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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, 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 2021 BRFSS Data)

Obese (BMI >= 30)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 20+
Healthy People 2030 Objective Number: n/a

Sorted by Percent
State
sort alphabetically by name ascending 		Met Objective?1
 Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
sort by percent descending 		Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States n/a1 34.6 N/A
District of Columbia n/a1 25.00 (22.80, 27.20) 664
Hawaii n/a1 25.20 (23.79, 26.61) 1,752
Colorado n/a1 25.77 (24.69, 26.85) 2,334
Massachusetts n/a1 27.97 (26.50, 29.44) 1,807
California n/a1 28.07 (26.58, 29.56) 1,693
New Jersey n/a1 28.62 (27.21, 30.03) 1,899
Washington n/a1 29.28 (28.18, 30.38) 3,420
New York n/a1 29.62 (28.74, 30.50) 10,780
Vermont n/a1 29.66 (27.97, 31.35) 1,705
Rhode Island n/a1 30.74 (29.05, 32.43) 1,438
Connecticut n/a1 30.94 (29.41, 32.47) 2,095
Oregon n/a1 30.98 (29.43, 32.53) 1,494
New Hampshire n/a1 31.25 (29.54, 32.96) 1,685
Arizona n/a1 31.76 (30.43, 33.09) 2,977
Nevada n/a1 31.83 (29.09, 34.57) 740
Utah n/a1 31.93 (30.71, 33.15) 2,955
Maine n/a1 32.23 (30.94, 33.52) 3,379
Montana n/a1 32.25 (30.70, 33.80) 1,833
Idaho n/a1 32.28 (30.83, 33.73) 1,975
Wyoming n/a1 32.75 (30.61, 34.89) 1,188
Minnesota n/a1 33.24 (32.30, 34.18) 4,667
Alaska n/a1 33.87 (31.85, 35.89) 1,664
Pennsylvania n/a1 34.13 (32.50, 35.76) 1,900
Delaware n/a1 34.57 (32.37, 36.77) 1,156
Georgia n/a1 34.60 (32.89, 36.31) 2,429
Wisconsin n/a1 34.60 (32.76, 36.44) 1,898
Michigan n/a1 34.84 (33.53, 36.15) 2,828
Maryland n/a1 34.91 (33.71, 36.11) 4,641
Virginia n/a1 34.93 (33.54, 36.32) 2,976
Illinois n/a1 34.99 (32.60, 37.38) 902
New Mexico n/a1 35.29 (33.57, 37.01) 1,953
Tennessee n/a1 35.50 (33.62, 37.38) 1,528
North Dakota n/a1 36.05 (34.34, 37.76) 1,935
Puerto Rico n/a1 36.50 (34.38, 38.62) 1,393
South Carolina n/a1 36.65 (35.18, 38.12) 3,073
Texas n/a1 36.70 (34.96, 38.44) 3,374
Kansas n/a1 36.84 (35.90, 37.78) 5,790
Nebraska n/a1 36.87 (35.71, 38.03) 5,012
Indiana n/a1 36.96 (35.73, 38.19) 3,156
North Carolina n/a1 36.97 (35.15, 38.79) 1,581
Iowa n/a1 37.46 (36.11, 38.81) 3,104
Missouri n/a1 37.71 (36.30, 39.12) 4,153
Ohio n/a1 38.70 (37.48, 39.92) 5,049
South Dakota n/a1 39.19 (36.25, 42.13) 2,430
Louisiana n/a1 39.42 (37.48, 41.36) 1,693
Arkansas n/a1 39.52 (37.42, 41.62) 1,697
Oklahoma n/a1 39.72 (37.96, 41.48) 1,896
Mississippi n/a1 40.06 (38.06, 42.06) 1,626
Alabama n/a1 40.39 (38.43, 42.35) 1,640
Kentucky n/a1 40.82 (38.94, 42.70) 1,941
West Virginia n/a1 41.28 (39.77, 42.79) 2,508
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/09/2023 9:46 am.

1 n/a - There is not a specific Healthy People 2020 Objective for this data item.
2 2021 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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