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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
http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov
New (2008) interactive site from the Corporation for National and Community Servixce, 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.
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 2007
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 Survey 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
Volunteering in Michigan:
http://ippsr.msu.edu/Publications/bp9722.pdf
Outside US
Australia: Data
on Voluntary Work
Compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
2004: http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/
FB695E5561614AB6CA256DFF007802C6
and
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/
C6BF68E57D3A308CCA256E21007686F8
Australia: Volunteering in Western Australia
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":
United Kingdom:
Visit the Institute for Volunteering Research website http://www.ivr.org.uk for research bulletins, publications, and more.
MMult
Multi-Country
Resources for Research in Volunteerism
http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/resources/research-reports/global.html
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/cv/research/rsta19.html
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