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)

Received at Least One Recommended CRC Test
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 45-75

Sorted by Percent
State
 sort alphabetically by name ascending
Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
 sort by percent descending
Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 66.9 N/A
Puerto Rico 55.5 (53.1, 57.9) 1,687
New Mexico 58.4 (55.7, 61.1) 1,532
Wyoming 59.9 (57.5, 62.3) 1,386
Nevada 60.9 (57.2, 64.7) 1,044
Oklahoma 61.1 (59.0, 63.2) 1,746
Texas 61.4 (59.1, 63.6) 4,084
California 61.5 (59.3, 63.6) 2,890
Arizona 61.7 (59.5, 63.9) 3,299
Alaska 62.2 (59.7, 64.7) 1,949
Mississippi 62.5 (59.8, 65.2) 1,322
Idaho 63.6 (61.6, 65.6) 1,970
Arkansas 64.0 (61.8, 66.3) 1,791
Nebraska 64.1 (62.1, 66.1) 2,551
Tennessee 64.3 (61.7, 66.8) 1,733
Kansas 65.1 (63.3, 66.9) 3,844
Utah 65.2 (63.4, 67.1) 2,888
New Jersey 65.4 (63.2, 67.6) 2,568
Oregon 65.4 (63.2, 67.6) 1,898
Colorado 65.5 (63.7, 67.3) 2,945
Illinois 65.5 (62.8, 68.2) 1,178
South Dakota 65.5 (60.8, 70.3) 2,725
Montana 65.7 (63.8, 67.6) 2,559
Missouri 65.9 (63.8, 68.0) 2,433
Georgia 66.0 (63.8, 68.2) 3,150
North Dakota 66.4 (64.0, 68.8) 1,469
Hawaii 66.9 (64.8, 69.1) 2,709
Pennsylvania 66.9 (63.8, 70.0) 1,599
Florida 67.1 (64.6, 69.6) 4,793
Kentucky 67.2 (64.3, 70.1) 1,434
Ohio 67.6 (66.2, 69.1) 5,940
Washington 67.6 (66.6, 68.7) 9,424
Alabama 67.7 (65.1, 70.3) 1,782
North Carolina 68.1 (65.6, 70.7) 1,512
West Virginia 68.1 (66.0, 70.2) 2,008
Iowa 68.5 (66.8, 70.2) 3,144
New York 69.0 (67.5, 70.5) 6,067
Louisiana 69.3 (67.1, 71.5) 2,011
Indiana 69.6 (68.0, 71.1) 3,675
Vermont 69.6 (67.7, 71.5) 3,597
Minnesota 69.7 (68.3, 71.0) 6,225
Delaware 70.1 (67.4, 72.8) 1,494
Virginia 70.3 (68.5, 72.1) 3,908
South Carolina 70.7 (69.0, 72.4) 3,821
District of Columbia 70.8 (67.6, 73.9) 1,013
Massachusetts 70.9 (69.2, 72.7) 3,780
Michigan 71.2 (69.6, 72.8) 3,865
New Hampshire 71.6 (69.6, 73.6) 2,801
Maryland 71.8 (70.2, 73.3) 6,057
Wisconsin 71.9 (70.4, 73.5) 4,370
Maine 72.2 (70.5, 73.8) 4,525
Rhode Island 74.3 (72.1, 76.5) 2,384
Connecticut 75.3 (73.4, 77.2) 3,725
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/27/2024 11:15 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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