Screening and Risk Factors Table

New: County level modeled estimates for breast or cervical screening, smoking, and colorectal screening.
  • How do you find them?

    These estimates are only available for

    • Mammogram in Past 2 Years, Ages 40+
    • Mammogram in Past 2 Years, Ages 50-75
    • Pap Smear in Past 3 Years, No Hysterectomy, Ages 18+
    • Had Colonoscopy in Past 10 Years, Ages 50-75
    • Guidance Sufficient CRC, Ages 50-75
    • Fecal occult blood test (FOBT), Ages 50-75
    • Smokers (current), Age 18+
    • Percent of Daily Smokers Who Stopped Smoking for 1 day or Longer in the Past 12 Months, Age 18+
    • Former Smoking Prevalence, Age 18+
    • Former Smoking Prevalence who Quit 1 Year, Age 18+
    • Percent of Workers in Non-Smoking Environments (All People)

    Select one of those statistics in the Screening and Risk Factors drop-down, and then you can choose County-Level Modeled Estimates in the Data Type drop-down when you choose Counties for a specific state (e.g., Alabama Counties) in the Area drop-down.

    For more about what these estimates are, see the Data Type Explanation.

  • Why are they different?

    One difference is that the direct estimate is from data collected in one year, while the modeled estimate relies on pooled data from 2017 through 2019 or 2018 through 2019.

    Another difference is that the modeled estimates use data from BRFSS as well as another survey (NHIS) that has a smaller but more representative sample, in that NHIS includes people without phones or with only cell phones. The national cancer screening prevalence estimates based on the BRFSS was sometimes substantially larger than the NHIS estimates for the same time period. For similar time periods, the modeled estimates may be closer to the true value.

    See the Data Type Explanation.

    The model uses multiple years (2008-2010) to provide reasonable sample sizes (mainly for estimates at the county level), and needs at least two years of data from each survey. For the screening questions, data actually came from year 2008 and 2010. For smoking, data came from each year of 2008 to 2010.

    1 Davis WW, Parsons VL, Xie D, Schenker N, Town M, Raghunathan TE, Feuer EJ. State-based estimates of mammography screening rates based on information from two health surveys. Public Health Rep 2010 Jul-Aug;125(4):567-578. [Access article]

Data Options

Screening and Risk Factors Report by State
(Directly Estimated 2022 BRFSS Data)

FOBT in last year and/or flex sig in last 5 years and FOBT in last 3 years and/or colonoscopy in last 10 years
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 50-75

Sorted by Name
State
 sort alphabetically by name ascending
Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
 sort by percent ascending
Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 71.9 N/A
Wyoming 64.1 (61.7, 66.6) 1,310
Wisconsin 76.3 (74.7, 77.8) 4,085
West Virginia 71.7 (69.6, 73.8) 1,846
Washington 74.4 (73.3, 75.5) 8,882
Virginia 75.4 (73.6, 77.2) 3,638
Vermont 75.0 (73.1, 77.0) 3,425
Utah 73.7 (71.8, 75.6) 2,667
Texas 67.2 (64.9, 69.6) 3,765
Tennessee 70.1 (67.5, 72.8) 1,630
South Dakota 70.6 (65.8, 75.4) 2,561
South Carolina 76.4 (74.7, 78.0) 3,629
Rhode Island 78.9 (76.7, 81.1) 2,260
Puerto Rico 59.7 (57.1, 62.3) 1,519
Pennsylvania 71.4 (68.1, 74.6) 1,490
Oregon 72.0 (69.6, 74.4) 1,782
Oklahoma 66.2 (63.9, 68.5) 1,596
Ohio 72.0 (70.4, 73.5) 5,509
North Dakota 71.6 (69.2, 74.0) 1,381
North Carolina 75.5 (72.9, 78.1) 1,401
New York 74.0 (72.4, 75.6) 5,659
New Mexico 63.9 (61.1, 66.7) 1,460
New Jersey 70.8 (68.4, 73.2) 2,387
New Hampshire 75.8 (73.8, 77.8) 2,682
Nevada 66.0 (62.3, 69.7) 982
Nebraska 69.1 (67.1, 71.2) 2,392
Montana 71.2 (69.2, 73.1) 2,437
Missouri 71.1 (68.9, 73.2) 2,266
Mississippi 68.8 (65.9, 71.7) 1,223
Minnesota 75.8 (74.4, 77.2) 5,811
Michigan 76.6 (75.0, 78.1) 3,638
Massachusetts 77.0 (75.2, 78.8) 3,487
Maryland 75.9 (74.3, 77.5) 5,623
Maine 77.1 (75.5, 78.7) 4,300
Louisiana 75.1 (72.9, 77.3) 1,895
Kentucky 70.4 (67.3, 73.4) 1,311
Kansas 71.3 (69.5, 73.1) 3,612
Iowa 73.7 (72.0, 75.5) 2,943
Indiana 74.5 (72.9, 76.0) 3,420
Illinois 70.8 (68.1, 73.6) 1,075
Idaho 68.8 (66.7, 70.9) 1,818
Hawaii 73.3 (71.1, 75.5) 2,581
Georgia 71.6 (69.4, 73.8) 2,955
Florida 71.7 (69.2, 74.3) 4,501
District of Columbia 76.8 (73.5, 80.1) 934
Delaware 74.5 (71.8, 77.3) 1,400
Connecticut 79.5 (77.5, 81.4) 3,482
Colorado 71.9 (70.1, 73.8) 2,724
California 66.3 (64.0, 68.6) 2,678
Arkansas 68.5 (66.1, 70.8) 1,670
Arizona 66.7 (64.4, 69.0) 3,093
Alaska 67.1 (64.5, 69.8) 1,827
Alabama 73.1 (70.4, 75.8) 1,687
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/28/2024 7:31 am.

2 2022 BRFSS Survey Data is the source for this data collected by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data for the US is a median and not a percent.

BRFSS Prevalence estimates presented here may vary from other published estimates due to differences in the methodology used to generate estimates.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

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