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)

Home-Based Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) in Past Two Years
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 50+

Sorted by Percent
State
 sort alphabetically by name ascending
Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
 sort by percent ascending
Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 9.0 N/A
Puerto Rico 36.0 (33.7, 38.3) 1,104
California 18.6 (16.9, 20.2) 959
District of Columbia 15.3 (12.9, 17.7) 238
Washington 14.2 (13.5, 15.0) 2,096
Hawaii 13.7 (12.3, 15.1) 713
Florida 13.6 (12.0, 15.3) 1,192
New Mexico 13.4 (11.7, 15.1) 348
Louisiana 12.6 (11.1, 14.1) 386
Oregon 12.4 (10.8, 14.1) 377
Nevada 12.3 (10.0, 14.6) 212
Georgia 11.8 (10.5, 13.1) 618
Maryland 11.5 (10.4, 12.6) 941
Texas 11.5 (10.0, 13.0) 879
Alabama 11.4 (9.5, 13.3) 310
Arkansas 10.6 (9.2, 11.9) 334
Michigan 10.2 (9.3, 11.2) 614
Oklahoma 10.2 (9.0, 11.4) 315
Colorado 10.1 (8.9, 11.3) 463
Montana 9.9 (8.7, 11.0) 416
Arizona 9.8 (8.7, 11.0) 741
South Carolina 9.8 (8.8, 10.9) 588
West Virginia 9.7 (8.5, 10.8) 338
Indiana 9.4 (8.5, 10.3) 590
Virginia 9.4 (8.2, 10.6) 522
Pennsylvania 9.3 (7.5, 11.1) 224
New Jersey 9.1 (7.8, 10.4) 347
Tennessee 9.0 (7.7, 10.3) 274
Alaska 8.7 (7.4, 10.0) 303
Ohio 8.7 (7.9, 9.6) 820
New York 8.6 (7.8, 9.4) 869
Illinois 8.4 (6.9, 9.9) 181
Kentucky 8.4 (6.7, 10.1) 178
Minnesota 8.3 (7.5, 9.0) 731
Missouri 8.3 (7.1, 9.5) 331
Kansas 8.2 (7.3, 9.1) 532
North Carolina 8.2 (6.7, 9.7) 181
Rhode Island 8.1 (6.9, 9.3) 286
Delaware 8.0 (6.7, 9.3) 208
Maine 7.9 (7.0, 8.7) 621
Connecticut 7.8 (6.5, 9.2) 405
Wisconsin 7.8 (6.9, 8.6) 551
New Hampshire 7.7 (6.7, 8.7) 360
Iowa 7.2 (6.3, 8.1) 351
Vermont 7.2 (6.3, 8.1) 412
Massachusetts 7.1 (6.1, 8.0) 380
Idaho 7.0 (6.0, 8.0) 238
South Dakota 6.5 (4.6, 8.4) 257
Utah 6.5 (5.5, 7.5) 303
Nebraska 6.4 (5.5, 7.2) 315
North Dakota 6.1 (5.0, 7.1) 150
Mississippi 5.8 (4.4, 7.2) 116
Wyoming 4.8 (3.9, 5.7) 136
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/19/2024 7:20 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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