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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Arthritis

In this next question we are referring to work for pay.Do arthritis or joint symptoms now affect whether you work, the type of work you do or the amount of work you do?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 93,127 24,561 25.3 24.8-25.9 68,566 74.7 74.1-75.2
Alabama 1,473 448 28.8 26.2-31.6 1,025 71.2 68.4-73.8
Alaska 1,237 276 21.2 18.2-24.4 961 78.8 75.6-81.8
Arizona 1,054 295 23.8 20.4-27.6 759 76.2 72.4-79.6
Arkansas 1,535 462 30.2 27.6-32.9 1,073 69.8 67.1-72.4
California 1,709 383 23.0 20.7-25.5 1,326 77.0 74.5-79.3
Colorado 1,518 304 19.4 17.3-21.7 1,214 80.6 78.3-82.7
Connecticut 1,599 323 19.9 17.7-22.3 1,276 80.1 77.7-82.3
Delaware 3,210 465 13.6 12.1-15.3 2,745 86.4 84.7-87.9
District of Columbia 586 100 20.3 16.1-25.2 486 79.7 74.8-83.9
Florida 1,457 476 29.0 25.5-32.8 981 71.0 67.2-74.5
Georgia 2,766 827 27.8 25.6-30.2 1,939 72.2 69.8-74.4
Hawaii 1,371 311 22.2 19.5-25.2 1,060 77.8 74.8-80.5
Idaho 1,823 492 26.3 23.9-28.8 1,331 73.7 71.2-76.1
Illinois 1,005 198 20.0 16.8-23.7 807 80.0 76.3-83.2
Indiana 1,983 573 27.5 25.4-29.8 1,410 72.5 70.2-74.6
Iowa 1,548 352 20.6 18.4-22.9 1,196 79.4 77.1-81.6
Kansas 1,380 294 19.4 17.2-21.7 1,086 80.6 78.3-82.8
Kentucky 2,930 1,403 43.7 41.0-46.5 1,527 56.3 53.5-59.0
Louisiana 1,636 518 30.9 28.4-33.6 1,118 69.1 66.4-71.6
Maine 856 256 27.3 24.1-30.7 600 72.7 69.3-75.9
Maryland 1,540 325 22.0 19.4-24.8 1,215 78.0 75.2-80.6
Massachusetts 2,412 566 21.9 19.9-24.1 1,846 78.1 75.9-80.1
Michigan 1,366 349 24.3 21.8-27.0 1,017 75.7 73.0-78.2
Minnesota 1,387 379 26.8 24.3-29.6 1,008 73.2 70.4-75.7
Mississippi 1,644 627 35.2 32.6-38.0 1,017 64.8 62.0-67.4
Missouri 1,441 459 31.3 28.0-34.8 982 68.7 65.2-72.0
Montana 1,461 370 23.1 20.4-26.1 1,091 76.9 73.9-79.6
Nebraska 1,592 397 23.9 21.7-26.3 1,195 76.1 73.7-78.3
Nevada 1,035 220 20.7 17.5-24.4 815 79.3 75.6-82.5
New Hampshire 1,752 416 23.3 21.0-25.7 1,336 76.7 74.3-79.0
New Jersey 3,357 701 22.2 20.5-24.0 2,656 77.8 76.0-79.5
New Mexico 2,123 525 22.4 20.4-24.5 1,598 77.6 75.5-79.6
New York 1,813 476 27.6 25.1-30.2 1,337 72.4 69.8-74.9
North Carolina 3,430 1,060 28.5 26.2-31.0 2,370 71.5 69.0-73.8
North Dakota 996 242 22.5 19.7-25.5 754 77.5 74.5-80.3
Ohio 1,401 340 23.6 20.9-26.5 1,061 76.4 73.5-79.1
Oklahoma 2,601 878 32.8 30.7-34.9 1,723 67.2 65.1-69.3
Oregon 1,460 369 24.1 21.7-26.6 1,091 75.9 73.4-78.3
Pennsylvania 1,252 297 22.6 20.2-25.3 955 77.4 74.7-79.8
Rhode Island 1,304 320 24.0 21.3-26.9 984 76.0 73.1-78.7
South Carolina 2,083 605 29.4 27.0-31.8 1,478 70.6 68.2-73.0
South Dakota 1,744 445 24.2 22.0-26.7 1,299 75.8 73.3-78.0
Tennessee 1,094 331 29.1 26.1-32.3 763 70.9 67.7-73.9
Texas 1,962 518 25.6 23.4-27.9 1,444 74.4 72.1-76.6
Utah 1,376 304 22.6 19.6-25.8 1,072 77.4 74.2-80.4
Vermont 1,450 349 23.8 21.3-26.3 1,101 76.2 73.7-78.7
Virginia 1,909 509 24.4 21.9-27.0 1,400 75.6 73.0-78.1
Washington 7,066 1,838 23.9 22.7-25.2 5,228 76.1 74.8-77.3
West Virginia 1,426 454 31.2 28.6-34.0 972 68.8 66.0-71.4
Wisconsin 1,404 313 20.3 17.7-23.1 1,091 79.7 76.9-82.3
Wyoming 1,509 353 22.5 20.2-24.9 1,156 77.5 75.1-79.8
Guam 203 60 29.8 23.1-37.5 143 70.2 62.5-76.9
Puerto Rico 1,270 266 20.3 17.6-23.2 1,004 79.7 76.8-82.4
Virgin Islands 588 144 26.3 21.9-31.3 444 73.7 68.7-78.1

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

*This question was asked of respondents (18-64 yrs.) who reported joint symptoms beginning 3 months ago, or being told by a doctor that they have arthritis

#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 and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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