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Risk Factors
Statistics
Hysterectomy Status
by State and Race
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Hysterectomy Status by State and Race
1998-2000

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The following table is representative of the percentage of women, by racial distribution, within the United States who answered "Yes" to this question on a national survey.*

STATE
ALL RACES
"White" non-Hispanic
"Black" non-Hispanic
Hispanic
AI/AN
A/PI
Alabama
30.2
31.4
26.2
34.1
-
-
Alaska
19.1
18.9
27.8
20.7
21.2
-
Arizona
22.9
24.9
19.7
18.4
20.9
20.2
Arkansas
27.8
28.1
25.2
20.2
47.2
-
California
20.0
20.4
24.8
18.4
-
12.4
Colorado
23.6
23.0
26.2
29.9
25.3
-
Connecticut
15.9
14.5
21.6
25.7
-
-
Delaware
17.2
16.8
20.0
-
-
-
District of Columbia
15.9
12.4
18.0
15.0
*
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Florida
21.9
23.4
21.6
16.5
29.5
-
Georgia
26.4
26.6
25.7
26.0
-
17.0
Hawaii
15.2
15.5
23.1
16.4
23.0
14.3
Idaho
26.7
27.0
-
23.6
27.1
-
Illinois
19.1
19.2
20.8
11.6
-
-
Indiana
21.5
21.0
23.7
29.3
26.1
-
Iowa
18.2
18.2
26.1
16.8
29.8
18.9
Kansas
23.4
23.8
20.8
19.3
22.5
-
Kentucky
24.5
24.4
26.5
32.1
38.2
-
Louisiana
29.7
31.8
25.3
26.7
35.2
-
Maine
18.5
18.3
-
27.7
-
-
Maryland
19.3
17.9
23.7
20.6
25.6
-
Massachusetts
14.1
13.7
14.9
21.2
-
-
Michigan
19.8
19.4
24.5
14.6
25.0
-
Minnesota
16.7
16.7
21.7
15.2
-
-
Mississippi
30.8
33.0
25.9
26.6
-
*
Missouri
21.7
21.4
25.4
26.2
25.9
-
Montana
21.5
21.8
-
17.3
21.5
*
Nebraska
20.3
20.1
30.2
24.9
-
28.8
Nevada
26.3
26.1
27.0
31.7
39.2
-
New Hampshire
15.3
15.0
*
28.9
-
*
New Jersey
13.9
12.5
15.7
19.6
25.2
-
New Mexico
22.5
24.1
25.5
20.4
24.7
-
New York
13.8
14.4
13.6
11.2
-
-
North Carolina
23.6
23.4
24.8
19.7
27.5
-
North Dakota
19.2
19.0
-
-
25.2
*
Ohio
21.5
21.4
24.4
19.7
-
-
Oklahoma
25.5
25.6
24.3
24.2
24.8
23.0
Oregon
23.0
23.3
25.0
18.2
34.0
-
Pennsylvania
19.1
18.9
20.9
20.0
-
17.6
Puerto Rico
19.7
-
-
19.8
*
*
Rhode Island
17.4
16.6
19.2
21.9
40.4
-
South Carolina
27.1
27.6
25.9
27.1
-
*
South Dakota
18.6
18.7
-
25.1
15.6
17.0
Tennessee
26.9
27.1
26.0
25.9
55.6
-
Texas
26.0
27.2
27.6
22.0
33.6
-
Utah
25.8
25.8
30.9
31.4
36.1
-
Vermont
15.6
15.6
-
20.6
-
-
Virginia
20.9
20.9
25.1
16.6
-
-
Washington
22.5
22.6
31.3
26.6
26.5
18.7
West Virginia
23.7
23.5
25.3
30.9
27.2
-
Wisconsin
16.8
16.6
24.1
17.1
28.4
-
Wyoming
26.9
26.7
31.5
31.1
-
-

AI/AN
Non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives
A/PI
Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islanders
*
Sample size = 0
-
Unreliable Data
The percentage is not shown and labeled as unreliable when the relative standard error (standard error (x))/x*100) is greater than or equal to 30%.

* Hysterectomy Status by State, Race/Ethnicity, and Age, 1996-2000. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2000. Survey data, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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