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Population Flow Exhibit 1
National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1994 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 |
31 |
275,477 |
429,569 |
| Children Entering Care |
31 |
168,618 |
262,937 |
| Children Exiting Care |
31 |
145,301 |
226,577 |
| Children in Care at the End of the Reporting Period |
52 |
465,820 |
465,820 |
| Adoption(2): |
| Children Adopted |
20 |
5,473 |
21,306 |
| Children Waiting to be Adopted |
20 |
9,944 |
38,712 |
| Children in Non-finalized Adoptive Homes |
19 |
6,257 |
24,538 |
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.
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