Connecticut State Department of Public Health

Connecticut Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (CT BRFSS)

 
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About the CT BRFSS
The BRFSS is an ongoing telephone survey of adults conducted in all 50 states and coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. Households are randomly selected and contacted by a contractor who conducts most interviews in the evenings and on weekends. Perhaps you or someone you know was called by the survey staff. Once an interviewer reaches a household, a random selection of adult household members is made to choose one person to participate in the survey. Listed and unlisted residential landline and cell phone numbers are included in the survey. 
 
The CT-BRFSS is authorized by CT DPH. You will see caller ID display as "CT Department of Public Health" and the interviewer will identify his/herself as calling on behalf of the CT Department of Public Health. The interviews are conducted by a contractor, identified through a transparent state bidding process. This contractor is ICF Macro, Inc., (http://www.icf.com), and the survey team can be reached at 877-364-0913.  
 
The questionnaire (CT BRFSS 2025 Questionnaire) changes somewhat from year to year and state to state to meet changing needs and address state specific priorities. The BRFSS originally collected data on health behaviors related to the leading causes of death, but has since been expanded to include issues related to health care access, utilization of preventive health services, and to address emerging issues such as cigar smoking or diet pill use. Each month survey data are sent to the CDC for editing and checking. At the end of each year data are compiled and adjusted to be representative of all adults in the state, and returned to states for analysis and use in planning and monitoring health programs. Data for all states are available via the CDC BRFSS website Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window.
 
 
CT BRFSS Summary Reports

CT BRFSS Reports and Publications

  • CT 2023 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, June 2025
  • CT 2022 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, July. 2024
  • CT 2021 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, January. 2023
  • CT 2020 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, Oct. 2022
  • CT 2019 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, Dec.2020
  • Connecticut’s High Risk Population for COVID-19 BRFSS Factsheet, March 2020
  • CT 2018 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, Oct. 2019
  • Analysis of Health Indicators for Connecticut Health Districts and Departments: Results of CT BRFSS, March 2019
  • The Health of Connecticut Workers: An Analysis of Health Indicators from 2013-2016 CT BRFSS by Industry and Occupation, March 2019
  • The Health of Medicare and Medicaid Recipients in Connecticut: Results of the 2013-2016 CT BRFSS, March 2019 
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences in Connecticut Adults, Results from the 2017 CT BRFSS, Dec. 2018
  • CT 2017 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, Dec. 2018
  • Children’s Health in Connecticut: 2011-2015, Results of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, July 2018
  • CT 2016 BRFSS Prevalence Estimates for Risk Factors and Health Indicators: Selected Summary Tables, April 2018
  • Local Analysis of Selected Health Indicators in Connecticut, Results from the 2011-2015 Connecticut Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), May, 2017  
  • Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention, Connecticut, 2014, March 2017
  • The Connecticut Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (CT BRFSS): Tracking Adult Immunization Status in the State, January 2017
  • Association between pregnancy planning and health behaviors: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in seven states, 2013, Sept 2016
  •      -  Slides from the CityMatch/MCH Epi Biennial meeting, Sept. 2016
  • Results of a Pilot Post-BRFSS Survey in the City of Hartford, Connecticut, June 2016
  • Selected Health Indicators Among Adult Men in Connecticut: Results of the Connecticut BRFSS, March 2016
  • Fact Sheet: Connecticut Rankings for Selected Health Indicators in Fairfield, Hartford, and New Haven County, 2011,  February, 2016
  • Change in Selected Connecticut Health Indicators, 2011-2014: Results from the Connecticut Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance, January, 2016.
  • Trends in influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among adults in Connecticut, years 2001-2010, November, 2015. 
  • -An extract of this report has been published in the Connecticut Epidemiologist, Volume 35, No. 6.
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among Northeast District Department of Health Adults in 2011-2013, April, 2015
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among North Central Health District Adults in 2011-2013, April, 2015
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among Eastern Highlands Health District Adults in 2011-2013, April, 2015
  • Factors associated with health disparities among Black/African American Women in Connecticut, September, 2014
  • Factsheet for General Audiences: Cognitive Impairment in Connecticut, May, 2014
  • Caregiving Across the United States: Caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee, April, 2014
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among Ledge Light Health District Adults in 2012, October, 2013
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among Naugatuck Valley Health District Adults in 2012, October, 2013
  • Behavioral Health Risks Among Torrington Area Health District Adults in 2012, October, 2013
  • Diabetes Preventive-Care Practices Fact Sheet, August, 2013
  • Prediabetes Fact Sheet, August, 2013
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences in Connecticut Factsheet, July, 2013
  • Association Between Number of Adverse Events in Childhood and Adult Risk Behaviors & Poor Health Outcomes, July, 2013 
  • Prediabetes Fact Sheet, April, 2012
  • Diabetes Preventive-Care Practices Fact Sheet, 2012
  • Burden of Diabetes in Connecticut, 2011
  • Diabetes Fact Sheet, 2011
  • The Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases in Connecticut – 2010 Surveillance Report
  • The Burden of Diabetes in Connecticut – 2010 Surveillance Report
  • Effect of Smoking on the Association Between Environmental Triggers and Asthma Severity Among Adults in New England (Aug 2010)

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    Recent Health Publications That Rely on CT BRFSS Data

  • State-Specific Percent of Cancers Detected by Screening (PCDS), December 2022
  • Surveillance for Health Care Access and Health Services Use, Adults Aged 18–64 Years - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2014, February 2017
  • Prevalence of Perceived Food and Housing Security – 15 States, 2013, January 2017
  • Contraceptive Use Among Nonpregnant and Postpartum Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy, and Female High School Students, in the Context of Zika Preparedness — United States, 2011–2013 and 2015, August 2016
  • Adverse childhood experiences in rural and urban contexts, April 2016
  • A Healthy Lifestyle Composite Measure: Significance and Potential Uses, March 2016
  • Breast Cancer in Young Women: Health State Utility Impacts by Race/Ethnicity, February 2016
  • Cancer in Connecticut,  July 2014
  • Live Healthy Connecticut 2014-2018: A coordinated chronic disease prevention and health promotion plan,  April, 2014
  • Healthy Connecticut 2020:  1 State Health Assessment, March, 2014 
  • Healthy Connecticut 2020: 2 State Health Improvement Plan, March, 2014
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    Current BRFSS Survey Script with Programming Notes

     
     
    Previous BRFSS Survey Scripts
    CT BRFSS Questionnaire, 2024
     
     
     
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    ADORA HARIZAJ, MPH, CPH
    Epidemiologist, BRFSS Project Director
    Connecticut Department of Public Health
    Health Statistics & Surveillance Section
    860-509-7968