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Table 15: Paternity Establishment, FY 2002

Return to: FY 2002 Child Support Enforcement Preliminary Data Report

PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT, FY 2002
STATES	IV-D Out-of-Wedlock Births¹	IV-D Paternity Established or Acknowledged²	Statewide Out-of-Wedlock Births³	Statewide Paternities Established or Acknowledged⁴
ALABAMA	157,036	114,281	157,036	7,016
ALASKA	10,139	7,494	3,190	2,813
ARIZONA	162,096	102,603	33,583	NA
ARKANSAS	85,028	74,398	13,040	NA
CALIFORNIA	1,448,216	1,123,033	172,888	188,011
COLORADO	73,843	65,632	17,177	17,055
CONNECTICUT	134,413	106,075	12,562	14,225
DELAWARE	48,550	36,554	4,319	NA
DIST. OF COL.	75,291	24,399	6,199	4,863
FLORIDA	428,252	374,735	80,711	62,519
GEORGIA	316,648	161,618	47,419	41,754
GUAM	15,113	12,021	1,749	1,072
HAWAII	38,340	29,734	5,525	NA
IDAHO	42,151	37,502	4,495	2,803
ILLINOIS	727,283	353,613	60,994	59,344
INDIANA	180,908	124,605	NA	NA
IOWA	80,500	71,930	11,080	9,613
KANSAS	65,662	58,461	11,645	8,543
KENTUCKY	167,842	130,379	9,060	16,910
LOUISIANA	199,886	147,705	NA	NA
MAINE	37,310	37,088	4,253	3,316
MARYLAND	222,689	170,496	23,130	22,762
MASSACHUSETTS	133,564	100,215	21,522	17,816
MICHIGAN	476,750	376,740	45,557	42,034
MINNESOTA	146,862	119,822	18,051	16,366
MISSISSIPPI	232,394	150,214	19,590	NA
MISSOURI	241,835	199,868	26,306	21,157
MONTANA	21,331	21,063	NA	NA
NEBRASKA	46,713	34,512	6,894	5,501
NEVADA	64,831	36,469	11,062	7,765
NEW HAMPSHIRE	23,498	23,699	3,573	3,311
NEW JERSEY	183,353	143,282	32,545	24,453
NEW MEXICO	24,091	11,193	NA	NA
NEW YORK	537,597	386,835	89,647	83,191
NORTH CAROLINA	313,511	289,790	NA	NA
NORTH DAKOTA	15,693	13,248	2,591	NA
OHIO	548,247	381,380	53,207	55,005
OKLAHOMA	115,495	56,992	14,300	12,908
OREGON	86,265	62,024	13,829	13,074
PENNSYLVANIA	266,747	212,768	48,604	51,525
PUERTO RICO	22,052	20,510	27,997	26,073
RHODE ISLAND	57,694	35,672	NA	NA
SOUTH CAROLINA	187,796	144,349	20,810	12,744
SOUTH DAKOTA	16,963	16,010	3,676	NA
TENNESSEE	217,900	144,738	29,065	21,764
TEXAS	619,647	454,069	117,306	114,497
UTAH	33,911	34,333	8,452	7,656
VERMONT	15,561	14,484	NA	NA
VIRGIN ISLANDS	5,609	3,277	1,020	658
VIRGINIA	237,239	199,974	29,685	26,757
WASHINGTON	158,313	155,885	21,650	NA
WEST VIRGINIA	62,055	52,897	6,928	6,172
WISCONSIN	207,293	193,202	NA	NA
WYOMING	12,473	9,665	1,732	1,675
TOTALS	10,050,479	7,463,535	1,355,654	1,034,721
Source: Form OCSE-157	line 5	line 6	line 8	line 9
¹These numbers are as reported by states.
²These numbers include all of the children in the child support enforcement caseload with paternity established and/or acknowledged in any fiscal year.
³States not using the statewide paternity measure are not required to report this information.
⁴State 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

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