There are six main tables in the analyses:
2000
Table 5
Shows the percentages of panel members who ever participated in the forms of community volunteer work by the various characteristics of respondents. Tables A1 and A2 (in the Appendix) show the corresponding results separately for young men and women. Table A3 shows the types of community volunteer activity listed mentioned under "other".
Table 6
Shows the percentages of panel members who participated in community volunteer work at least once a month by their various personal characteristics. Tables A4 and A5 show the corresponding results separately for men and women.
Table 7
Provides multivariate analyses of the influences on regular participation in community volunteer work, that is, on the likelihood that panel members participate in community volunteer work at least once a month. The various analyses identify the unique effects of particular respondent characteristics on regular participation controlling for other respondent characteristics.
2001
Table 8
Shows the percentages of panel members who participated in the forms of community volunteer work in the last year by the various characteristics of respondents. Tables A6 and A7 (in Appendix 1) show the corresponding results for men and women, respectively. Table A8 shows the types of community volunteer activity listed mentioned under "other".
Table 9
Shows the percentages of panel members who participated in community volunteer work at least once a month by their various personal characteristics. The corresponding results for men and women are shown in Tables A9 and A10, respectively.
Table 10
Provides multivariate analyses of the influences on regular participation in community volunteer work, that is, on the likelihood that panel members participate in community volunteer work at least once a month. The various analyses identify the unique effects of particular respondent characteristics on regular participation controlling for other respondent characteristics.
More detailed discussion of the analyses and the structure of each table is provided in the section Notes to Tables. The Supplementary Tables to this report provide more detailed analyses. Tables A1 and A2 present the results of Table 5 separately for young men and women. Similarly Tables A4 and A5, Tables A6 and A7 and Tables A9 and A10 provide gender breakdowns of the results in Tables 6, 8 and 9, respectively. Tables A3 and A8 provide a detailed breakdown of responses to the Other category contained in Tables 5 and 7, respectively.
Tables 2 and 3 focus on the question How much? – what is the incidence and frequency of participation in volunteer work by young people, as well as the types of volunteer work in which they are participating. Tables 5 and 6 and Tables 8 and 9 address the question of Who? – which categories of young people are more likely to participate in volunteer work and how frequently.
Tables 7 and 10 present results for the models that underlie the analyses.