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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 2019 YRBSS Data)

Overweight (>= 85th percentile but <95th percentile for BMI based on sex and age)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, High School Students
Healthy People 2030 Objective Number: n/a

Sorted by Name
State
sort alphabetically by name descending 		Met Objective?1
 Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
sort by percent ascending 		Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States n/a1 16.1 (14.9, 17.5) 1,933 ##
Alabama n/a1 20.1 (18.0, 22.5) 386
Alaska n/a1 15.0 (12.8, 17.6) 269
Arizona n/a1 17.4 (15.7, 19.3) 301
Arkansas n/a1 19.8 (17.0, 22.8) 368
California n/a1 15.2 (12.7, 18.2) 197
Colorado n/a1 11.7 (9.4, 14.6) 136
Connecticut n/a1 14.9 (12.8, 17.3) 269
District of Columbia n/a1 17.6 (16.8, 18.5) 1,566
Florida n/a1 16.1 (14.9, 17.4) 805
Georgia n/a1 18.1 (16.4, 19.9) 689
Hawaii n/a1 14.4 (12.7, 16.2) 766
Idaho n/a1 12.4 (10.7, 14.5) 143
Illinois n/a1 15.5 (14.1, 17.0) 451
Iowa n/a1 15.9 (14.7, 17.2) 241
Kansas n/a1 15.7 (13.0, 18.8) 207
Kentucky n/a1 17.8 (16.0, 19.8) 344
Louisiana n/a1 17.8 (15.2, 20.8) 211
Maine n/a1 14.8 (13.7, 16.1) 1,131
Maryland n/a1 15.7 (15.0, 16.4) 5,746
Massachusetts n/a1 14.8 (13.2, 16.5) 307
Michigan n/a1 16.1 (14.6, 17.6) 757
Mississippi n/a1 18.0 (16.4, 19.7) 297
Missouri n/a1 16.1 (13.4, 19.1) 192
Montana n/a1 13.0 (11.7, 14.4) 468
Nebraska n/a1 12.8 (10.8, 15.1) 177
Nevada n/a1 16.7 (14.1, 19.6) 214
New Hampshire n/a1 14.0 (13.3, 14.8) 1,735
New Jersey n/a1 14.7 (12.1, 17.6) 195
New Mexico n/a1 15.8 (14.5, 17.1) 1,103
New York n/a1 16.3 (14.0, 18.9) 1,572
North Carolina n/a1 16.0 (14.5, 17.6) 459
North Dakota n/a1 16.5 (14.6, 18.6) 317
Ohio n/a1 12.2 (9.5, 15.6) 159
Oklahoma n/a1 18.1 (16.5, 19.8) 345
Pennsylvania n/a1 14.5 (12.9, 16.2) 311
Rhode Island n/a1 14.6 (12.5, 16.9) 223
South Carolina n/a1 16.3 (14.1, 18.7) 181
South Dakota n/a1 15.6 (14.0, 17.3) 226
Tennessee n/a1 18.3 (16.3, 20.5) 384
Texas n/a1 17.8 (15.8, 20.1) 343
Utah n/a1 12.3 (10.4, 14.5) 175
Vermont n/a1 13.7 (13.2, 14.2) 2,326
Virginia n/a1 15.8 (14.2, 17.6) 596
West Virginia n/a1 16.5 (14.2, 19.1) 227
Wisconsin n/a1 14.6 (13.0, 16.3) 250
Delaware data not available data not available data not available
Indiana data not available data not available data not available
Minnesota data not available data not available data not available
Oregon data not available data not available data not available
Puerto Rico data not available data not available data not available
Washington data not available data not available data not available
Wyoming data not available data not available data not available
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/25/2023 12:49 pm.
## Please note: The national and state surveys are done independently of each other so the number of respondents is not comparable across states or country.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.

1 n/a - There is not a specific Healthy People 2020 Objective for this data item.
2 Source: YRBSS Survey Data is the source for this data. YRBSS includes a national school-based survey conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments. Each survey sample (state or national) is only comparable to other groupings within the same survey. Data for several states are not available.

* < 100 respondents for the subgroup
Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

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