Table 1.
Adoptions and Subsidy Payments in the States, 1996–2002
| Variable | Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |
| Ave. Adoptions with State Agency Involvement | 335 | 498 | 758 | 907 | 988 | 992 | 1022 |
| (485) | (922) | (1,117) | (1,422) | (1,507) | (1,540) | (1,410) | |
| Adoptions/ 1000 Births | 5.8 | 6.2 | 9.3 | 11.5 | 13.0 | 13.1 | 13.8 |
| (10.1) | (6.1) | (5.2) | (6.6) | (7.4) | (6.5) | (6.7) | |
| Adoptions with Subsidy | 255 | 298 | 651 | 801 | 871 | 875 | 912 |
| (385) | (475) | (1,016) | (1,301) | (1,398) | (1,442) | (1,325) | |
| Title IV-E Claims | 182 | 215 | 545 | 684 | 744 | 739 | 755 |
| (290) | (383) | (938) | (1,196) | (1,267) | (1,301) | (1,216) | |
| Ave. Subsidy, current dollars | 193 | 220 | 298 | 335 | 351 | 393 | 414 |
| (156) | (167) | (178) | (176) | (165) | (161) | (158) | |
| Ave. Subsidy, COL-adjustedc 2000 dollars | 214 | 240 | 324 | 355 | 359 | 390 | 403 |
| (174) | (185) | (195) | (187) | (169) | (151) | (141) | |
Note: Standard deviations in parentheses. See text for sources.