Research on Giving and Volunteering: Methodological Considerations

O'Neill, M

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“…Most surveys have looked only at formal volunteering in detail, sometimes addressing informal volunteering with one general question. O'Neill (2001) has issued a call for more attention to the measurement of informal volunteering, as well as to the interactions between informal and formal volunteering.…”

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Measurement of Volunteering: A Methodological Study Using Indiana as a Test Case

Steinberg¹,

Rooney

Chin

2002

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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How much does survey methodology matter when measuring volunteering? Every 4 years, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University conducts a telephone survey (called "Indiana Gives") How do you measure volunteering? It seems to be a straightforward question. But in the United States at least, the most frequently used methods of measuring giving and volunteering-most of which are based on surveys-produce surprisingly disparate results. Most researchers agree that more precise ways of estimating how much time and money people give are needed. This issue is important because many fund-raisers, nonprofit leaders, and public policy makers often use such estimates to understand how much and why people do volunteer work and how and why they donate to charity, as well as to see how Note: The authors would like to thank Paul Schervish, who helped design the overall study, and Brian Vargus and the Public Opinion Laboratory at IUPUI for helping with the data collection. We also would like to acknowledge Richard Steinberg and Mark Wilhelm for their invaluable input. An earlier version of this article was presented at ARNOVA, and we would like to thank the session members for several good suggestions.

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Measurement of Volunteering: A Methodological Study Using Indiana as a Test Case

Steinberg¹,

Rooney

Chin

2002

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…We then perform several multivariate analyses (as suggested by O'Neill, 2001) to see whether any differences in mean values for giving and/or volunteering across modules can be explained by variations in sample characteristics, or appear to be pure effects of the module administered.…”

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“…There is some preliminary evidence that minorities are disproportionately involved in informal philanthropy (e.g., B. Smith et al, 1999); however, more attention to this phenomenon is needed in survey research to understand this type of charitable behavior (Havens & Schervish, 2001;O'Neill, 2001). Wilson (2000) demonstrated that besides human capital, there may be compensating factors in the form of social resources and cultural understandings that motivate minority group members to give and volunteer differently than the majority group.…”

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The Effects of Race, Gender, and Marital Status on Giving and Volunteering in Indiana

Mesch

Rooney

Steinberg

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…Recent empirical research suggests that women appear to be more charitable than men (e.g., Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001;Bolton and Katok, 1995); however, race differences only lately have begun to receive serious study (O'Neill, 2001;Conley, 2000;Musick et al, 2000). We examine these effects of race and gender across different survey methodologies.…”

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“…Several studies have found that racial differences in giving and volunteering disappear after controlling for education, income, and occupational status (e.g., Mesch et al, 2002;O'Neill, 2001;Clary et al, 1996). Conley (2000) found that the black-white gap is eliminated, controlling for human capital differences.…”

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The effects of race, gender, and survey methodologies on giving in the US

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This study examines the effects of race and gender on philanthropy and interaction effects between race or gender and survey methodologies. Results indicate differences in philanthropic behaviors by gender but not by race. We also find significant interaction effects between survey methodologies and race and gender, which may have important implications for social science research in which race and/or gender explain or predict behaviors. Economic theory dictates that public goods and goods with large externalities can lead to market failures that can be ameliorated by taxes, subsidies, or regulation. Private philanthropy can play an important role in addressing these market failures, especially for smaller, less politically powerful groups (Weisbrod, 1975) whose preferences are not reflected in the outcomes of majority voting. Conditional on their ability to overcome free riding, marginalized groups, such as women and minorities, can use the nonprofit sector as a substitute for government-supplied public goods. We test whether race and/or gender affects charitable giving by American households as measured under commonly adopted survey methodologies.

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Research on Giving and Volunteering: Methodological Considerations

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Cited by 30 publications

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Measurement of Volunteering: A Methodological Study Using Indiana as a Test Case

Measurement of Volunteering: A Methodological Study Using Indiana as a Test Case

The Effects of Race, Gender, and Marital Status on Giving and Volunteering in Indiana

The effects of race, gender, and survey methodologies on giving in the US

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