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, 2006

State/Territory Current
Sample
size±
% SE§ 95% CI
Alaska 129 32.2 6.9 (18.7 – 45.7)
Arizona 151 N/A N/A (N/A – N/A)
California 241 17.8 3.1 (11.7 – 23.9)
Colorado 269 14.7 2.6 (9.6 – 19.8)
Connecticut 313 12.7 2.2 (8.4 – 17.0)
District of Columbia 121 19.1 5.1 (9.1 – 29.1)
Georgia 240 17.3 3.9 (9.7 – 24.9)
Hawaii 220 19.5 3.6 (12.4 – 26.6)
Indiana 315 17.5 2.8 (12.0 – 23.0)
Iowa 177 21.1 3.7 (13.8 – 28.4)
Kansas 390 18.6 2.4 (13.9 – 23.3)
Maine 177 25.4 4.8 (16.0 – 34.8)
Maryland 282 14.7 2.6 (9.6 – 19.8)
Massachusetts 253 18.8 5.2 (8.6 – 29.0)
Michigan 315 22.6 3.1 (16.5 – 28.7)
Missouri 255 26.0 6.5 (13.3 – 38.7)
Montana 201 20.8 4.6 (11.8 – 29.8)
Nebraska 229 23.2 6.3 (10.9 – 35.5)
New Hampshire 230 20.8 3.4 (14.1 – 27.5)
New York 270 21.9 4.0 (14.1 – 29.7)
Oregon 290 14.8 2.7 (9.5 – 20.1)
Texas 209 16.7 4.1 (8.7 – 24.7)
Vermont 412 15.0 2.3 (10.5 – 19.5)
Washington 1,456 19.7 1.8 (16.2 – 23.2)
Wisconsin 221 25.8 5.7 (14.6 – 37.0)
25 areas total 7,366 19.2 1.2 (16.8 – 21.6)
Median   19.3    
Range   12.7-32.2    

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