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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2012 Oct 11;35(1):11–18. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.09.017

Table 2.

Comparison of care careers of youth in out-of-home placement and aged out youth.

Placement Aged Out t df
Age at first placement (years) 10.5 10.8 −1.79       3126
Length out-of-home placement (years)   1.3   4.6 −32.89*** 1904
Total number placements   3.4   8.2 −29.12*** 1908
Foster home ever (%) 64 80 −10.58*** 3241
Foster home only placement (%) 40 23 11.77*** 3210
Foster home percent time 53 54 −.55**   3170
Congregate care ever (%) 55 73 −11.92*** 3117
Congregate care only placement (%) 31 13 13.75*** 3513
Congregate care percent time 41 37   2.38*     3296
Runaway ever (%) 16 40 −15.97*** 2237
*

p<.05.

**

p<.01.

***

p<.001.