Statistics of adoptions: Adopted Children and Adolescents Gender — Circle-Free Cities and Circles — Year

*Short description The statistics on adoptions provide information about the adopted children in North Rhine-Westphalia. Socio-demographic characteristics of the adopted children, the marital status of the biological parents and the relationship between the adoptive parents and the child are among others characteristics that are collected annually. The provision of data is carried out by the public and free providers of youth welfare services as well as at recognised adoption agencies. The data are spatially differentiated up to the level of the district-free cities and districts. The quality report provides information on methods and definitions as well as the quality of the results of a statistics. It is available for free download on the website of the Federal Statistical Office. Here you will find the quality report (usually in PDF format) for this statistics: http://www.destatis.de/DE/Methoden/Qualitaet/Qualitaetsberichte/S oziales/einfuehrung.html [Link to the list of quality reports in PDF format (file size approx. 0.5 MB)] ___ *Literature — Statistical Reports North Rhine-Westphalia Here you will find the statistical publications (usually in PDF format) for North Rhine-Westphalia: https://webshop.it.nrw.de/ssearch.php?kategorie=10701 [Link to Webshop of IT.NRW, Statistics division]