Introduction

Volunteering Statistics: The concept of volunteering is essential in building communities and providing services that many organizations cannot afford. It also provides the volunteers with a sense of achievement. In the year 2024, there are so many people devoting their time and energy to different endeavors, which tells a lot about the importance of volunteering in this present age.

This article provides the fundamental volunteering statistics for the year 2024 while focusing on the benefits of this act to time, population, and money used.

This statistic displays the percentage of the population volunteering in the U.S. from 2008 to 2023. Between September 2022 and September 2023, about 28.3 percent of adults in America were volunteering, a significant increase from the low rates seen in 2020 and 2021.

In 2023, around 16.06 million people in Germany did volunteer work. Numbers peaked in 2020 at over 17 million. This statistic shows how many people in Germany volunteered from 2019 to 2023.The Allensbach Market and Advertising Media Analysis (Allensbacher Markt- und Werbeträgeranalyse or AWA in German) determines attitudes, consumer habits and media usage of the population in Germany on a broad statistical basis.

Volunteer Opportunities and Finding Organizations.

Abstract

The Volunteer Activities Survey (VAS) is a household-based survey conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). The VAS collects information on the volunteer activities of individuals aged 15 years and older in South Africa. The respondents were selected from households who took part in the second quarter Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS). Volunteer activities covers unpaid non-compulsory work; that is, the time individuals give without pay to activities performed either through an organization or directly for others outside their own household.

Data on volunteering provides important information on skills application, social network development, social capital and quality of life outcomes. The main aim of the survey is to provide information on the scale of volunteer work and bring into view the sizeable part of the labour force that is invisible in existing labour statistics. The objectives of the VAS are:

• To collect reliable data about people who are involved in volunteer activities. • To identify organization-based and direct volunteering. • To give a profile of those engaged in volunteer activities. • To estimate the economic value of volunteer work.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Households and individuals

Universe

The target population of the survey consists of individuals aged 15 years and older who live in South Africa and who are members of households living in dwellings that have been selected to take part in the second quarter Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS).

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) sample frame was used for data collection in the VAS. The sample for the QLFS is based on a stratified two-stage design with probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling of primary sampling units (PSUs) in the first stage, and sampling of dwelling units (DUs) with systematic sampling in the second stage. The frame was developed as a general-purpose household survey frame that can be used by all other household surveys irrespective of the sample size requirement of the survey. The sample is based on information collected by Statistics SA during the 2001 Population Census and is designed to be representative at the provincial level and within provinces at the metro/non-metro level. Within the metros, the sample is further distributed by geography type. The four geography types are: urban formal, urban informal, farms and tribal land.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The 2018 VAS questionnaire consists of the following sections: - Particulars of the dwelling - Households at selected dwelling unit - Response details - Main activities

This dataset reports statistics on volunteers in the Kansas City metro area. The data is from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Cultural volunteer statistical data from the Ministry of Culture survey.

Youth Agency Youth Voluntary Service System accumulates data on youth volunteering in host organisations. The Authority shall provide data to be collected from 2018 and updated. scheduled daily. The data collects host organizations name and address, year of application for volunteering, accepted, number and amount of rejected normal applications, applications for membership numbers as a curator and mentor.

Volunteer rate and distribution of volunteer hours, population aged 15 and over, age group, 2013.

In 2022, the share of people volunteering in an association in France was higher among people aged 65 to 79. Indeed, nearly one-third (32 percent) of French people aged 70-74 volunteered in an association, as did 27 percent of 75-79 year olds, and 24 percent of 65-69 year olds. In contrast, only 14 percent of those aged 45-49 volunteered in an association. Between 2010 and 2022, with the exception of 2019, the proportion of men volunteering in an association in France was higher than that of women.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Volunteer (RV) Data Set

A comprehensive dataset characterizing healthy research volunteers in terms of clinical assessments, mood-related psychometrics, cognitive function neuropsychological tests, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), along with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and a comprehensive magnetoencephalography battery (MEG).

In addition, blood samples are currently banked for future genetic analysis. All data collected in this protocol are broadly shared in the OpenNeuro repository, in the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) format. In addition, task paradigms and basic pre-processing scripts are shared on GitHub. This dataset is unprecedented in its depth of characterization of a healthy population and will allow a wide array of investigations into normal cognition and mood regulation.

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) v1.0 License.

Release Notes

Release v2.0.0

This release includes data collected between 2020-06-03 (cut-off date for v1.0.0) and 2024-04-01. Notable changes in this release:

1. 769 new participants have been added along with re-evaluation data for 15 participants. Total unique participants count is now 1859.
2. visit and age_at_visit columns added to phenotype files to distinguish between visits and intervals between them.
3. Follow-up online survey data included.
4. Replaced Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) with General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD7) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ9) surveys, respectively.
5. Discontinued the Perceived Health rating survey.
6. Added Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ) and Big Five personality survey to online screening questionnaires.
7. MRI:
   • Replaced ADNI-3 resting state sequence with a multi-echo sequence with higher spatial resolution.
   • Replaced field map scans with a shorter reversed-blipped EPI scan.
8. MEG:
   • Some participants have 6-minute empty room data instead of the shorter duration empty room acquisition.

See the CHANGES file for complete version-wise changelog.

Participant Eligibility

To be eligible for the study, participants need to be medically healthy adults over 18 years of age with the ability to read, speak and understand English. All participants provided electronic informed consent for online pre-screening, and written informed consent for all other procedures. Participants with a history of mental illness or suicidal or self-injury thoughts or behavior are excluded. Additional exclusion criteria include current illicit drug use, abnormal medical exam, and less than an 8th grade education or IQ below 70. Current NIMH employees, or first degree relatives of NIMH employees are prohibited from participating. Study participants are recruited through direct mailings, bulletin boards and listservs, outreach exhibits, print advertisements, and electronic media.

Clinical Measures

All potential volunteers visit the study website, check a box indicating consent, and fill out preliminary screening questionnaires. The questionnaires include basic demographics, the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0), the DSM-5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure, the DSM-5 Level 2 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure - Substance Use, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, and a brief clinical history checklist. The WHODAS 2.0 is a 15 item questionnaire that assesses overall general health and disability, with 14 items distributed over 6 domains: cognition, mobility, self-care, “getting along”, life activities, and participation. The DSM-5 Level 1 cross-cutting measure uses 23 items to assess symptoms across diagnoses, although an item regarding self-injurious behavior was removed from the online self-report version. The DSM-5 Level 2 cross-cutting measure is adapted from the NIDA ASSIST measure, and contains 15 items to assess use of both illicit drugs and prescription drugs without a doctor’s prescription. The AUDIT is a 10 item screening assessment used to detect harmful levels of alcohol consumption, and the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory is a systematic assessment of handedness. These online results do not contain any personally identifiable information (PII). At the conclusion of the questionnaires, participants are prompted to send an email to the study team. These results are reviewed by the study team, who determines if the participant is appropriate for an in-person interview.

Participants who meet all inclusion criteria are scheduled for an in-person screening visit to determine if there are any further exclusions to participation. At this visit, participants receive a History and Physical exam, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Disorders (SCID-5), the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition (KBIT-2). The purpose of these cognitive and psychometric tests is two-fold. First, these measures are designed to provide a sensitive test of psychopathology. Second, they provide a comprehensive picture of cognitive functioning, including mood regulation. The SCID-5 is a structured interview, administered by a clinician, that establishes the absence of any DSM-5 axis I disorder. The KBIT-2 is a brief (20 minute) assessment of intellectual functioning administered by a trained examiner. There are three subtests, including verbal knowledge, riddles, and matrices.

Biological and physiological measures

Biological and physiological measures are acquired, including blood pressure, pulse, weight, height, and BMI. Blood and urine samples are taken and a complete blood count, acute care panel, hepatic panel, thyroid stimulating hormone, viral markers (HCV, HBV, HIV), c-reactive protein, creatine kinase, urine drug screen and urine pregnancy tests are performed. In addition, three additional tubes of blood samples are collected and banked for future analysis, including genetic testing.

Imaging Studies

Participants were given the option to enroll in optional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies.

MRI

On the same visit as the MRI scan, participants are administered a subset of tasks from the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery. The four tasks asses attention and executive functioning (Flanker Inhibitory Control and Attention Task), executive functioning (Dimensional Change Card Sort Task), episodic memory (Picture Sequence Memory Task), and working memory (List Sorting Working Memory Task). The MRI protocol used was initially based on the ADNI-3 basic protocol, but was later modified to include portions of the ABCD protocol in the following manner:

1. The T1 scan from ADNI3 was replaced by the T1 scan from the ABCD protocol.
2. The Axial T2 2D FLAIR acquisition from ADNI2 was added, and fat saturation turned on.
3. Fat saturation was turned on for the pCASL acquisition.
4. The high-resolution in-plane hippocampal 2D T2 scan was removed, and replaced with the whole brain 3D T2 scan from the ABCD protocol (which is resolution and bandwidth matched to the T1 scan).
5. The slice-select gradient reversal method was turned on for DTI acquisition, and reconstruction interpolation turned off.
6. Scans for distortion correction were added (reversed-blip scans for DTI and resting state scans).
7. The 3D FLAIR sequence was made optional, and replaced by one where the prescription and other acquisition parameters provide resolution and geometric correspondence between the T1 and T2 scans.

MEG

The optional MEG studies were added to the protocol approximately one year after the study was initiated, thus there are relatively fewer MEG recordings in comparison to the MRI dataset. MEG studies are performed on a 275 channel CTF MEG system. The position of the head was localized at the beginning and end of the recording using three fiducial coils. These coils were placed 1.5 cm above the nasion, and at each ear, 1.5 cm from the tragus on a line between the tragus and the outer canthus of the eye. For some participants, photographs were taken of the three coils and used to mark the points on the T1 weighted structural MRI scan for co-registration. For the remainder of the participants, a BrainSight neuro-navigation unit was used to coregister the MRI, anatomical fiducials, and localizer coils directly prior to MEG data acquisition.

Specific Survey and Test Data within Data Set

NOTE: In the release 2.0 of the dataset, two measures Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ) and Big Five personality survey were added to the online screening questionnaires. Also, for the in-person screening visit, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were replaced with the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD7) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ9) surveys, respectively. The Perceived Health rating survey was discontinued.

1. Preliminary Online Screening Questionnaires

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A list of volunteer opportunities, organized by event, category of event type, organization and location. Update Frequency: As needed

Captures the number of people actively volunteering at Adelaide City Council and the number of hours worked.

Describe the accomplishments of the volunteer services promoted by the municipal social department in the first and second half of the year.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Senior Volunteer Program 545

Disaster Healthcare Volunteers (DHV) is a program that registers and credentials health professionals who may wish to volunteer during disaster including doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, dentists, mental health practitioners, etc. DHV may be used by local officials to support a variety of local needs, including augmenting medical staff at healthcare facilities or supporting mass vaccination clinics. DHV is California’s Emergency System for the Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP). This dataset lists the number of volunteers by their organizations.

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Financial overview and grant giving statistics of The Volunteer Center

The Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and Volunteering (CEV) Supplement is the most robust longitudinal survey about volunteerism and other forms of civic engagement in the United States. Produced by AmeriCorps in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, the CEV takes the pulse of our nation’s civic health every two years. The data on this page was collected in September 2017. The CEV can generate reliable estimates at the national level, within states and the District of Columbia, and in the largest twelve Metropolitan Statistical Areas to support evidence-based decision making and efforts to understand how people make a difference in communities across the country. This page was updated on January 16, 2025 to ensure consistency across all waves of CEV data. Click on "Export" to download and review an excerpt from the 2017 CEV Analytic Codebook that shows the variables available in the analytic CEV datasets produced by AmeriCorps. Click on "Show More" to download and review the following 2017 CEV data and resources provided as attachments: 1) CEV FAQs – answers to frequently asked technical questions about the CEV 2) Constructs and measures in the CEV 3) 2017 CEV Analytic Data and Setup Files – analytic dataset in Stata (.dta), R (.rdata), SPSS (.sav), and Excel (.csv) formats, codebook for analytic dataset, and Stata code (.do) to convert raw dataset to analytic formatting produced by AmeriCorps. 4) 2017 CEV Technical Documentation – codebook for raw dataset and full supplement documentation produced by U.S. Census Bureau 5) 2017 CEV Raw Data and Read In Files – raw dataset in Stata (.dta) format, Stata code (.do) and dictionary file (.dct) to read ASCII dataset (.dat) into Stata using layout files (.lis)