The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: An Introduction to the Special Issue ofAdoption Quarterly

The Well-Being of U.S. Children Adopted From Foster Care, Privately From the United States and Internationally

“…The NSAP sample was drawn from the 2007 NSCH, which allowed us to incorporate measures from the NSCH questionnaire into our analyses by merging NSCH data onto NSAP records. The NSAP is described in the introduction to this issue (Bramlett & Radel, 2010); additional details about the merged NSAP and NSCH are available in a publication by Vandivere et al (2009).…”

“…The NSAP identifies three types of adoptions: (1) foster care, (2) private domestic, and (3) international; Bramlett and Radel (2010) describe how these categories are defined.…”

Family Trends and Transracial Adoption in the United States

“…This is a nationally representative subsample (n = 2,089) of adoptive parents drawn from the larger (n = 91,642) 2007 National Survey of Children's Health. (For details of the sampling process for the NSAP see Vandivere, Malm, &Radel, 2009, andBramlett &Radel, 2010).…”

Legal and Informal Adoption by Relatives in the U.S.: Comparative Characteristics and Well-Being from a Nationally Representative Sample

“…Data used in this analysis are from the National Survey of Adoptive Parents, 2007 (NSAP) and the National Survey of Children's Health, 2007 (NSCH), both of which were described in detail earlier in this volume and in their respective Design and Operation reports (Bramlett & Radel, 2010;Bramlett, Foster, Frasier, et al, 2010;Blumberg, Foster, Frasier, et al, forthcoming). The analytic sample for this study consists of children in legal and informal relative adoptions.…”

“…Not all NSAP-eligible households completed the NSAP interview; the interview completion rate among eligible households was 74.4% (for a detailed description of the overall response rates for NSCH and NSAP, see the introduction article to the special issue in this volume and the NSAP Design and operations report: Bramlett & Radel, 2010;Bramlett, Foster, Frasier, et al, 2010). Therefore, NSAP sampling weights have been adjusted for nonresponse to the NSAP so that the pool of NSAP completed interviews represents the same population of adopted children as the pool of NSAP-eligible NSCH respondents.…”