TABLES: Tubal Sterilization in the United States, 1994-1996

	Family Planning Perspectives Volume 33, Number 4, July/August 2001
	Tubal Sterilization in the United States, 1994-1996 TABLES

Table 1. Mean annual number, rate and percentage distribution of tubal sterilization procedures, by timing of procedure and clinical setting, United States, 1994-1996
Timing/setting	Mean annual no.	Rate†	SE	% dist.	SE
Total	684,000	11.5	0.4	100	na
Postpartum
Inpatient (hospital)	338,000	5.7	0.3	49.5	3.0
Interval	345,000	5.8	0.3	50.6	na
Inpatient (hospital)	15,000	0.2	0.03	2.1	0.3
Outpatient	331,000	5.6	0.3	48.5
Hospital ambulatory surgery center‡	288,000	4.9	0.3	42.2	3.2
Freestanding outpatient surgery center	43,000	0.7	0.1	6.3	0.9
†Tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women of reproductive age (20-49 years) in the U.S. civilian resident population. ‡Includes procedures performed in hospitals as outpatient procedures. Note: SE=standard error.

Table 2. Estimated number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women, by timing of procedure, according to age
Age	All		Postpartum		Interval
Age	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
20-24	12.6	0.7	7.5	0.5	4.8	0.4
25-29	18.8	0.8	10.4	0.6	8.2	0.6
30-34	18.6	0.8	9.6	0.5	8.5	0.6
35-39	12.4	0.6	5.2	0.3	7.0	0.5
40-49	2.8	0.2	0.6	0.1	2.1	0.2
Notes: Rate is the number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women of the designated age-group in the U.S. civilian resident population. SE= standard error.

Table 3. Estimated number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women, by race, according to timing of procedure and clinical setting, and percentage of procedures for which race was not stated
Timing/setting	White		Black		Race not stated and white		% with race not stated
Timing/setting	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	% with race not stated
All	7.7	0.4	13.4	1.1	11.2	0.4	24.9
Postpartum	3.8	0.3	7.6	0.8	5.3*	0.3	21.4
Interval	3.8	0.3	5.5	0.7	5.8	0.4	28.6
Significantly different from black women at p<.05. Notes:* Rate is the number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women of the designated age-group in the U.S. civilian resident population. SE= standard error.

Table 4. Estimated number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women, by timing of procedure, according to region
Region	All		Postpartum		Interval
Region	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total	11.5	0.4	5.7	0.3	5.6	0.3
Northeast	10.5	1.0	3.4	0.4	6.7	1.0
Midwest	10.7	0.7	4.5	0.3	6.1	0.6
South	14.2	0.9	8.1	0.7	5.8	0.6
West	9.0	0.6	5.2	0.4	3.6	0.4
Notes: Rate is the number of tubal sterilizations per 1,000 women of the designated age-group in the U.S. civilian resident population. SE= standard error.

Table 5. Percentage distribution of tubal sterilizations, by expected primary source of payment for sterilization procedure and region, according to timing of sterilization
Region and payment source	All		Postpartum		Interval
Region and payment source	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE
U.S. total
Private	57.9	3.5	48.1	1.7	68.0	2.0
Medicaid	32.6	2.1	41.1	1.8	24.1	1.6
Other	9.5	0.9	10.8	1.0	7.9	1.1
Self-pay	2.3	0.3	3.1	0.4	1.3	0.2
Medicare	0.8	0.1	0.6	0.1	1.1	0.2
Other government	1.8	0.4	2.0	0.6	1.6	0.4
Other, specified	4.6	0.7	5.2	1.0	3.9	1.0
Northeast
Private	72.4	11.1	58.5	3.1	80.0	4.0
Medicaid	19.1	3.0	34.7	2.6	11.0	2.5
Other	8.5	2.1	6.8	1.4	9.0	2.5
Midwest
Private	62.7	7.1	54.6	4.1	68.9	3.3
Medicaid	27.7	3.2	31.8	2.2	24.6	2.9
Other	9.6	1.7	13.5	3.0	6.5	1.5
South
Private	51.2	5.3	44.8	2.6	60.0	3.4
Medicaid	38.9	4.0	45.7	3.3	29.9	2.9
Other	9.9	1.4	9.6	1.1	10.1	2.1
West
Private	53.3	5.8	44.3	3.3	66.5	3.3
Medicaid	37.1	4.4	41.9	3.0	31.0	3.5
Other	9.5	2.0	13.8	3.0	2.5†	1.3
† Estimate is not reliable, because relative standard erroris greater than 30%. Notes: SE=standard error. na=not applicable.