U.S. Adult Sleep Insufficiency Prevalence from BRFSS, 2008

403,981 respondents across 50 states, D.C., and three U.S. territories reported on insufficient rest or sleep. The 2008 CDC analysis found 11.1% of adults reported insufficient rest or sleep every day in the preceding month, with prevalence varying by gender and race. This report summarizes Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data to examine a chronic public health problem.

Use Cases

• Model geographic disparities in sleep insufficiency based on state-level prevalence estimates ranging from 7.4% to 19.3%.
• Analyze demographic risk factors based on reported differences by gender (female 12.4%, male 9.9%) and race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic black 13.3%).
• Benchmark population sleep health metrics against the reported baseline of 30.7% of adults experiencing no days of insufficient rest.

Strengths

• Based on a large-scale survey of 403,981 adult respondents.
• Provides state-level granularity for all 50 states, D.C., and three U.S. territories.
• Reports specific prevalence percentages for key demographic subgroups.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying raw data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

Collection Method

Survey analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Time Range

2008

Geography

United States (all 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands)