Table 8: Paternity Establishment, FY2004

Return to: Preliminary Data Report FY 2004

PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT, FY 2004
STATES	IV-D Out-of-Wedlock Births ¹	IV-D Paternity Established or Acknowledged ²	Statewide Out-of-Wedlock Births	Statewide Paternities Established or Acknowledged ³
ALABAMA	151,015	118,505	151,015	7,745
ALASKA	25,359	24,077	3,528	3,131
ARIZONA	176,046	135,256	37,379	NA
ARKANSAS	82,816	73,254	12,978	NA
CALIFORNIA	1,391,525	1,218,836	181,337	213,542
COLORADO	79,375	71,661	18,450	17,514
CONNECTICUT	131,216	113,545	12,727	13,572
DELAWARE	47,317	34,823	4,821	NA
DIST. OF COL.	69,601	23,961	5,390	3,781
FLORIDA	476,670	419,778	87,922	76,626
GEORGIA	300,226	156,698	53,896	41,697
GUAM	12,625	9,648	1,882	NA
HAWAII	48,492	36,580	6,287	5,327
IDAHO	52,890	46,171	4,931	3,045
ILLINOIS	560,054	312,875	63,637	65,833
INDIANA	201,729	140,356	NA	NA
IOWA	91,921	84,424	11,960	10,660
KANSAS	78,223	73,557	12,495	10,556
KENTUCKY	177,373	152,560	10,026	19,603
LOUISIANA	223,509	174,907	NA	NA
MAINE	36,919	37,086	4,754	5,196
MARYLAND	199,901	166,717	24,729	23,313
MASSACHUSETTS	143,065	115,074	22,236	18,867
MICHIGAN	493,856	405,771	45,047	38,106
MINNESOTA	161,187	149,083	20,218	NA
MISSISSIPPI	234,371	178,145	NA	NA
MISSOURI	213,901	182,814	28,305	24,038
MONTANA	22,675	23,171	NA	NA
NEBRASKA	50,816	40,862	7,839	6,602
NEVADA	76,702	49,213	NA	NA
NEW HAMPSHIRE	25,748	25,523	3,834	3,414
NEW JERSEY	197,199	157,665	30,945	32,005
NEW MEXICO	63,978	34,805	NA	NA
NEW YORK	510,332	390,897	91,837	81,024
NORTH CAROLINA	300,008	284,481	NA	NA
NORTH DAKOTA	18,093	17,359	2,764	NA
OHIO	595,241	437,616	52,323	52,958
OKLAHOMA	123,768	65,796	14,900	15,998
OREGON	89,113	68,356	14,894	11,789
PENNSYLVANIA	296,502	254,067	48,193	48,858
PUERTO RICO	32,047	30,761	27,324	26,133
RHODE ISLAND	57,484	41,751	NA	NA
SOUTH CAROLINA	184,801	150,025	21,610	9,408
SOUTH DAKOTA	17,912	17,487	3,908	NA
TENNESSEE	256,338	217,115	30,450	23,664
TEXAS	626,405	452,988	136,466	134,948
UTAH	34,826	36,103	8,651	7,304
VERMONT	15,618	15,375	NA	NA
VIRGIN ISLANDS	5,648	2,218	1,130	902
VIRGINIA	227,040	172,701	30,239	26,301
WASHINGTON	175,835	162,033	23,681	NA
WEST VIRGINIA	56,782	51,867	7,451	6,543
WISCONSIN	218,911	213,625	NA	NA
WYOMING	11,949	10,343	2,059	1,630
TOTALS	10,152,953	8,080,365	1,386,448	1,091,633
Source: Form OCSE-157	line 5	line 6	line 8	line 9
¹ These numbers are as reported by state IV-D agencies.
² These numbers include all of the children in the child support enforcement caseload with paternity established and/or acknowledged in any fiscal year.
³ States not using the statewide paternity measure for the determination of incentives 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