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Activity Number:
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511
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #301912 |
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Title:
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Charactering the Propensity To Volunteer in America
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Author(s):
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Shelton Jones*+ and David Weitzenkamp and Kathleen Jordan and Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez and John Foster-Bey and Annette Green
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Companies:
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RTI International and RTI International and RTI International and RTI International and Corporation for National and Community Service and RTI International
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Address:
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PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709,
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Keywords:
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synthetic design variables ; pseudo design variables ; volunteering ; estimation using CPS data
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Abstract:
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The Volunteer Supplement of the Current Population Survey database is used to answer questions relative to the volunteering of the American Baby Boomer population. This population consists of individuals born between 1946 and 1964. As of 2006, persons in this age group represents more than 26 percent of the U.S. population and obviously makes considerable contributions to many organizations and services by volunteering. Using the Volunteer Supplement, we will present many characteristics of Baby Boomer volunteering, describe distinctions between them and other generations, and describe how their volunteering is changing over time. Synthetic design variables were created to estimate sampling variance and logistic regression used to show that strong predictors of volunteerism can be determined from home ownership, business ownership, and voting frequency.
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