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, Age 40+
    • Pap Smear in Past 3 Years, No Hysterectomy, Ages 18+
    • Fecal occult blood test (FOBT) in Past 2 Years, Ages 50+
    • Ever Had Colorectal Endoscopy (sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy), Ages 50+
    • Ever Had Colorectal Cancer Test (home-based FOBT in the past two years or ever had a colorectal endoscopy), Ages 50+
    • Smokers (current or ever), Age 18+

    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 2008 through 2010.

    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 period1. 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 2021 BRFSS Data)

Consumed 1 or More Fruits per Day
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 18+

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 59.2 N/A
Puerto Rico 48.91 (46.71, 51.11) 1,926
Oklahoma 51.28 (49.40, 53.16) 2,369
Louisiana 51.43 (49.41, 53.45) 2,253
Mississippi 53.16 (51.10, 55.22) 2,204
Tennessee 53.94 (51.94, 55.94) 2,325
West Virginia 54.04 (52.51, 55.57) 3,493
Alabama 54.20 (52.18, 56.22) 2,337
Arkansas 54.57 (52.39, 56.75) 2,676
Kentucky 55.03 (53.11, 56.95) 2,735
North Dakota 55.99 (54.23, 57.75) 3,220
Kansas 56.33 (55.35, 57.31) 9,106
Missouri 56.61 (55.18, 58.04) 6,337
South Dakota 56.61 (53.75, 59.47) 4,078
Wyoming 56.66 (54.37, 58.95) 2,414
Ohio 57.03 (55.76, 58.30) 7,238
Indiana 57.26 (55.95, 58.57) 5,045
Nebraska 57.28 (56.10, 58.46) 8,035
Hawaii 57.47 (55.86, 59.08) 4,474
Alaska 57.90 (55.74, 60.06) 2,938
South Carolina 58.03 (56.46, 59.60) 4,957
Nevada 58.07 (55.23, 60.91) 1,487
Idaho 58.27 (56.70, 59.84) 3,687
Arizona 58.40 (56.99, 59.81) 5,726
Iowa 58.50 (57.15, 59.85) 5,263
New Mexico 58.76 (57.00, 60.52) 3,553
Georgia 58.99 (57.17, 60.81) 4,037
Texas 59.42 (57.68, 61.16) 5,464
North Carolina 59.66 (57.86, 61.46) 2,796
Montana 59.97 (58.36, 61.58) 3,524
Delaware 60.34 (58.01, 62.67) 1,931
Virginia 60.39 (58.92, 61.86) 5,266
Michigan 60.60 (59.21, 61.99) 5,122
Pennsylvania 60.69 (59.00, 62.38) 3,520
Illinois 60.91 (58.58, 63.24) 1,814
Wisconsin 61.18 (59.30, 63.06) 3,640
Colorado 61.90 (60.70, 63.10) 5,834
Oregon 62.28 (60.63, 63.93) 3,072
Utah 62.28 (61.03, 63.53) 6,087
Maryland 62.93 (61.70, 64.16) 8,587
Massachusetts 63.33 (61.82, 64.84) 4,509
Minnesota 63.63 (62.65, 64.61) 9,236
California 63.80 (62.15, 65.45) 3,932
Washington 63.93 (62.75, 65.11) 7,855
New Hampshire 64.26 (62.46, 66.06) 3,908
New York 64.34 (63.40, 65.28) 21,800
Connecticut 64.62 (63.01, 66.23) 4,705
New Jersey 64.86 (63.31, 66.41) 4,353
Maine 64.99 (63.66, 66.32) 7,305
Rhode Island 65.11 (63.33, 66.89) 3,233
Vermont 66.04 (64.20, 67.88) 4,024
District of Columbia 67.16 (64.63, 69.69) 1,830
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/27/2023 9:04 am.

2 2021 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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