Philanthropic Behaviour of Quebecers

Abstract

Residents of Québec typically give less money and volunteer less time compared to residents of all other provinces. This article employs the most recent General Social Survey: Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2013) data set and Tobit procedures and finds that Quebeckers give less money largely because of smaller endowments of two important determinants, religiosity and household income. Once demographic and socioeconomic characteristics are controlled, Quebeckers' financial donations are comparable to those of residents of Ontario and Atlantic Canada and exceed those of residents of British Columbia. Quebeckers moreover are similar to others when it comes to volunteering for religious organizations, but they volunteer significantly less than others for secular organizations, which cannot be explained in this article. RÉSUMÉTypiquement, les résidents du Québec donnent moins d'argent et consacrent moins de temps au bénévolat que les résidents des autres provinces. Cet article, en recourant aux données provenant de la dernière « Enquête sociale générale : dons, bénévolat et participation, 2013 » et au modèle Tobit, conclut que les Québécois donnent moins d'argent en grande partie parce qu'ils ont des lacunes dans deux domaines importants, à savoir la religiosité et le revenu du ménage. Cependant, après un contrôle des caractéristiques démographiques et socioéconomiques, on constate que les dons de la part des Québécois sont au fait comparables à ceux des résidents de l'Ontario et des provinces de l'Atlantique et supérieures à ceux des résidents de la ColombieBritannique. D'autre part, les Québécois sont comparables aux résidents des autres provinces pour ce qui est du bénévolat dans les organismes religieux, mais ils font beaucoup moins de bénévolat dans les organismes séculaires, fait que cet article ne parvient pas à expliquer.

Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions

“…For example, diary and time use studies ask people to record how they use their time throughout the day and study the amount of time donated within larger time-use decisions (e.g., Havens and Schervish 2001). Other approaches include studying motivations for philanthropic behavior (e.g., Lam et al 2011;Devlin and Zhao 2017;Nelson et al 2018;Neumayr and Handy 2019;Radovanović 2019a;; volunteering and helping (Radovanović 2019c); helping orientation (e.g., Maki et al 2017); love and compassion (Sequera 2020); the role of emotions (e.g., Ugazio et al 2012); psychological influences on volunteering (e.g., Smith et al 2017); trust and confidence in institutions (e.g., Hager and Hedberg 2016); generational preferences (e.g., Cho et al 2018), and response influences from the length of the survey instrument (Steinberg et Relatedly, Smith et al (2010) studied motivations and benefits of volunteering among students by recruiting participants through universities and evaluating differences in student volunteering experiences by university. Many studies also investigate social group dynamics by examining how race and ethnicity intersect with philanthropy.…”