COPD prevalence among employed non-smokers by region U.S. 2013-2017

This statistic shows the percentage of employed adults in the U.S. who never smoked but had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from 2013 to 2017, by region. It was found that around two percent of non-smoking employed adults in the Northeast had COPD.

Percentage of employed adults in the U.S. who never smoked but had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from 2013 to 2017, by region

Characteristic	Percentage of employed non-smoking adults
Northeast	2%
Midwest	2.5%
South	2.4%
West	2.1%

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April 2019

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United States

Survey time period

2013 to 2017

Supplementary notes

Proportion of workers who positively answered the question “Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that you had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also called COPD?” Proportion of workers who positively answered the question “Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that you had emphysema?” Proportion of workers who were solely identified as having COPD by a positive answer to the question “During the past 12 months, have you been told by a doctor or other health professional that you had chronic bronchitis?” For this report survey respondents with COPD were those who positively answered to any of these three questions.

Adults who reported “working at a job or business”; “with a job or business but not at work”; or “working, but not for pay, at a family–owned job or business” during the last 12 months of the survey interview and have never smoked.

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