Unhealthy Sleep-Related Behaviors Survey Data from 12 U.S. States, 2009

74,571 adult respondents from 12 U.S. states participated in a 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) sleep module. The data shows 35.3% reported less than 7 hours of sleep, 48.0% reported snoring, and 4.7% reported nodding off while driving in the preceding 30 days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed this data to assess the prevalence and distribution of sleep difficulties.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of short sleep duration (<7 hours) based on the reported sleep duration metric.
• Model the association between snoring and other health-risk behaviors based on the snoring indicator.
• Assess the risk of daytime sleepiness and drowsy driving based on reported unintentional daytime sleep and nodding off while driving.
• Investigate demographic or geographic patterns in sleep difficulties across the 12 surveyed states.

Strengths

• Large sample size of 74,571 adult respondents.
• Data collected via the standardized Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.
• Provides specific prevalence percentages for key sleep behaviors: 35.3% for short sleep, 48.0% for snoring, 37.9% for daytime sleepiness, and 4.7% for drowsy driving.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to 12 U.S. states, which may limit national generalizability.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Collection Method

Survey data from a sleep module added to the BRFSS.

Time Range

2009

Geography

12 U.S. states (specific states not named in input).