Hysterectomy Status by State and Race
1998-2000

Have you had a hysterectomy?

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	*	-
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.