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)

Binge drinking (4+ drinks on one occasion for women, 5+ drinks on one occasion for men)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 21+

Sorted by Percent
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 16.7 N/A
District of Columbia 26.2 (23.9, 28.4) 566
North Dakota 22.8 (21.1, 24.5) 676
Iowa 21.9 (20.7, 23.1) 1,515
Montana 21.7 (20.4, 23.0) 1,144
Wisconsin 20.0 (18.9, 21.2) 1,668
Minnesota 19.8 (19.0, 20.7) 2,611
Colorado 19.2 (18.2, 20.2) 1,448
Nebraska 19.2 (17.8, 20.5) 979
South Dakota 19.0 (16.3, 21.8) 1,135
Missouri 18.7 (17.4, 20.1) 1,045
Ohio 18.3 (17.3, 19.3) 2,068
Oregon 18.3 (17.0, 19.5) 875
Wyoming 18.3 (16.6, 20.1) 476
Hawaii 18.2 (16.9, 19.4) 1,108
Vermont 18.2 (16.9, 19.4) 1,102
Alaska 18.1 (16.6, 19.5) 825
Nevada 17.9 (15.8, 20.0) 430
California 17.8 (16.6, 19.0) 1,555
Illinois 17.6 (16.0, 19.1) 656
Arizona 17.5 (16.1, 18.9) 1,127
Massachusetts 17.4 (16.4, 18.4) 1,638
Kansas 17.2 (16.1, 18.2) 1,358
Pennsylvania 17.2 (15.5, 18.8) 714
Michigan 17.1 (16.0, 18.2) 1,191
Rhode Island 17.1 (15.5, 18.7) 690
New York 16.7 (15.8, 17.6) 2,252
North Carolina 16.7 (15.2, 18.2) 625
South Carolina 16.7 (15.5, 18.0) 1,054
Texas 16.7 (15.5, 17.9) 1,802
New Hampshire 16.6 (15.1, 18.2) 624
Virginia 16.5 (15.3, 17.7) 1,180
Louisiana 16.3 (15.0, 17.7) 697
Washington 16.0 (15.3, 16.6) 3,203
Arkansas 15.8 (14.2, 17.3) 522
New Jersey 15.8 (14.5, 17.0) 953
Connecticut 15.6 (14.4, 16.8) 1,154
Idaho 15.6 (14.4, 16.8) 773
Maine 15.3 (14.3, 16.4) 1,206
New Mexico 15.3 (13.7, 17.0) 469
Tennessee 15.3 (13.9, 16.7) 571
Florida 15.0 (13.6, 16.4) 1,367
Indiana 14.7 (13.8, 15.6) 1,095
Georgia 14.6 (13.4, 15.9) 859
Delaware 14.1 (12.4, 15.8) 415
West Virginia 13.7 (12.5, 15.0) 518
Mississippi 13.6 (12.1, 15.0) 460
Maryland 13.5 (12.6, 14.5) 1,602
Oklahoma 13.5 (12.3, 14.7) 556
Puerto Rico 13.5 (12.1, 14.8) 637
Kentucky 13.1 (11.5, 14.6) 401
Utah 13.1 (12.1, 14.0) 907
Alabama 12.5 (11.1, 14.0) 405
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/28/2024 12:43 am.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.

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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