Notes

Amendments

17 Feb 2020 - On page 38 of Adoptions Australia 2018–19 report, 1 ‘other known’ adoption was reported under the ‘relative’ category.

  • This has now been corrected and excluded from the associated figure as there was insufficient information to determine if the child was adopted by a relative or non-relative. As a result, the total number of Australian children adopted by relatives in 2018–19 was reduced by 1 to 68  and the decline of adoption by relatives since 1994–95 was corrected to 79%. Table S28 in the data tables has updated to reflect this change.
  • The link to underlying tables for data visualisations was directed to the supplementary tables of the main report and this has been corrected.

 

Data quality statement

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Data in the displays are based on the National Adoptions Dataset Specifications.