Table 15: PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT, FY 2001

Data Preview Report - September 2002

Table 15
PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT, FY 2001
STATES	IV-D Out-of-Wedlock Births*	IV-D Paternity Established or Acknowledged**	Statewide Out-of-Wedlock Births***	Statewide Paternities Established or Acknowledged****
ALABAMA	174,775	108,328	174,775	6,806
ALASKA	9,281	6,924	3,138	2,843
ARIZONA	201,099	101,176	33,438	NA
ARKANSAS	86,634	71,268	12,516	NA
CALIFORNIA	1,502,623	1,054,513	174,185	243,083
COLORADO	74,012	65,245	16,582	16,554
CONNECTICUT	129,586	100,356	12,565	14,582
DELAWARE	47,342	33,606	4,227	NA
DIST. OF COL.	75,037	23,487	NA	NA
FLORIDA	435,483	401,098	78,051	65,999
GEORGIA	322,492	202,080	50,156	53,353
GUAM	2,279	861	2,379	2,743
HAWAII	33,410	26,313	5,458	NA
IDAHO	28,682	26,235	4,568	2,814
ILLINOIS	776,133	338,612	61,143	61,957
INDIANA	239,550	116,619	NA	NA
IOWA	109,314	92,687	10,978	9,319
KANSAS	61,861	55,907	11,428	8,482
KENTUCKY	157,952	119,754	8,177	8,940
LOUISIANA	192,252	105,330	NA	9,705
MAINE	39,639	35,207	4,302	1,565
MARYLAND	229,659	171,837	23,546	27,758
MASSACHUSETTS	130,277	96,606	21,607	19,546
MICHIGAN	466,868	373,714	45,667	49,191
MINNESOTA	146,022	113,530	17,493	16,202
MISSISSIPPI	215,148	141,490	NA	NA
MISSOURI	232,289	183,532	26,531	22,891
MONTANA	18,628	18,379	3,373	NA
NEBRASKA	41,824	33,142	6,789	5,707
NEVADA	58,354	31,036	11,437	7,429
NEW HAMPSHIRE	22,202	21,593	3,556	2,904
NEW JERSEY	180,164	136,046	30,053	35,397
NEW MEXICO	19,429	6,584	11,906	15,018
NEW YORK	608,871	402,452	94,779	90,335
NORTH CAROLINA	343,297	294,360	NA	NA
NORTH DAKOTA	15,158	11,748	2,366	NA
OHIO	506,867	351,915	53,829	56,524
OKLAHOMA	122,331	53,770	15,997	13,894
OREGON	83,830	57,613	13,849	12,272
PENNSYLVANIA	265,493	195,375	47,973	65,234
PUERTO RICO	16,699	15,064	43,215	40,247
RHODE ISLAND	51,809	31,947	NA	NA
SOUTH CAROLINA	177,254	131,476	21,055	12,987
SOUTH DAKOTA	15,038	13,537	3,400	NA
TENNESSEE	216,190	138,154	28,605	20,743
TEXAS	648,372	401,835	105,592	83,018
UTAH	32,222	33,770	8,481	8,017
VERMONT	12,146	11,450	NA	NA
VIRGIN ISLANDS	NA	NA	1,243	1,271
VIRGINIA	250,675	210,501	29,324	25,211
WASHINGTON	154,518	151,124	22,708	NA
WEST VIRGINIA	70,058	55,171	6,821	5,964
WISCONSIN	204,438	168,298	NA	NA
WYOMING	13,414	9,417	1,713	1,410
TOTALS	10,268,980	7,152,072	1,370,974	1,147,915
Source: Form OCSE-157	line 5	line 6	line 8	line 9
*These numbers are as reported by states.
**These numbers include all of the children in the child support enforcement caseload with paternity established and/or acknowledged in any fiscal year.
***States not using the statewide paternity measure are not required to report this information.
****State paternity acknowledgements include an unknown number of acknowledgements for children in the IV-D caseload.
Note: No assumption is made regarding data reliability.
NA-not available
Virgin Islands did not report data for lines 5 and 6.