News Analysis: Damn lies and volunteer statistics

Third Sector, 23 January 2008

When three surveys disagree on uptake levels, you have to look at the definitions, writes Indira Das-Gupta.

Sector think tank nfpSynergy ruffled a few feathers earlier this month when it published its latest survey, which showed that volunteering was not on the rise, despite high-profile government initiatives to boost it. The survey of a representative sample of 1,000 people over 16 years of age, interviewed three times...

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