We talked about this yesterday, we’re trying to put together a list of special needs that is all encompassing, and we want to combine the various disorders and issues together that often aren’t differentiated between on referral medical information. Also, for some issues, like heart defects or limb differences, it may make more sense to [...]

As I’m working on the Post Referral/Post TA survey, I need a few more pieces of information.
1. What countries are currently adopting from China? Here is the list from the CCAA site, but it’s a few years old and I want to make sure we don’t miss anyone:

* Australia
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Here is where I am with the questions right now (don’t answer these, if you missed the January 20th post about this, we’re devising a survey that will be up permanently, for people to fill out once they have their NSN referral in hand, or once they have their SN TA in hand.)
Questions for everyone:

LID
Date [...]

I’m playing around with the idea to put up what would be a permanent survey, one that I would do the reporting on about a week after referrals come out.
I’m thinking the questions would be:

LID
Age of child
Gender of child
Province child is from
Possibly the orphanage, but some families may not be comfortable reporting that, so [...]

The U.S. State Department has released their orphan statistics for FY2009. It appears that there were 3001 adoptions from China to the U.S., including both NSN and SN.
I had hoped to play around with those numbers some this weekend, but it just didn’t happen. And then my car wouldn’t start this morning and RK had [...]

The first thing I need to do today is introduce two tables that show results from our surveys.
This first table shows multiple poll results for the same six months:

Take a look at the first column. If this were a scientific poll then we could expect that September of 2006 would be slightly larger than April [...]