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    • CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2025

    The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury. For many states, the BRFSS is the only available source of timely, accurate data on health-related behaviors.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier 15ece528-43c1-45c3-ba01-0b9a4f5a31f0
    Data First Published 2012-05-30
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Category Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:20
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 7efbe7e0-e697-499d-9ca8-7eec6f436c4e
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-behavioral-risk-factor-surveillance-system-brfss
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:072
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 38190547c29db331a4dc87ee6d6988e3f9f3a150ec3a7ed97f364a7117cd0023
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1984-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2009-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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