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EUROSTAT DATA ON VOLUNTEERING (POTENTIAL AND GAPS)

Agnieszka LitwinskaUnit F4 Quality of lifeEurostat

Surveys in which some information on volunteering was collected

•Time Use Survey

•EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (2006

ad hoc module),

•Adult Education Survey,

EU-SILC ad hoc module 2006 on social participation and AES (optional)•Participation and frequency (Daily, Every week,

Several times a month, Once a month, 5 At least once a year (less than once a month)

in the last 12 months in:•informal voluntary activities (private) voluntary activities to help someone. It includes cooking for others; taking care of people in hospitals/at home; taking people for a walk, shopping… It excludes any activity that a respondent undertakes for his/her household, in his/her work or within voluntary organizations).

•activities of political parties or trade unions (If the respondent, during the last twelve months, participated in activities related to political groups, political association, political parties or trade unions. Participating in formal strikes/demonstrations is not included.

EU-SILC ad hoc module 2006 on social participation and AES (optional)

Participation in:•activities of professional associations (activities related to a professional association. Receiving training organised by such association is excluded).

•activities of churches or other religious organisations (activities related to churches, religious communions or associations. Attending holy masses or similar religious acts or helping during these services is also included.)

•activities of recreational groups or organisations (recreational/leisure activities arranged by a club, association or similar. It can be sport groups, hobby associations, or leisure clubs.)

EU-SILC ad hoc module 2006 on social participation and AES (optional)

Participation in:•activities of charitable organisations (participation in the unpaid work of charitable organisations groups or clubs, includes unpaid charitable work for churches, religious groups, humanitarian organisations)

•activities of other groups or organisations (activities of environmental organisations, civil right groups, neighbourhood associations, peace groups etc.)

•Attending meetings connected with these activities is always included.

Time Use Survey

•4 VOLUNTARY WORK AND MEETINGS• 41 ORGANISATIONAL WORK (Working as a volunteer

free of charge or for a minor fee),

• 42 INFORMAL HELP TO OTHER HOUSEHOLDS (Direct help given by the respondent to another household and not arranged by an organisation),

• 43 PARTICIPATORY ACTIVITIES (Attending meetings free of charge or for a minor fee)

Time Use Survey

•43 PARTICIPATORY ACTIVITIES

431 Meetings (e.g. organised programme in a scout camp, political party meeting),

432 Religious activities (e.g. visiting church, synagogue, mosque or other temple, participating in religious ceremonies like weddings, funerals),

433 Other or unspecified participatory activities (e.g. voting, witness in court, donating blood)

not relevant ?

Time Use Survey

41 ORGANISATIONAL WORKNot distinguished categories covering for instance: Work for groups and associations, as well as work for school and kindergarten and neighbourhood groups, etc.Work as a committee member.Administrative work.Preparing activities, work for events.Baking, etc. for the organisation, working in the canteen.Repairs and other odd jobs for the organisation.Voluntary fire brigade.Bookkeeping for clubs

Time Use Survey

42 INFORMAL HELP TO OTHER HOUSEHOLDS

421 Construction and repairs as help (e.g. helped repair the neighbour’s roof, made a toy for the grandchildren),422 Help in employment and farming (e.g. help with milking, tending cattle/cows/calves, helped on my uncle’s farm), 423 Care of own children living in another household (e.g. taking care, over the weekend, of own child usually living with ex-partner), 424 Other childcare as help to another household (e.g. unpaid child minding, Had a look at grandchildren),

Time Use Survey

42 INFORMAL HELP TO OTHER HOUSEHOLDS

425 Help to an adult of another household (e.g. went with my mother to the doctor, help to my disabled or sick sister entertained my disabled or sick friend),429 Other or unspecified informal help to another household (e.g. Help to another household with activities that are included in 31 Food management, in 32 Household upkeep or 33 Making and care for textiles, in 34 Gardening and pet care, in 36 Shopping and services or in 37 Household management).

Participation rate in voluntary activities (TUS 2000) results

Participation time (per day –participants) (hh:mm)

(TUS 2000) results

Time spent of voluntary activities – per day, all respondents (hh:mm)

(TUS 2000) results

Informal help to other households Participation rate different days of the week

Organisational workParticipation rate, different days of the week

Time Use Survey-CharacteristicsThe data collected on the basis of a gentlemen's agreement every 10 years based on the HETUS manual

•Statistical unit: persons, households and time.•14 European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Finland, United Kingdom and Norway.•Data for Sweden are available: https://www.h2.scb.se/tus/tus/default.htm •Populations covered in the countries for which data are available:•Italy: 3+; Bulgaria: 7+; United Kingdom: 8+; Norway: 9-79,•Germany, Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Finland: 10+; •Belgium: 12+; France: 15+; Poland: 15+;

Potential: -Quite a lot of data already available (rates, duration) from the Time Use Survey 2000 and forthcoming 2010 data collection, -Participation rates and frequency available from the EU SILC ahm for all the EU Member States

Gaps: -No full EU coverage for the TUS, -Activities types quite aggregated,-No measurement of the work volume or value