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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

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  Total
Respond.#		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 265994 32,035 12.0 11.7-12.2 233959 88.0 87.8-88.3
Alabama 3,339 392 11.6 10.3-13.0 2,947 88.4 87.0-89.7
Alaska 2,658 337 13.3 11.6-15.2 2,321 86.7 84.8-88.4
Arizona 3,233 438 12.5 10.9-14.2 2,795 87.5 85.8-89.1
Arkansas 4,199 484 11.3 10.3-12.5 3,715 88.7 87.5-89.7
California 4,475 615 13.4 12.2-14.6 3,860 86.6 85.4-87.8
Colorado 4,064 509 12.4 11.3-13.7 3,555 87.6 86.3-88.7
Connecticut 5,310 664 12.2 11.2-13.2 4,646 87.8 86.8-88.8
Delaware 4,038 480 11.7 10.5-13.1 3,558 88.3 86.9-89.5
District of Columbia 2,038 245 12.7 11.0-14.7 1,793 87.3 85.3-89.0
Florida 5,034 564 10.1 8.9-11.4 4,470 89.9 88.6-91.1
Georgia 7,633 895 11.8 10.7-13.0 6,738 88.2 87.0-89.3
Hawaii 5,992 607 10.2 9.3-11.2 5,385 89.8 88.8-90.7
Idaho 4,992 609 11.7 10.6-12.8 4,383 88.3 87.2-89.4
Illinois 5,264 617 10.9 9.8-12.0 4,647 89.1 88.0-90.2
Indiana 5,474 670 12.0 11.1-13.0 4,804 88.0 87.0-88.9
Iowa 4,999 479 10.3 9.2-11.4 4,520 89.7 88.6-90.8
Kansas 4,613 506 11.5 10.5-12.7 4,107 88.5 87.3-89.5
Kentucky 7,622 1,039 12.6 11.5-13.7 6,583 87.4 86.3-88.5
Louisiana 5,072 514 10.2 9.3-11.2 4,558 89.8 88.8-90.7
Maine 2,384 312 13.4 11.9-15.1 2,072 86.6 84.9-88.1
Maryland 4,433 528 12.3 11.1-13.7 3,905 87.7 86.3-88.9
Massachusetts 7,569 1,079 14.4 13.4-15.5 6,490 85.6 84.5-86.6
Michigan 3,546 470 13.6 12.3-15.0 3,076 86.4 85.0-87.7
Minnesota 3,874 388 10.5 9.4-11.8 3,486 89.5 88.2-90.6
Mississippi 4,416 480 10.9 9.8-12.1 3,936 89.1 87.9-90.2
Missouri 4,250 466 11.9 10.6-13.3 3,784 88.1 86.7-89.4
Montana 4,018 433 11.1 9.8-12.4 3,585 88.9 87.6-90.2
Nebraska 4,970 503 10.3 9.4-11.4 4,467 89.7 88.6-90.6
Nevada 2,969 337 11.4 9.9-13.1 2,632 88.6 86.9-90.1
New Hampshire 5,036 640 12.9 11.8-14.0 4,396 87.1 86.0-88.2
New Jersey 11,293 1,243 10.9 10.2-11.6 10,050 89.1 88.4-89.8
New Mexico 5,490 601 10.5 9.5-11.5 4,889 89.5 88.5-90.5
New York 5,535 660 11.7 10.7-12.7 4,875 88.3 87.3-89.3
North Carolina 9,446 1,081 11.3 10.3-12.4 8,365 88.7 87.6-89.7
North Dakota 3,021 301 10.1 8.9-11.3 2,720 89.9 88.7-91.1
Ohio 3,821 427 10.8 9.6-12.2 3,394 89.2 87.8-90.4
Oklahoma 7,624 862 11.8 10.9-12.7 6,762 88.2 87.3-89.1
Oregon 4,010 601 14.7 13.5-16.0 3,409 85.3 84.0-86.5
Pennsylvania 3,665 441 11.9 10.8-13.2 3,224 88.1 86.8-89.2
Rhode Island 4,042 593 14.4 13.1-15.8 3,449 85.6 84.2-86.9
South Carolina 5,921 627 10.1 9.3-11.1 5,294 89.9 88.9-90.7
South Dakota 5,257 524 10.7 9.6-11.8 4,733 89.3 88.2-90.4
Tennessee 2,586 297 11.8 10.3-13.5 2,289 88.2 86.5-89.7
Texas 6,022 696 11.3 10.3-12.3 5,326 88.7 87.7-89.7
Utah 4,048 481 11.3 10.0-12.7 3,567 88.7 87.3-90.0
Vermont 4,243 503 12.2 11.0-13.4 3,740 87.8 86.6-89.0
Virginia 5,435 684 12.1 11.0-13.4 4,751 87.9 86.6-89.0
Washington 18,605 2,654 13.8 13.2-14.5 15,951 86.2 85.5-86.8
West Virginia 3,346 411 11.8 10.6-13.1 2,935 88.2 86.9-89.4
Wisconsin 4,049 469 11.0 9.8-12.3 3,580 89.0 87.7-90.2
Wyoming 3,999 457 11.2 10.2-12.4 3,542 88.8 87.6-89.8
Guam 805 96 10.3 8.3-12.8 709 89.7 87.2-91.7
Puerto Rico 4,166 855 20.7 19.0-22.4 3,311 79.3 77.6-81.0
Virgin Islands 2,051 171 9.2 7.5-11.3 1,880 90.8 88.7-92.5

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

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