48. New Statistics on Volunteering & Civic Life with Dr Mary Hyde
Volunteer Nation
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The Most Recent Volunteering in Civic Life in America Survey
The CEV survey is based on decades of scholarship, including a 2014 report by the National Academy of Sciences that gathered experts in this field to develop recommendations about how to measure these behaviors. It captures a broad range of civic behaviors from more traditional activities like charitable giving to more recent trends like buying or boycotting products based on social values. The specific question or measure is, in the past 12 months, how often did you or your neighbors do favors for each other such as house sitting, watching each other's children, lending tools and other things to help each other? So this is the gold standard on this topic.
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