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 40+

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 70.2 N/A
Wyoming 59.5 (56.7, 62.3) 1,068
New Mexico 62.0 (58.9, 65.0) 1,305
Idaho 62.1 (59.8, 64.5) 1,431
Alaska 62.5 (59.5, 65.5) 1,206
Nevada 62.7 (58.3, 67.0) 742
Oklahoma 64.2 (61.8, 66.6) 1,425
Utah 64.5 (62.4, 66.7) 2,034
Colorado 65.6 (63.2, 67.9) 2,023
Illinois 65.9 (62.5, 69.2) 905
Vermont 66.4 (64.1, 68.7) 2,399
Montana 66.9 (64.6, 69.2) 1,797
Washington 66.9 (65.6, 68.1) 6,754
Texas 67.0 (64.4, 69.5) 3,276
California 67.1 (64.5, 69.7) 2,155
Arizona 67.2 (64.8, 69.5) 2,586
Nebraska 67.6 (65.3, 69.9) 2,020
Kansas 68.0 (66.1, 69.9) 3,025
Kentucky 68.2 (64.9, 71.6) 1,063
Ohio 68.3 (66.5, 70.0) 4,392
Oregon 68.5 (66.0, 71.1) 1,450
Arkansas 68.7 (66.2, 71.2) 1,456
Missouri 69.1 (66.7, 71.5) 1,894
Tennessee 69.4 (66.6, 72.2) 1,343
Pennsylvania 70.0 (66.4, 73.7) 1,172
District of Columbia 70.2 (66.6, 73.7) 821
Mississippi 70.2 (67.1, 73.3) 1,105
West Virginia 70.3 (67.9, 72.6) 1,579
New Jersey 70.5 (67.8, 73.1) 1,865
Alabama 70.6 (67.6, 73.6) 1,544
Indiana 70.8 (69.0, 72.5) 2,840
Florida 71.1 (68.5, 73.7) 3,761
Georgia 71.2 (68.9, 73.5) 2,652
Iowa 71.4 (69.4, 73.5) 2,383
Virginia 71.6 (69.6, 73.5) 3,223
South Dakota 71.9 (66.6, 77.3) 2,120
North Dakota 72.0 (69.3, 74.7) 1,082
North Carolina 72.2 (69.0, 75.4) 1,171
Minnesota 72.5 (70.9, 74.0) 4,442
Hawaii 72.6 (70.1, 75.2) 2,222
Michigan 72.7 (70.9, 74.5) 2,957
South Carolina 72.9 (71.1, 74.8) 3,031
Wisconsin 73.0 (71.3, 74.8) 3,306
New York 73.1 (71.3, 74.9) 4,679
Maine 73.6 (71.8, 75.4) 3,504
Delaware 73.7 (70.8, 76.7) 1,187
New Hampshire 73.8 (71.6, 76.0) 2,215
Maryland 75.6 (73.9, 77.3) 4,789
Puerto Rico 75.6 (73.3, 77.9) 1,847
Connecticut 76.2 (73.9, 78.6) 2,585
Louisiana 77.0 (74.8, 79.2) 1,713
Massachusetts 77.0 (75.1, 79.0) 2,969
Rhode Island 78.4 (76.1, 80.7) 1,822
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/28/2024 9:20 pm.

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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