Volunteer growth in America : a review of trends since 1974 / Corporation for National and Community Service.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Grimm, Robert

Contributor:

Dietz, Nathan

Foster-Bey, John.

Corporation for National and Community Service (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young volunteers.

Voluntarism--United States.

Older volunteers.

Voluntarism.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Corporation for National and Community Service, [2006]

Summary:

"This research brief, Volunteer Growth in America: A Review of Trends Since 1974, provides an in-depth look at how volunteering compares by age groups for the period from 1974 to 2005. While previous reports released under our Volunteering in America series have looked at volunteering over the past four years, this report presents a historical view of volunteering through an analysis of data collected in 1974, 1989, and 2002-2005 from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a comprehensive and scientifically rigorous survey of 60,000 American households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to the two volunteer surveys administered in 1974 and 1989, the Census Bureau has administered a volunteer survey each year since September 2002 with the Corporation's support. It is our hope that this report will help us capitalize on Americans' interest in volunteering and generate more opportunities for people to begin or deepen their commitment to volunteering."--Page 1.

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on July 30, 2010).

"A research report in the Volunteering in America series."

"Authors: Robert Grimm, Jr., Nathan Dietz, and John Foster-Bey"--Page [2] of PDF cover screen.

"December 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11).

OCLC:

76892240