BRFSS 2002- Nationwide Data: (Earlier you said there were/was child/ren age 17 or younger living in your household. How many of these children have ever been diagnosed with asthma?)

2002 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Childhood Asthma

Earlier you said there were/was child/ren age 17 or younger living in your household. How many of these children have ever been diagnosed with asthma?

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	Total Respond.#	Yes			No
	Total Respond.#	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
All Participants	43,612	7,629	17.7	17.0-18.5	35,983	82.3	81.5-83.0

Alabama	1,045	190	17.4	14.8-20.2	855	82.6	79.8-85.2
Alaska	1,184	170	14.6	12.0-17.6	1,014	85.4	82.4-88.0
California	1,632	338	20.4	18.2-22.9	1,294	79.6	77.1-81.8
Delaware	1,406	276	17.8	15.3-20.7	1,130	82.2	79.3-84.7
Hawaii	2,322	471	18.5	16.6-20.5	1,851	81.5	79.5-83.4
Illinois	1,036	154	13.9	11.6-16.4	882	86.1	83.6-88.4
Indiana	2,172	366	15.8	14.1-17.6	1,806	84.2	82.4-85.9
Iowa	1,187	142	12.0	9.9-14.4	1,045	88.0	85.6-90.1
Louisiana	1,889	334	17.6	15.6-19.9	1,555	82.4	80.1-84.4
Massachusetts	2,277	478	19.9	18.0-22.0	1,799	80.1	78.0-82.0
Michigan	2,163	425	20.1	18.1-22.3	1,738	79.9	77.7-81.9
Mississippi	1,480	262	15.5	13.5-17.7	1,218	84.5	82.3-86.5
New Hampshire	1,823	328	17.7	15.7-19.8	1,495	82.3	80.2-84.3
New Jersey	2,107	358	17.4	14.3-20.9	1,749	82.6	79.1-85.7
North Carolina	2,328	443	18.9	16.6-21.5	1,885	81.1	78.5-83.4
North Dakota	978	130	12.7	10.6-15.0	848	87.3	85.0-89.4
Ohio	1,390	224	15.2	13.1-17.5	1,166	84.8	82.5-86.9
Oklahoma	2,211	384	16.2	14.5-18.0	1,827	83.8	82.0-85.5
Oregon	1,057	158	14.0	11.9-16.5	899	86.0	83.5-88.1
Rhode Island	1,304	261	18.8	16.5-21.3	1,043	81.2	78.7-83.5
South Carolina	1,536	265	17.2	14.8-19.9	1,271	82.8	80.1-85.2
South Dakota	1,588	177	11.2	9.5-13.2	1,411	88.8	86.8-90.5
Texas	2,435	479	17.4	15.8-19.1	1,956	82.6	80.9-84.2
Vermont	1,445	243	15.8	13.9-18.0	1,202	84.2	82.0-86.1
Wisconsin	1,509	232	13.3	11.5-15.4	1,277	86.7	84.6-88.5
Wyoming	1,191	181	15.4	13.2-17.9	1,010	84.6	82.1-86.8
Virgin Islands	917	160	15.5	12.8-18.6	757	84.5	81.4-87.2

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.

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