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The differential between the abortion ratio for black women and that  for white women has increased from 2.0 in 1989 (the first year for  which black and other races were reported separately) to 3.0 in 2000. In addition, the abortion rate for black women has been  approximately 3 times as high as that for white women (range: 2.6--3.1) since 1991 (the first year for which rates by race were  published). These rates by race are substantially lower than  rates previously published by NCHS and suggest that the reporting  areas for the 2000 report might not be fully representative of the  U.S. black female population of reproductive age. Census Bureau  estimates and birth certificate data indicate that the large majority  of Hispanic women report themselves as white. Therefore, data for  some white women actually represent Hispanic women, which distorts the numbers. In 2000, 41 states, the District of Columbia and New York City  reported Hispanic ethnicity of women who obtained abortions. Because  of concerns regarding the completeness of such data (>15% unknown  data) in certain states, in 2000, data from only 29 states, the  District of Columbia, and New York City were used to determine the  number and percentage of abortions obtained by women of Hispanic  ethnicity. These geographic areas represent approximately 46% of all  reproductive-age Hispanic women in the United States for 2000 and  approximately 47% of U.S. Hispanic births. Thus, the number of  Hispanic women who obtain abortions is underestimated, and the number,  ratio, and rate of abortions for Hispanic women in this report are not  generalizable to the overall Hispanic population in the United States.