SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Arthritis

Are you now limited in any way in any of your usual activities because of arthritis or joint symptoms?*

Back to Arthritis. Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 128932 41,140 29.1 28.7-29.6 87,792 70.9 70.4-71.3
Alabama 2,016 658 30.7 28.4-33.0 1,358 69.3 67.0-71.6
Alaska 1,449 398 25.4 22.5-28.5 1,051 74.6 71.5-77.5
Arizona 1,611 533 29.9 26.8-33.2 1,078 70.1 66.8-73.2
Arkansas 2,176 780 34.8 32.6-37.2 1,396 65.2 62.8-67.4
California 2,329 640 26.0 24.0-28.2 1,689 74.0 71.8-76.0
Colorado 1,982 517 24.7 22.6-26.8 1,465 75.3 73.2-77.4
Connecticut 2,317 652 27.7 25.7-29.8 1,665 72.3 70.2-74.3
Delaware 1,939 593 30.5 27.9-33.3 1,346 69.5 66.7-72.1
District of Columbia 802 204 25.3 21.7-29.3 598 74.7 70.7-78.3
Florida 2,359 880 34.1 31.2-37.2 1,479 65.9 62.8-68.8
Georgia 3,776 1,310 31.0 29.0-33.0 2,466 69.0 67.0-71.0
Hawaii 2,211 855 38.5 36.0-41.1 1,356 61.5 58.9-64.0
Idaho 2,515 789 29.9 27.8-32.1 1,726 70.1 67.9-72.2
Illinois 1,337 317 23.6 20.6-26.9 1,020 76.4 73.1-79.4
Indiana 2,729 812 27.5 25.7-29.4 1,917 72.5 70.6-74.3
Iowa 2,415 660 25.3 23.4-27.4 1,755 74.7 72.6-76.6
Kansas 1,962 574 27.6 25.5-29.9 1,388 72.4 70.1-74.5
Kentucky 4,259 1,963 42.1 39.8-44.3 2,296 57.9 55.7-60.2
Louisiana 2,291 757 31.7 29.5-33.9 1,534 68.3 66.1-70.5
Maine 1,169 402 31.9 29.0-34.8 767 68.1 65.2-71.0
Maryland 2,030 588 27.5 25.2-30.0 1,442 72.5 70.0-74.8
Massachusetts 3,308 991 26.8 25.0-28.7 2,317 73.2 71.3-75.0
Michigan 1,957 591 27.3 25.2-29.6 1,366 72.7 70.4-74.8
Minnesota 1,922 638 32.0 29.7-34.3 1,284 68.0 65.7-70.3
Mississippi 2,356 900 36.3 34.1-38.6 1,456 63.7 61.4-65.9
Missouri 2,177 720 31.6 29.0-34.4 1,457 68.4 65.6-71.0
Montana 2,046 623 28.3 25.8-30.9 1,423 71.7 69.1-74.2
Nebraska 2,437 735 29.1 27.1-31.2 1,702 70.9 68.8-72.9
Nevada 1,415 408 25.6 22.5-29.0 1,007 74.4 71.0-77.5
New Hampshire 2,358 698 29.3 27.2-31.5 1,660 70.7 68.5-72.8
New Jersey 4,905 1,356 27.3 25.8-28.8 3,549 72.7 71.2-74.2
New Mexico 2,973 909 28.1 26.3-30.1 2,064 71.9 69.9-73.7
New York 2,581 787 29.4 27.3-31.5 1,794 70.6 68.5-72.7
North Carolina 4,951 1,723 32.9 30.8-35.0 3,228 67.1 65.0-69.2
North Dakota 1,463 397 24.9 22.6-27.4 1,066 75.1 72.6-77.4
Ohio 1,894 549 27.3 24.9-29.8 1,345 72.7 70.2-75.1
Oklahoma 3,893 1,400 33.6 32.0-35.3 2,493 66.4 64.7-68.0
Oregon 2,053 665 30.7 28.5-33.0 1,388 69.3 67.0-71.5
Pennsylvania 1,834 474 25.0 22.8-27.2 1,360 75.0 72.8-77.2
Rhode Island 1,834 515 26.4 24.1-28.8 1,319 73.6 71.2-75.9
South Carolina 2,893 885 30.2 28.3-32.3 2,008 69.8 67.7-71.7
South Dakota 2,733 836 28.1 26.2-30.1 1,897 71.9 69.9-73.8
Tennessee 1,450 489 30.9 28.3-33.7 961 69.1 66.3-71.7
Texas 2,645 801 28.2 26.3-30.1 1,844 71.8 69.9-73.7
Utah 1,852 539 27.8 25.2-30.6 1,313 72.2 69.4-74.8
Vermont 2,042 624 29.8 27.6-32.2 1,418 70.2 67.8-72.4
Virginia 2,556 770 28.3 26.0-30.7 1,786 71.7 69.3-74.0
Washington 9,765 3,298 31.7 30.5-32.8 6,467 68.3 67.2-69.5
West Virginia 2,011 758 36.1 33.8-38.4 1,253 63.9 61.6-66.2
Wisconsin 1,937 555 26.2 23.9-28.5 1,382 73.8 71.5-76.1
Wyoming 2,074 546 24.3 22.3-26.4 1,528 75.7 73.6-77.7
Guam 239 68 28.5 22.6-35.2 171 71.5 64.8-77.4
Puerto Rico 1,965 837 38.9 36.1-41.7 1,128 61.1 58.3-63.9
Virgin Islands 739 173 25.3 21.4-29.6 566 74.7 70.4-78.6

Back to Arthritis.

+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

*This question was asked of respondents 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16JUN04.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook