Are We Too Busy to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Time and Volunteering Using the 1997 Abs Time Use Data

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ID11228436
AutoresJeni Warburton (0000-0002-1241-4169, autor correspondente), Tim Crosier
Ano2001
Volume36
Fascículo4
Páginas295-314
Data de publicação2001-11-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.2001.tb01104.x
OpenAlexW1583457882
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas15

Time availability is a key concept in relation to volunteering, leading to organisations and governments targeting those outside paid work as a potential source of volunteers, it may be that factors such as a growth in female participation in the labour market and an increase in work hours will lead to more people saying they are simply too busy to volunteer. This paper discusses how social and economic change, such as changing work patterns, are impacting on time availability. Using the 1997 ABS Time Use data, it identifies a predictive model of spare time by looking at demographic, life stage and employment related variables. Results confirm that those outside paid work, particularly the young, males and those without partners or children, are the groups most likely to have time to spare. These groups do not currently report high rates of volunteering. The paper concludes by questioning the premise that people will volunteer simply because they have time to spare. This is just one component of a range of motivations and factors that influence the decision to volunteer

Business · Economics · Operations management · Political science · Premise · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Spare part · Spare time · Volunteer · Volunteer work · Work (physics · Work time · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Marketing