Table 8
Donor rate and total amount of donations, by solicitation method or way of giving, population aged 15 and over, 2010

Table 8
Donor rate and total amount of donations, by solicitation method or way of giving, population aged 15 and over, 2010
Table summary
This table displays the results of donor rate and total amount of donations. The information is grouped by solicitation method or way of giving,(appearing as row header) and by donor rate, and total amount of donations (appearing as column headers), calculated using percentage and thousands of dollars as units of measure.
Solicitation method or way of giving	Donor rate	Total amount of donations
Solicitation method or way of giving	percentage	thousands of dollars	percentage
Total	84	10,609,533	100
Mail request	23	1,514,108	14
Charity event	23	1,071,836	10
In memoriam donation	21	601,101	6
At work	22	620,207	6
Door-to-door canvassing	26	244,797	2
At shopping centre or on street	32	185,365	2
Telephone request	5	129,376	1
In a place of worship	30	3,933,658	37
Television or radio request	8	204,300	2
On one's own	10	929,499	9
Donating stocks or options	0^E	F	F
Sponsoring someone	30	363,032	3
Other solicitation method	8	636,664	6
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note: Cumulative amounts may vary from one variable to the next due to missing values. Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, 2010.

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