Statistics on Volunteering

United States | Outside US  | Multi-Country

World Volunteer Web -- International Research Studies

http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/resources/research-reports/national.html

Extensive -- and intriguing -- list of studies on volunteerism in dozens of countries around the developed and developing world, compiled by this site run through United Nations Volunteers.

 

United States

Volunteering in America:  State Trends and Rankings 2002-2005

http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/fileadmin/docdb/pdf/2006/VIA_fullreport.pdf

Published by the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2006.

Volunteering in the United States 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/volun.toc.htm or download as a PDF: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/volun.pdf 
Annual report compiled by the US Department of Labor and released each December (since 2002). Based on new data collected in a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS).  See the USA Freedom Corps site for a description of the "Volunteer Service Indicator" used.

Independent Sector Giving and Volunteering Study, 2001 Westat survey results - Note significant changes in survey methodology explained on page 4!
http://www.independentsector.org/PDFs/GV01keyfind.pdf

 

Independent Sector Survey on Teen Volunteering:
http://www.independentsector.org/programs/research/teenvolun1.pdf

AARP Surveys on Volunteering by Older Americans:

2003: Time and Money: An In-Depth Look at 45+ Volunteers and Donors: http://research.aarp.org/general/multic_2003.html

1997: http://research.aarp.org/general/civic_inv1.html

Volunteering in Michigan:
http://ippsr.msu.edu/Publications/bp9722.pdf

Volunteering in Minnesota
http://www.mtn.org/mca/factspgs/volunteering.html

Outside US

Australia: Data on Voluntary Work

Compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 

2001: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/
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2004:  http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/

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http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/

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Australia:  Volunteering in Western Australia

http://www.volunteer.org.au/

Australia: Volunteering in Victoria Fact Sheet (Australia, 2005)

 

For information on this topic specifically relating to the Australasian region please visit our friends at OzVPM:

http://www.ozvpm.com/resourcebank/resource_statisticaldata.htm

Canada:  Survey on Volunteering and Giving

The Canadian Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective

http://nonprofitscan.imaginecanada.ca/files/en/misc/jhu_report_en.pdf

Includes a good bit of data on Canadian volunteering.  Published 2005 by Imagine Canada.

http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/
freepub/71-542-XIE/71-542-XIE.pdf

http://www.givingandvolunteering.ca/
Various reports from the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating in Canada

Patterns of Volunteering Over the Life Cycle, by Kevin Selbee and Paul B. Reed, Statistics Canada (2001)

Singapore:  2004 Survey on Volunteering
http://www.nvpc.org.sg/Library/Documents/ResearchReports/survey2004.pdf

Switzerland

          Two 2005 articles on "Switzerland is a nation of volunteers":

• http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect =106&sid=5825383&cKey=1117294996000

• http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect =106&sid=5047355

United Kingdom:

Summary of Volunteering: http://www.etwelfare.com/Country/UK-Nat.htm

Volunteering Facts and Figures: http://www.ivr.org.uk/facts.htm

          The Economic Value of Formal Volunteering

           http://www.ivr.org.uk/economic.htm

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Multi-Country

Resources for Research in Volunteerism

http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/research/index.htm

World Volunteer Web (UNV) provides links to international volunteer-related research studies, institutes, and journals, plus toolkits for conducting statistical surveys.

Summary of giving and volunteering in 5 countries:
http://www.charityvillage.com/ charityvillage/research/rsta19.html

10/18/07

 

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