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)

Had a Mammogram in Past 2 Years
All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, Ages 50-74

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 76.3 N/A
Wyoming 65.2 (61.8, 68.5) 706
Idaho 68.5 (65.6, 71.4) 933
Alaska 68.8 (65.0, 72.5) 873
Oklahoma 69.3 (66.3, 72.3) 882
New Mexico 69.4 (65.7, 73.1) 857
Nevada 70.5 (65.4, 75.7) 508
Colorado 71.1 (68.2, 74.0) 1,332
Illinois 72.8 (68.6, 77.0) 592
South Dakota 72.8 (65.2, 80.4) 1,363
Kentucky 72.9 (68.8, 77.0) 723
Mississippi 73.1 (69.2, 77.0) 739
Texas 73.8 (70.7, 76.8) 2,111
Kansas 74.5 (72.2, 76.8) 1,970
Utah 74.6 (72.0, 77.2) 1,300
Montana 74.7 (71.9, 77.4) 1,209
Arizona 74.9 (72.2, 77.5) 1,692
Arkansas 75.0 (72.1, 77.8) 942
Missouri 75.0 (72.1, 77.9) 1,275
Tennessee 75.1 (71.8, 78.5) 897
Washington 75.4 (73.9, 76.9) 4,577
Ohio 75.6 (73.6, 77.6) 2,991
Vermont 75.6 (73.1, 78.1) 1,769
Pennsylvania 75.7 (71.8, 79.6) 827
West Virginia 76.1 (73.4, 78.9) 1,071
Georgia 76.3 (73.6, 79.0) 1,704
New Jersey 76.3 (73.2, 79.4) 1,229
Alabama 76.4 (73.2, 79.6) 1,007
California 76.5 (73.5, 79.5) 1,472
Nebraska 76.8 (74.2, 79.4) 1,307
District of Columbia 77.4 (73.0, 81.9) 512
Virginia 77.4 (75.0, 79.7) 2,092
Michigan 77.7 (75.6, 79.8) 1,975
Florida 78.0 (75.0, 81.0) 2,423
Oregon 78.0 (75.1, 81.0) 996
Indiana 78.1 (76.2, 80.1) 1,865
Hawaii 78.5 (75.7, 81.3) 1,415
North Carolina 79.1 (75.2, 82.9) 800
New York 79.2 (77.1, 81.4) 3,134
Iowa 79.6 (77.2, 82.0) 1,577
Minnesota 79.6 (77.8, 81.4) 3,078
Delaware 79.7 (76.6, 82.8) 822
South Carolina 79.7 (77.7, 81.6) 1,975
North Dakota 80.2 (77.3, 83.2) 722
New Hampshire 80.8 (78.5, 83.1) 1,510
Maine 81.6 (79.7, 83.5) 2,427
Connecticut 81.7 (79.2, 84.1) 1,779
Louisiana 82.0 (79.5, 84.6) 1,109
Wisconsin 82.1 (80.2, 84.0) 2,247
Maryland 83.2 (81.4, 84.9) 3,210
Puerto Rico 84.2 (81.8, 86.5) 1,213
Massachusetts 84.9 (82.9, 87.0) 1,999
Rhode Island 86.0 (83.8, 88.2) 1,280
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/19/2024 12:25 am.

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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