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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, 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 FOBT in the past two years or ever had a colorectal endoscopy
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 79.3 N/A
Rhode Island 84.4 (82.6, 86.1) 3,171
Connecticut 83.7 (82.1, 85.4) 4,728
New Hampshire 83.6 (82.1, 85.1) 4,314
District of Columbia 83.2 (80.5, 85.8) 1,420
Massachusetts 83.1 (81.7, 84.6) 4,783
North Carolina 83.0 (80.9, 85.1) 1,930
Vermont 83.0 (81.4, 84.6) 4,813
Maine 82.9 (81.6, 84.1) 6,197
Maryland 82.7 (81.5, 84.0) 8,322
Michigan 82.6 (81.4, 83.9) 5,365
Wisconsin 82.5 (81.2, 83.7) 5,978
South Carolina 82.4 (81.1, 83.7) 5,481
Delaware 82.1 (80.0, 84.2) 2,016
Minnesota 82.1 (81.0, 83.2) 7,970
Virginia 81.7 (80.3, 83.2) 5,498
Washington 81.5 (80.6, 82.4) 13,021
Indiana 80.8 (79.5, 82.0) 4,996
Utah 80.8 (79.3, 82.3) 3,857
Louisiana 80.4 (78.6, 82.3) 2,791
Alabama 80.2 (78.2, 82.2) 2,476
Colorado 80.2 (78.7, 81.6) 3,781
Florida 80.1 (78.1, 82.1) 7,235
Hawaii 79.6 (77.7, 81.5) 3,742
Iowa 79.4 (77.9, 80.8) 4,175
Ohio 79.4 (78.2, 80.6) 7,868
New York 79.3 (77.9, 80.6) 8,081
Oregon 79.1 (77.2, 81.0) 2,477
Kansas 79.0 (77.6, 80.4) 5,563
West Virginia 78.7 (77.0, 80.5) 2,644
New Jersey 78.6 (76.6, 80.6) 3,350
Pennsylvania 78.5 (75.9, 81.1) 1,943
North Dakota 78.3 (76.4, 80.2) 2,067
Illinois 78.2 (75.9, 80.5) 1,494
Georgia 78.0 (76.2, 79.8) 4,551
Missouri 78.0 (76.3, 79.8) 3,387
Montana 77.8 (76.2, 79.4) 3,560
Tennessee 77.8 (75.7, 80.0) 2,422
South Dakota 77.3 (73.4, 81.2) 3,568
Idaho 77.2 (75.5, 78.9) 2,709
Kentucky 76.8 (74.2, 79.4) 1,804
Arkansas 76.7 (74.9, 78.6) 2,608
Mississippi 76.5 (74.1, 78.9) 1,670
Arizona 76.1 (74.3, 77.9) 5,047
Alaska 76.0 (73.8, 78.2) 2,591
New Mexico 75.9 (73.7, 78.0) 2,401
Nebraska 75.8 (74.2, 77.5) 3,590
Puerto Rico 74.8 (72.7, 76.9) 2,374
Oklahoma 74.6 (72.8, 76.5) 2,485
California 74.5 (72.6, 76.4) 3,951
Nevada 74.2 (71.2, 77.3) 1,461
Texas 74.1 (72.2, 76.0) 5,752
Wyoming 73.3 (71.3, 75.2) 2,065
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/19/2024 3:57 pm.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.

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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