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Adoption Exhibit 28
Duration(1) Free for Adoption of Children Awaiting Adoption,
1992 VCIS Survey

1992 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 73 43 84 110 0 310 17.6
Alaska              
Arizona              
Arkansas              
California              
Colorado              
Connecticut              
Delaware              
D.C.              
Florida              
Georgia 139 43 136 131 1 450 15.8
Hawaii              
Idaho              
Illinois              
Indiana 30 34 69 154 0 287 > 24.1
Iowa              
Kansas              
Kentucky              
Louisiana              
Maine              
Maryland              
Massachusetts              
Michigan              
Minnesota              
Mississippi 22 12 15 47 0 96 > 23.2
Missouri 18 12 45 304 0 379 > 24.4
Montana              
Nebraska              
Nevada              
New Hampshire              
New Jersey              
New Mexico              
New York 1,191 731 613 642 0 3,177 9.3
North Carolina              
North Dakota 8 2 1 5 0 16 6.0
Ohio              
Oklahoma              
Oregon              
Pennsylvania              
Puerto Rico              
Rhode Island              
South Carolina              
South Dakota              
Tennessee 19 21 55 476 0 571 >24.4
Texas              
Utah              
Vermont 10 10 11 8 0 39 11.7
Virginia 15 21 49 338 0 423 >24.4
Washington              
West Virginia              
Wisconsin              
Wyoming              
Reporting States Total 1,525 929 1,078 2,215 1 5,748 16.7
Percent 26.5% 16.2% 18.8% 38.5% 0.0% 100.0%  
Number of Reporting States 11            
  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.