Colorectal Cancer Screening from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) database shown in Percent Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Topic: Blood Stool Test; Breakout Category: Overall; Breakout: Overall; Question: Adults aged 45-75 who have had a blood stool test within the past year (variable calculated from one or more BRFSS questions); Response: Have never had a blood stool test Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

Corporate Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. 2025

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Data values represent estimated population prevalence rates of behaviors associated with screening for colorectal cancer. Sample size and low and high values of the confidence interval are also provided. Data are available at the national, state, and select MSA levels. Prevalence rates are presented by response to survey question, and, when available, by sociodemographic categories (gender, age group, race/ethnicity, level of educational attainment, and household income). The data are based on results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted by health departments of the 50 United States, Washington, DC, and three U.S. territories (Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico). The BRFSS is a continuous, multi-mode (mail, landline phone, and cell phone) surveillance system that collects information from over 400,000 noninstitutionalized adults (ages 18 and over) per year about modifiable risk factors for chronic diseases and other leading causes of death, clinical preventive practices, and health care access and use. The states use a standardized core questionnaire, optional modules, and state-added questions. Note that since the survey questions prepared by CDC vary each year, and each state then has the option to customize the questionnaire, not all indicators will be available for each state for each year. The survey protocol defines an eligible household as a housing unit that has a separate entrance, where occupants eat separately from other persons on the property, and that is occupied by its members as their principal or secondary place of residence. The following are non-eligible households: vacation homes not occupied by household members for more than 30 days per year, group homes, institutions, and (in the landline sample) households in states other than the one conducting the particular BRFSS questionnaire. Since 2011, adult students living in college have been included as eligible respondents. Eligible household members include all related adults (aged 18 years or older), unrelated adults, boarders/roomers, and domestic workers who consider the household their home, even though they may not be home at the time of the call. Persons living in college housing are treated as single adult households. Household members do not include adult family members who are currently living elsewhere. More detail on sampling design and methodology can be found in the technical documentation. Note that sample size for the US total represents the number of states and territories included, not a count of persons.

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USA—Guam—Wyoming—Mississippi—South Dakota—Utah—Massachusetts—Idaho—Maine—Vermont—North Dakota—Kentucky—Delaware—Minnesota—Pennsylvania—Nebraska—North Carolina—Missouri—New Jersey—New Hampshire—Iowa—Rhode Island—Wisconsin—Illinois—New York—Connecticut—Virginia West—Virginia—Ohio—Tennessee—Kansas—Oklahoma—Arizona—South Carolina—Alaska—Indiana—Montana—Arkansas—Texas—Alabama—Colorado—Georgia—Michigan—New Mexico—Maryland—Virgin Islands—Oregon—Hawaii—Louisiana—Nevada—Florida—Washington—Washington DC—California—Puerto Rico

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9781071842270 Sage Data Foundations

Type of File/Data

Statistical data with bibliographic citation and abstract.

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