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Adoption Exhibit 27
Duration(1) Free for Adoption of Children Awaiting Adoption,
1993 VCIS Survey

1993 Reporting States Under 6 months 6 Months to 1 Year 1-2 Years 2 Years and Over Duration Unknown Duration Total Median Time In Months (2)
Alabama 62 50 64 128 0 304 19.5
Alaska              
Arizona              
Arkansas              
California              
Colorado              
Connecticut              
Delaware              
D.C.              
Florida              
Georgia              
Hawaii              
Idaho              
Illinois              
Indiana 32 40 43 157 0 272 >24.1
Iowa              
Kansas              
Kentucky              
Louisiana              
Maine              
Maryland              
Massachusetts              
Michigan              
Minnesota              
Mississippi 15 14 16 46 0 91 > 24.0
Missouri 19 24 40 331 0 414 24.4
Montana              
Nebraska 14 11 33 29 7 94 18.7
Nevada              
New Hampshire              
New Jersey              
New Mexico              
New York 1,244 763 640 670 0 3,317 9.3
North Carolina              
North Dakota 3 1 1 4 0 9 18.0
Ohio              
Oklahoma              
Oregon              
Pennsylvania              
Puerto Rico              
Rhode Island              
South Carolina              
South Dakota              
Tennessee 14 23 66 584 0 687 > 24.4
Texas              
Utah              
Vermont 27 7 7 14 0 55 6.4
Virginia 3 11 40 312 0 366 > 24.4
Washington              
West Virginia              
Wisconsin              
Wyoming              
Reporting States Total 1,433 944 950 2,275 7 5,609 17.4
Percent 25.5% 16.8% 16.9% 40.6% 0.1% 100.0%  
Number of Reporting States 10            
  1. Length of time is defined as time spent in continuous substitute care; states are instructed that temporary visit/furloughs are not to be considered as breaks in continuity.
  2. Median time free for adoption, reported in months. Because the width of one of the question categories has no clear upper limit, under some circumstances only a lower limit may be computed for the median. These cases are indicated by a greater-than sign (>).

The median is calculated based upon the following formula:

Md=Lmd + (Md# - CFmd) x imd
        fmd

In other words, the Median time free (Md) equals the Lower Limit of the Median class (Lmd), plus the product of the Median number (Md#) minus the cumulative frequency of the class preceding the Median (CFmd), divided by the frequency of the median class (fmd), multiplied by the width of the median class (imd). The resulting calculation was then rounded to one decimal point.