
New Hampshire 229 18.9 3.4 (12.2 – 25.6)
New Mexico 238 17.4 3.6 (10.3 – 24.5)
New York 279 16.9 3.5 (10.0 – 23.8)
Ohio 407 17.1 2.6 (12.0 – 22.2)
Oklahoma 278 22.7 4.1 (14.7 – 30.7)
Oregon 315 23.2 4.4 (14.6 – 31.8)
Pennsylvania 213 18.3 4.3 (9.9 – 26.7)
Texas 267 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Utah 214 21.5 4.1 (13.5 – 29.5)
Vermont 378 19.1 3.3 (12.6 – 25.6)
Washington 1,512 15.2 1.6 (12.1 – 18.3)
West Virginia 251 12.6 2.5 (7.7 – 17.5)
Wisconsin 234 24.0 4.2 (15.8 – 32.2)
34 areas total 10,420 18.3 1.1 (16.1 – 20.5)
Median   18.1    
Range   10.5-27.3    

1 Aged ≥ 18 years

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

± 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