Statistics on Volunteering

Data reported by official sources, usually governments, around the world.

Of Course We Should Give Volunteer Firefighters a Tax Break, Jordan Golson, Wired

Doing Good by the Young and Old: Forty Years of American Volunteering, Robert T. Grimm, Jr. and Nathan Dietz, The Nonprofit Quarterly

Analysis of the 40 years of data about volunteering in America.

Evaluating by Comparisons: Watch out for the Traps!, Susan J. Ellis

A Great New Report to Praise, Criticize, and Use, Susan J. Ellis

It's Time to Start Counting Volunteers Seriously, Susan J. Ellis

Mystifying Data: Can America's Promise Get Away with It?, Susan J. Ellis

Statistics, Bikinis and Volunteers: The New Independent Sector Study on Giving and Volunteering, Susan J. Ellis

Troubling Numbers in Volunteering Rates, Paul Clolery, The NonProfit Times

Editorial on the data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Universal Standards vs. Your Own Situation, Susan J. Ellis

Value of Volunteering, Betsy McFarland

Wouldn't It Be Nice to Really Know, Susan J. Ellis

Youth Volunteering in the States: 2002 to 2009

By Emily Hoban Kirby, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, and Surbhi Godsay, from CIRCLE/Civic Youth.

, 2011, pp. 23

Corporation for National and Community Service Research and Policy Reports

http://www.nationalservice.gov/impact-our-nation/research-and-reports

Various reports and studies on volunteering in the US, especially on youth service and AmeriCorps.

Nonprofits Canada

http://sectorsource.ca/

Site with research findings and reports on the voluntary sector in Canada, with many items on volunteering.

Volunteering in America

http://www.nationalservice.gov/impact-our-nation/research-and-reports/volunteeri...

Interactive site from the Corporation for National and Community Service, offering six years of data on volunteering, rankings of states and cities, and volunteer trends and demographic information for every state and 162 large and mid-sized cities.

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