{
  "alt": "Line chart of the share of adults with frequent mental distress for six age groups, 2014 to 2024. The lines for the four younger groups are close together in 2014, then the youngest group climbs to a peak in 2022 and falls in 2024, the older groups rise less, and the two oldest groups stay the lowest lines with small increases.",
  "caption": "The four younger groups start together in 2014 and fan out, with the youngest groups rising most, the youngest peaking in 2022 and falling in 2024, and the two oldest groups staying lowest. Each line plots the weighted share of respondents who reported {fact:fmd_days} or more days of poor mental health; bands are 95% intervals and are drawn for the youngest group and for adults {fact:band_mid} only.",
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      "age_group": "18 to 24",
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      "conf_low": 11.63,
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      "rate": 12.31,
      "year": 2014
    },
    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
      "conf_high": 13.14,
      "conf_low": 12.02,
      "n": 41901,
      "rate": 12.57,
      "year": 2014
    },
    {
      "age_group": "35 to 49",
      "conf_high": 12.73,
      "conf_low": 11.87,
      "n": 83788,
      "rate": 12.29,
      "year": 2014
    },
    {
      "age_group": "50 to 64",
      "conf_high": 12.89,
      "conf_low": 12.19,
      "n": 140980,
      "rate": 12.53,
      "year": 2014
    },
    {
      "age_group": "65 to 74",
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      "conf_low": 7.66,
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      "rate": 8.05,
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    },
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      "age_group": "75 and older",
      "conf_high": 6.97,
      "conf_low": 6.14,
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      "rate": 6.54,
      "year": 2014
    },
    {
      "age_group": "18 to 24",
      "conf_high": 13.94,
      "conf_low": 12.5,
      "n": 23237,
      "rate": 13.2,
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    },
    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
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      "conf_low": 11.76,
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      "rate": 12.29,
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    },
    {
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    },
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    {
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      "conf_low": 13.78,
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      "rate": 14.47,
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    },
    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
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    {
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      "conf_low": 12.18,
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    },
    {
      "age_group": "65 to 74",
      "conf_high": 8.24,
      "conf_low": 7.5,
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      "rate": 7.86,
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    {
      "age_group": "75 and older",
      "conf_high": 7.03,
      "conf_low": 6.11,
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      "rate": 6.56,
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    {
      "age_group": "18 to 24",
      "conf_high": 17.36,
      "conf_low": 15.73,
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      "rate": 16.53,
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    },
    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
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      "conf_low": 13.06,
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      "conf_low": 12.4,
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      "conf_low": 8.2,
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      "conf_low": 19.62,
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      "year": 2019
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      "conf_low": 15.87,
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      "rate": 16.45,
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      "age_group": "35 to 49",
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      "conf_low": 13.2,
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      "conf_low": 12.63,
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      "conf_low": 8.67,
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      "conf_low": 18.08,
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      "conf_low": 16.05,
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      "conf_high": 14.85,
      "conf_low": 13.8,
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      "rate": 14.31,
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      "age_group": "50 to 64",
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      "conf_low": 12.29,
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      "rate": 12.78,
      "year": 2020
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      "conf_low": 8.29,
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      "rate": 8.77,
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      "age_group": "75 and older",
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      "conf_low": 6.55,
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      "year": 2020
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      "age_group": "18 to 24",
      "conf_high": 23.54,
      "conf_low": 21.71,
      "n": 25110,
      "rate": 22.61,
      "year": 2021
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    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
      "conf_high": 18.98,
      "conf_low": 17.69,
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      "rate": 18.33,
      "year": 2021
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      "conf_high": 15.88,
      "conf_low": 14.82,
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      "conf_low": 13.05,
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      "conf_low": 8.46,
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      "conf_high": 8.55,
      "conf_low": 7.39,
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      "conf_low": 19.6,
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      "conf_low": 9.69,
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      "conf_low": 7.66,
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      "conf_high": 24.19,
      "conf_low": 22.32,
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      "rate": 23.24,
      "year": 2023
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    {
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      "conf_low": 19.98,
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      "rate": 20.67,
      "year": 2023
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      "age_group": "35 to 49",
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      "conf_low": 16.27,
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      "rate": 16.82,
      "year": 2023
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    {
      "age_group": "50 to 64",
      "conf_high": 14.3,
      "conf_low": 13.37,
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      "rate": 13.83,
      "year": 2023
    },
    {
      "age_group": "65 to 74",
      "conf_high": 9.99,
      "conf_low": 8.98,
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      "rate": 9.47,
      "year": 2023
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    {
      "age_group": "75 and older",
      "conf_high": 8.17,
      "conf_low": 7.24,
      "n": 70449,
      "rate": 7.69,
      "year": 2023
    },
    {
      "age_group": "18 to 24",
      "conf_high": 22.65,
      "conf_low": 20.95,
      "n": 28711,
      "rate": 21.79,
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "age_group": "25 to 34",
      "conf_high": 21,
      "conf_low": 19.62,
      "n": 48280,
      "rate": 20.3,
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "age_group": "35 to 49",
      "conf_high": 17.76,
      "conf_low": 16.73,
      "n": 85851,
      "rate": 17.24,
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "age_group": "50 to 64",
      "conf_high": 14.89,
      "conf_low": 13.94,
      "n": 106111,
      "rate": 14.41,
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "age_group": "65 to 74",
      "conf_high": 10.05,
      "conf_low": 9.15,
      "n": 89682,
      "rate": 9.59,
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "age_group": "75 and older",
      "conf_high": 8.01,
      "conf_low": 7.05,
      "n": 75841,
      "rate": 7.52,
      "year": 2024
    }
  ],
  "id": "fmd_by_year_age",
  "notes": [
    "Respondents are adults in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each survey year is a new sample, not the same people followed over time, and every interval is design-based (final weight, stratum and primary sampling unit).",
    "Some states are missing in some years: New Jersey in 2019, Florida in 2021, Kentucky and Pennsylvania in 2023 and Tennessee in 2024. Restricting every estimate to the {fact:const_states} jurisdictions present in every year moves no age-by-year estimate by more than {fact:const_max_diff} points.",
    "Interviews in 2020 took place during the first year of the pandemic."
  ],
  "source": "CDC BRFSS, 2014-2024, adults in the 50 states and DC; weighted (BRFSS final weight), design-based intervals",
  "spec": {
    "bandSeries": [
      "18 to 24",
      "50 to 64"
    ],
    "colors": {
      "18 to 24": "highlight",
      "25 to 34": "cat2",
      "35 to 49": "cat1",
      "50 to 64": "cat6",
      "65 to 74": "cat8",
      "75 and older": "muted"
    },
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "series": "age_group",
    "x": "year",
    "xDomain": [
      2014,
      2024
    ],
    "xLabel": "Survey year",
    "xTicks": "data",
    "y": "rate",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      30
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "yLabel": "Adults with frequent mental distress (%)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Adults reporting 14 or more of the past 30 days with mental health not good, percent, by age group and survey year, 50 states and DC, 2014 to 2024",
  "title": "Frequent mental distress among adults {fact:band_young} rose from {fact:fmd_young_2014} in 2014 to {fact:fmd_young_2022} in 2022, while the rate for adults {fact:band_mid} moved from {fact:fmd_mid_2014} to {fact:fmd_mid_2022}",
  "type": "line"
}