Population Flow Exhibit 2: National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1993 VCIS Survey

Population Flow Exhibit 2
National Estimates of the Substitute Care and Adoption Populations, 1993 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	384,454	429,202
Children Entering Care	37	201,143	224,555
Children Exiting Care	37	189,043	211,046
Children in Care at the End of the Reporting Period	51	442,276	444,168
Adoption(2):
Children Adopted	19	7,392	19,686
Children Waiting to be Adopted	17	8,076	24,241
Children in Non-finalized Adoptive Homes	16	5,888	17,033

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.