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Table 2: ADOPT
Date: September, 2006

Race/Ethnicity of Public Agency Children Adopted
October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2004

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State
Child's Race/Ethnicity Total Missing
American Indian/Alaskan Native-Non Hispanic Asian-Non Hispanic Black or African American-Non Hispanic Native Hawiian/Other Pacific Islander-Non Hispanic Hispanic White-Non Hispanic Unknown/Unable to Determine Two or More-Non Hispanic Missing % N N
Alabama 0% 0% 35% 0% 2% 62% 0% 1% 0% 100% 398 0
Alaska 55% 5% 9% 0% 5% 24% 0% 1% 0% 100% 182 0
Arizona 1% 0% 7% 0% 42% 43% 1% 6% 0% 100% 729 0
Arkansas 0% 0% 31% 0% 5% 59% 0% 5% 0% 100% 331 0
California1 0% 1% 21% 0% 41% 31% 0% 5% 0% 100% 7754 0
Colorado 0% 1% 11% 0% 35% 48% 0% 4% 0% 100% 958 0
Connecticut 1% 0% 27% 0% 26% 38% 0% 8% 0% 100% 349 0
Delaware 0% 0% 63% 0% 4% 33% 0% 0% 0% 100% 73 0
District of Columbia 0% 1% 97% 0% 1% 0% 0% 1% 0% 100% 436 0
Florida 0% 0% 35% 0% 10% 51% 1% 3% 0% 100% 3264 0
Georgia 0% 0% 46% 0% 4% 42% 0% 7% 0% 100% 1269 0
Hawaii 1% 13% 1% 23% 4% 6% 1% 50% 1% 100% 375 0
Idaho 10% 1% 0% 0% 18% 68% 0% 3% 0% 100% 176 0
Illinois 0% 0% 66% 0% 4% 27% 2% 0% 0% 100% 2227 0
Indiana 0% 0% 35% 0% 4% 54% 0% 7% 0% 100% 1057 0
Iowa 3% 1% 11% 0% 9% 71% 0% 4% 0% 100% 1061 0
Kansas 0% 0% 24% 0% 4% 69% 2% 1% 0% 100% 653 0
Kentucky 0% 0% 18% 0% 4% 72% 0% 6% 0% 100% 805 0
Louisiana 1% 1% 54% 0% 1% 43% 0% 0% 0% 100% 455 0
Maine 1% 0% 0% 0% 3% 80% 14% 2% 0% 100% 307 0
Maryland 0% 0% 71% 0% 1% 21% 3% 4% 0% 100% 914 0
Massachusetts 0% 1% 16% 0% 26% 49% 4% 4% 0% 100% 812 0
Michigan 1% 0% 45% 0% 5% 43% 0% 7% 0% 100% 2801 0
Minnesota 0% 0% 24% 0% 12% 49% 4% 10% 0% 100% 603 0
Mississippi 0% 0% 47% 0% 3% 48% 0% 2% 0% 100% 270 0
Missouri 0% 1% 31% 0% 4% 63% 0% 1% 0% 100% 1391 0
Montana 17% 0% 0% 0% 14% 68% 0% 1% 0% 100% 192 0
Nebraska2 5% 0% 18% 0% 7% 68% 1% 1% 0% 100% 367 0
Nevada 1% 0% 20% 0% 22% 54% 0% 3% 0% 100% 278 0
New Hampshire 1% 0% 3% 0% 3% 91% 2% 0% 0% 100% 102 0
New Jersey 0% 0% 58% 0% 8% 23% 8% 3% 0% 100% 1328 0
New Mexico 1% 0% 6% 0% 56% 34% 0% 3% 0% 100% 265 0
New York 0% 0% 46% 0% 16% 17% 21% 0% 0% 100% 4258 0
North Carolina 2% 0% 34% 0% 8% 49% 0% 7% 0% 100% 1198 0
North Dakota 4% 0% 3% 0% 8% 73% 0% 13% 0% 100% 128 0
Ohio 0% 0% 41% 0% 3% 50% 0% 6% 0% 100% 2201 0
Oklahoma 13% 0% 19% 0% 6% 50% 0% 11% 0% 100% 1141 0
Oregon 0% 0% 7% 0% 13% 72% 0% 7% 0% 100% 943 0
Pennsylvania 0% 0% 51% 0% 11% 37% 0% 0% 0% 100% 1898 0
Puerto Rico 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 475 0
Rhode Island 0% 1% 18% 0% 19% 51% 0% 8% 3% 100% 235 0
South Carolina 0% 0% 45% 0% 1% 49% 0% 5% 0% 100% 359 0
South Dakota 45% 0% 1% 0% 9% 36% 0% 10% 0% 100% 123 0
Tennessee 0% 0% 25% 0% 3% 63% 0% 8% 0% 100% 891 0
Texas 0% 1% 24% 0% 38% 32% 1% 4% 0% 100% 2556 0
Utah 2% 1% 1% 0% 29% 67% 0% 0% 0% 100% 298 0
Vermont 0% 0% 1% 0% 2% 92% 0% 4% 0% 100% 220 0
Virginia 0% 0% 48% 0% 5% 39% 1% 8% 0% 100% 525 0
Washington3 4% 1% 7% 0% 13% 69% 1% 5% 0% 100% 1245 0
West Virginia 0% 0% 6% 0% 2% 84% 1% 7% 0% 100% 384 0
Wisconsin 2% 1% 51% 0% 8% 33% 0% 5% 0% 100% 1152 0
Wyoming 2% 0% 5% 0% 7% 84% 0% 2% 0% 100% 56 0

1 Used "Unable to Determine" for race of Hispanic or Mexican or Central American or South American and "Yes" for Hispanic Orgin code. Back
2 "Unable to Determine" includes persons with race indicated as "other". Back
3 "Not reported" and "does not apply" are both coded as "not reported". This cannot be corrected in the current technical environment, but will be corrected in Washington's new SACWIS system. Back

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