Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) -- Adult Asthma Questions
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a health-related telephone survey that collects state data (as well as the District of Columbia and some US territories) about primarily adult US residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, health-care access, and use of preventive services. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year. Survey questions regarding asthma used to determine lifetime and current asthma.
(CDC/NCEH/DEHSP/AAQB uses these adult asthma data [accessed via CDC's BRFSS colleagues] as is [no questions added] to obtain state-level estimates of adult asthma prevalence
Complete Metadata
| @type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessRights | public |
| contactPoint |
[ { "fn": "CDC NCCDPHP Division of Population Health", "@type": "Kind", "hasEmail": "mailto:BRFSS2@cdc.gov" } ] |
| description | The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a health-related telephone survey that collects state data (as well as the District of Columbia and some US territories) about primarily adult US residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, health-care access, and use of preventive services. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year. Survey questions regarding asthma used to determine lifetime and current asthma. (CDC/NCEH/DEHSP/AAQB uses these adult asthma data [accessed via CDC's BRFSS colleagues] as is [no questions added] to obtain state-level estimates of adult asthma prevalence |
| identifier | https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/brfss/2021/brfssdata.html |
| inventoried | 2026-09-27 |
| publisher |
{ "name": "National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), Asthma and Air Quality Branch (AAQB)", "@type": "Organization", "subOrganizationOf": [ { "name": "Division of Population Health; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)", "@type": "Organization", "subOrganizationOf": [ { "name": "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services", "@type": "Organization" } ] } ] } |
| title | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) -- Adult Asthma Questions |
