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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Serv Rev. 2017 Mar;91(1):8–40. doi: 10.1086/691148

Appendix Table 1.

Reported foster care, severance, or other income by living arrangement


Total children in each group # with foster Care, severance, or other income > 0 % with foster care, severance, or other income > 0 Mean foster care, severance, or other income ($) Mean foster care, severance, or other income (>0) ($)

Children Living with Parents 1,105,809 18,864 1.7 56.70 4581.25
Foster Children 3,208 1,047 32.6 4379.12 13285.28
Children Living with Grandparents 21,343 595 2.8 170.52 7374.28
Children Living with Other Relatives 11,461 290 2.5 178.83 8634.54

Total 1,141,821 20,796 72.17 5319.90

Note: Estimates from March 1991 to March 2012 CPS. All estimates weighted using person-level weights provided in the CPS ASEC (marsupwt).