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Every jurisdiction that appears in the BRFSS _STATE value-label maps: the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the participating territories (American Samoa, Guam, Palau, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands). fips matches the _STATE column in the data, so this table joins directly onto any extract, and it is what the states argument of read_brfss() and brfss_design() accepts names and postal abbreviations from.

Usage

brfss_states

Format

A tibble with 56 rows and 5 columns:

fips

Census state FIPS code (integer), as in _STATE.

name

Jurisdiction name, e.g. "Texas".

abbr

Two-letter postal abbreviation, e.g. "TX".

region

Census region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West); NA for territories, which the Census regions do not cover.

division

Census division, e.g. "West South Central"; NA for territories.

Source

Census state FIPS codes (FIPS PUB 5-2) and Census regions and divisions; jurisdiction list cross-checked against CDC's _STATE format maps. Not every jurisdiction participates every year; see the datasets article for how reporting areas changed.

See also

The states argument of read_brfss() and brfss_design(); the Merging BRFSS with external data article.

Examples

brfss_states
#> # A tibble: 56 × 5
#>     fips name                 abbr  region    division          
#>    <int> <chr>                <chr> <chr>     <chr>             
#>  1     1 Alabama              AL    South     East South Central
#>  2     2 Alaska               AK    West      Pacific           
#>  3     4 Arizona              AZ    West      Mountain          
#>  4     5 Arkansas             AR    South     West South Central
#>  5     6 California           CA    West      Pacific           
#>  6     8 Colorado             CO    West      Mountain          
#>  7     9 Connecticut          CT    Northeast New England       
#>  8    10 Delaware             DE    South     South Atlantic    
#>  9    11 District of Columbia DC    South     South Atlantic    
#> 10    12 Florida              FL    South     South Atlantic    
#> # ℹ 46 more rows