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)

Ever Smoked 100 Cigarettes
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 18+

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 39.2 N/A
Puerto Rico 23.8 (22.2, 25.3) 1,312
Utah 24.3 (23.2, 25.5) 2,241
District of Columbia 27.7 (25.6, 29.8) 958
California 31.3 (29.9, 32.6) 3,338
Maryland 31.3 (30.1, 32.4) 5,507
Massachusetts 33.6 (32.3, 34.8) 3,595
Texas 33.6 (32.1, 35.1) 4,855
New Jersey 33.9 (32.4, 35.5) 2,497
Georgia 34.4 (32.9, 35.9) 3,198
New York 34.7 (33.7, 35.8) 6,157
Virginia 35.2 (33.9, 36.6) 3,716
Hawaii 35.7 (34.2, 37.2) 2,824
Washington 35.9 (35.1, 36.7) 9,282
Illinois 36.1 (34.1, 38.1) 1,375
Connecticut 36.6 (35.0, 38.1) 3,408
Colorado 37.0 (35.7, 38.2) 3,316
Nebraska 37.0 (35.4, 38.5) 2,704
South Dakota 37.2 (34.0, 40.4) 3,073
Delaware 37.7 (35.6, 39.9) 1,495
Idaho 37.8 (36.3, 39.2) 2,318
Oregon 37.8 (36.2, 39.4) 2,219
Minnesota 38.5 (37.5, 39.6) 6,129
Florida 38.6 (36.9, 40.3) 5,456
Iowa 39.0 (37.7, 40.3) 3,441
Arizona 39.1 (37.5, 40.8) 3,925
Kansas 39.1 (37.8, 40.4) 4,293
Nevada 39.2 (36.6, 41.8) 1,252
Alabama 39.3 (37.2, 41.3) 1,715
North Carolina 39.5 (37.5, 41.5) 1,711
Rhode Island 39.5 (37.7, 41.4) 2,327
New Hampshire 39.9 (38.1, 41.7) 2,647
Mississippi 40.1 (38.2, 42.1) 1,522
North Dakota 40.2 (38.4, 42.1) 1,606
Wisconsin 40.3 (39.0, 41.6) 4,448
Pennsylvania 40.5 (38.3, 42.7) 1,722
New Mexico 41.1 (39.0, 43.1) 1,961
Vermont 41.6 (40.1, 43.2) 3,437
Indiana 41.9 (40.6, 43.1) 4,056
South Carolina 41.9 (40.4, 43.3) 3,808
Louisiana 42.0 (40.2, 43.8) 2,217
Michigan 42.1 (40.8, 43.4) 3,880
Kentucky 42.3 (40.1, 44.5) 1,695
Wyoming 42.4 (40.4, 44.4) 1,636
Ohio 42.7 (41.6, 43.9) 6,649
Oklahoma 42.9 (41.3, 44.5) 2,344
Alaska 43.1 (41.3, 44.9) 2,471
Missouri 43.2 (41.7, 44.8) 3,191
Maine 44.0 (42.6, 45.4) 4,648
Montana 44.1 (42.6, 45.6) 2,933
Tennessee 45.0 (43.1, 46.9) 2,244
Arkansas 45.9 (44.0, 47.8) 2,192
West Virginia 46.8 (45.0, 48.5) 2,218
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/28/2024 5:36 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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