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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
(2021 American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation)

Percent of State Population with 100% Smokefree Restaurant Laws
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Percent
State
sort alphabetically by name ascending 		Percent 2
sort by percent descending 		Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 77.8 3,012,903
Oklahoma 0.0 3,608,123
Tennessee 0.0 6,149,116
Virginia 3.0 7,698,775
Arkansas 4.7 2,830,557
Pennsylvania 12.1 1,241,993
Georgia 15.3 9,523,297
Alabama 23.5 4,626,595
Wyoming 32.7 523,252
Mississippi 39.3 2,921,030
Kentucky 39.6 4,236,308
South Carolina 41.0 4,404,914
Missouri 41.6 5,878,399
Texas 49.8 2,384,343
Alaska 50.3 681,111
West Virginia 77.9 1,809,836
Arizona 100.0 6,353,421
California 100.0 3,637,753
Colorado 100.0 4,842,770
Connecticut 100.0 3,489,868
Delaware 100.0 861,953
District of Columbia 100.0 587,868
Florida 100.0 1,819,952
Hawaii 100.0 1,277,356
Idaho 100.0 1,496,145
Illinois 100.0 1,282,580
Indiana 100.0 6,335,862
Iowa 100.0 2,983,360
Kansas 100.0 2,777,382
Louisiana 100.0 4,373,310
Maine 100.0 1,315,398
Maryland 100.0 5,618,899
Massachusetts 100.0 6,467,915
Michigan 100.0 1,004,979
Minnesota 100.0 5,182,360
Montana 100.0 956,624
Nebraska 100.0 1,769,473
Nevada 100.0 2,554,344
New Hampshire 100.0 1,312,256
New Jersey 100.0 8,653,126
New Mexico 100.0 1,964,402
New York 100.0 1,942,931
North Carolina 100.0 9,041,594
North Dakota 100.0 637,904
Ohio 100.0 1,147,764
Oregon 100.0 3,735,549
Rhode Island 100.0 1,053,136
South Dakota 100.0 795,689
Utah 100.0 2,668,925
Vermont 100.0 620,748
Washington 100.0 6,449,511
Wisconsin 100.0 5,598,893
Puerto Rico data not available data not available
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/29/2023 7:44 am.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.

2 Source: American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (January 1, 2023: no-smoke.orgExternal Web Site Policy).
This table lists the percent of each state's population covered by 100% smokefree air laws enacted by the state and/or local municipalities. Only ordinances and laws currently in effect are listed in the table.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

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