Population Flow Exhibit 5: National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1990 VCIS Survey

Population Flow Exhibit 5
National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1990 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	38	312,653	378,466
Children Entering Care	38	177,190	214,488
Children Exiting Care	38	154,299	186,779
Children in Care at the End of the Reporting Period	52	405,743	405,743
Adoption(2):
Children Adopted	36	13,362	16,211
Children Waiting to be Adopted	32	16,040	19,918
Children in Non-finalized Adoptive Homes	30	10,376	19,292

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.