Race/Ethnicity of Public Agency Children Adopted

April 1, 1997 through September 30, 1997

(Total Cases = 10,256)

White Black Asian/PI AI/AN Unable to Missing

State Non-Hispanic Non-Hispanic Hispanic Non-Hispanic Non-Hispanic Determine % N N

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona 57% 12% 27% 2% 1% 100% 200

Arkansas

California 45% 23% 30% 2% 1% 100% 413

Colorado* 46% 26% 18% 1% 1% 8% 100% 279

Connecticut

Dist. of Columbia 100% 100% 38

Florida 62% 37% 1% 100% 461

Georgia

Hawaii1 16% 5% 2% 73% 3% 1% 100% 102

Idaho

Illinois 19% 77% 3% 1% 100% 1,840

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana 45% 55% 100% 47

Maine* 100% 100% 57

Maryland 47% 42% 7% 2% 1% 1% 100% 119

Massachusetts*2 49% 25% 19% 7% 100% 518

Michigan

Minnesota 56% 34% 6% 2% 2% 100% 132

Mississippi 55% 43% 2% 100% 51

Missouri

Montana 74% 2% 6% 18% 100% 66

Nebraska

Nevada* 71% 6% 11% 2% 9% 100% 46

New Hampshire

New Jersey* 17% 73% 9% 1% 100% 270

New Mexico

New York*3 9% 52% 15% 24% 100% 3,289

North Carolina* 47% 47% 2% 1% 1% 2% 100% 88

North Dakota 68% 6% 26% 100% 31

Ohio* 52% 39% 1% 8% 100% 491

Oklahoma* 65% 15% 20% 100% 20

Oregon 67% 11% 16% 1% 4% 100% 224

Pennsylvania* 34% 62% 3% 2% 100% 409

Puerto Rico 1% 99% 100% 104

Rhode Island* 56% 17% 8% 1% 18% 100% 72

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee 67% 33% 1% 100% 74

Texas

Utah 91% 1% 6% 1% 1% 100% 105

Vermont 98% 2% 100% 51

Virginia

Washington 74% 16% 4% 2% 5% 100% 421

West Virginia

Wisconsin 53% 38% 3% 5% 100% 238

Wyoming

Reporting States 32% 46% 11% 1% 1% 9% 100% 10,256

*Failed Children's Bureau standard for data quality.