The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a national random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey. Data obtained from the BRFSS are representative of the total non-institutionalized population over 18 years of age living in households with a land line telephone. For the County Health Rankings, data from the BRFSS are used to measure various health behaviors and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) indicators. All data from the BRFSS are weighted by population and the HRQoL measures are age-adjusted. We obtained county-level measures, in almost all instances aggregated over seven years, from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Example Indicators
Percentage of Population 18 years and Over Getting Insufficient Sleep, Smoking rate among population 18 years and older, Average number of physically unhealthy days in past 30 days
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Data Years
Data is available in SAVI for these years:
2014-2017
Use This Data In SAVI
This data source is used in the following SAVI tools.