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2014 ACBS Landline-Cellphone Combined Prevalence Tables

TABLE 4a. Estimated percent reporting an asthma attack or episode in the past year among adults1 with current2 asthma by state/territory – BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey Land Line And Cell Phone Combined Sample, United States, 2014

State/Territory Sample
size±
Attack in past year No attack in past year No symptoms in past year
Sample
size
% SE§ 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI Sample
size
% SE 95% CI
Connecticut 211 106 51.8 6.0 (40.0 – 63.6) 74 32.4 5.5 (21.6 – 43.2) 31 15.9 3.7 (8.6 – 23.2)
District of Columbia 110 54 47.4 10.8 (26.2 – 68.6) 34 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A) 22 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Georgia 133 69 59.5 7.1 (45.6 – 73.4) 47 31.3 6.6 (18.4 – 44.2) 17 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Hawaii 185 84 42.2 6.5 (29.5 – 54.9) 68 39.9 5.8 (28.5 – 51.3) 33 18.0 4.3 (9.6 – 26.4)
Illinois 187 95 51.2 5.4 (40.6 – 61.8) 71 35.1 4.8 (25.7 – 44.5) 21 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Indiana 488 256 54.6 3.5 (47.7 – 61.5) 186 35.6 3.4 (28.9 – 42.3) 46 9.9 1.9 (6.2 – 13.6)
Iowa 228 92 38.6 4.7 (29.4 – 47.8) 105 49.9 4.9 (40.3 – 59.5) 31 11.4 3.0 (5.5 – 17.3)
Maine 288 150 58.1 4.1 (50.1 – 66.1) 110 33.3 3.8 (25.9 – 40.7) 28 8.6 2.2 (4.3 – 12.9)
Maryland 210 87 35.7 5.5 (24.9 – 46.5) 83 44.0 6.4 (31.5 – 56.5) 40 20.3 5.0 (10.5 – 30.1)
Michigan 413 206 46.1 3.5 (39.2 – 53.0) 173 43.2 3.5 (36.3 – 50.1) 34 10.7 2.7 (5.4 – 16.0)
Mississippi 130 69 65.9 5.9 (54.3 – 77.5) 48 28.4 5.5 (17.6 – 39.2) 13 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Missouri 254 129 53.3 4.9 (43.7 – 62.9) 105 39.6 4.8 (30.2 – 49.0) 20 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Montana 251 120 48.9 5.1 (38.9 – 58.9) 104 39.8 5.2 (29.6 – 50.0) 27 11.3 3.3 (4.8 – 17.8)
Nebraska 678 318 44.8 3.3 (38.3 – 51.3) 279 41.4 3.3 (34.9 – 47.9) 81 13.8 2.7 (8.5 – 19.1)
Nevada 133 75 65.9 5.9 (54.3 – 77.5) 42 28.4 5.8 (17.0 – 39.8) 16 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
New Hampshire 215 104 48.5 4.7 (39.3 – 57.7) 86 42.5 4.8 (33.1 – 51.9) 25 9.1 2.3 (4.6 – 13.6)
New Jersey 420 209 48.1 4.0 (40.3 – 55.9) 156 36.1 3.7 (28.8 – 43.4) 55 15.8 3.1 (9.7 – 21.9)
New Mexico 229 108 46.8 5.1 (36.8 – 56.8) 96 42.2 5.3 (31.8 – 52.6) 25 11.0 3.1 (4.9 – 17.1)
New York 116 58 46.3 7.3 (32.0 – 60.6) 43 42.2 7.4 (27.7 – 56.7) 15 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
North Carolina 128 74 59.5 7.9 (44.0 – 75.0) 44 26.0 5.5 (15.2 – 36.8) 10 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Ohio 336 168 55.7 4.1 (47.7 – 63.7) 141 34.8 3.8 (27.4 – 42.2) 27 9.5 2.5 (4.6 – 14.4)
Oklahoma 226 125 54.4 4.4 (45.8 – 63.0) 59 22.7 3.4 (16.0 – 29.4) 42 22.9 3.8 (15.5 – 30.3)
Oregon 163 82 54.0 6.3 (41.7 – 66.3) 69 42.4 6.3 (30.1 – 54.7) 12 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Pennsylvania 413 214 52.3 4.0 (44.5 – 60.1) 151 36.4 3.8 (29.0 – 43.8) 48 11.3 2.4 (6.6 – 16.0)
Rhode Island 189 103 54.8 6.1 (42.8 – 66.8) 69 38.4 6.1 (26.4 – 50.4) 17 6.8 2.0 (2.9 – 10.7)
Texas 468 260 54.4 4.2 (46.2 – 62.6) 175 38.0 4.1 (30.0 – 46.0) 33 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
Utah 507 260 50.4 2.9 (44.7 – 56.1) 192 38.5 2.9 (32.8 – 44.2) 55 11.1 1.9 (7.4 – 14.8)
Vermont 237 122 50.8 4.1 (42.8 – 58.8) 90 39.1 4.0 (31.3 – 46.9) 25 10.0 2.2 (5.7 – 14.3)
Washington 372 196 50.9 4.7 (41.7 – 60.1) 136 40.0 4.8 (30.6 – 49.4) 40 9.2 2.1 (5.1 – 13.3)
West Virginia 239 117 45.7 4.1 (37.7 – 53.7) 93 41.1 4.2 (32.9 – 49.3) 29 13.2 2.9 (7.5 – 18.9)
Wisconsin 243 121 53.5 5.3 (43.1 – 63.9) 93 31.5 4.4 (22.9 – 40.1) 29 15.0 4.5 (6.2 – 23.8)
Puerto Rico 352 133 39.7 3.6 (32.6 – 46.8) 162 43.5 3.6 (36.4 – 50.6) 57 16.8 2.8 (11.3 – 22.3)
32 state total 8,752 4,364 51.3 1.4 (48.6 – 54.0) 3,384 37.2 1.3 (34.7 – 39.7) 1,004 11.5 0.9 (9.7 – 13.3)
Median 51.1 38.5 11.3
Range 35.7-65.9 22.7-49.9 6.8-22.9

1 Aged ≥ 18 years

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

± 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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