Population Flow Exhibit 3: National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1992 VCIS Survey

Population Flow Exhibit 3
National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1992 VCIS Survey

Population	Number of Reporting States	Reporting States Total	National Estimate
Substitute Care(1):
Children in Care at the Start of the Reporting Period	37	368,712	416,948
Children Entering Care	37	196,051	221,699
Children Exiting Care	37	179,321	202,780
Children in Care at the End of the Reporting Period	51	433,438	436,234
Adoption(2):
Children Adopted	19	7,097	18,725
Children Waiting to be Adopted	17	7,807	23,104
Children in Non-finalized Adoptive Homes	16	6,727	19,356

Source: VCIS Survey, Part I, questions 1, 2, 4, and 5, and Part II, questions 15, 20, and 25.

For substitute care, reporting states include only those states that passed the flow-data edit; i.e., states where the number of children at the end of the reporting period equals the number of children in care at the start plus the number of children entering care, less the number of children exiting care (within 5 percent).
For adoption, all states who reported data are included in the reporting states total.