Volunteering in Canada: Challenges and opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic - ARCHIVED
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Older generations are more likely than younger generations to be self-isolating and limiting their volunteer activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the pandemic has had a series of impacts that vary depending on the type of volunteer organization. Physical distancing and necessary health protection measures quickly affected the provision of face-to-face services, events and meetings involving gatherings of people. At the same time, recent media reports have highlighted many examples of individuals directly assisting others, including picking-up and dropping-off groceries and other supplies in the community, cooking meals, sewing non-medical masks, sharing information and providing emotional support via online social media platforms.
Using data from the 2018 General Social Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating (GSS GVP), this article documents how people of various generations contribute to volunteering in Canada. Although these data predate the COVID-19 pandemic, they provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of volunteering in the current situation.
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- Public use microdata: 2018 General Social Survey (Cycle 33): Giving, Volunteering and Participating Public Use Microdata File Documentation and User Guide
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by age group
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by education
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by family income
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by gender
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by labour force status
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by marital status
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by presence of children in household
- Tables: Donor rate and average annual donations, by religious attendance
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and age group
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and education
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and family income
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and gender
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and labour force status
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and marital status
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and presence of children in household
- Tables: Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and religious attendance
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