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The German Survey on Volunteering (FWS) is a representative telephone survey of voluntary activities of persons aged 14 and older in Germany. Since 1999, information on volunteering and its context, extent and motives as well as on donations and the willingness to volunteer have been collected every five years. Apart from volunteers, respondents who are not or no longer volunteering are surveyed extensively. A wide range of background sociodemographic characteristics are collected to allow for detailed analyses. The Survey on Volunteering provides a substantial database for the description and analysis of volunteering in Germany. Edited and documented data are currently available for scientific research purposes by the Research Data Centre of the German Centre of Gerontology (FDZ-DZA) but will be hosted exclusively by GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences in the course of 2023. This paper presents the Survey on Volunteering in its research aims, survey design, contents, and analytical potential. Furthermore, Scientifics Use Files (SUFs) and their wide range of documentation material are presented to potential data users.
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Soziale Welt 74.2023, 2, Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2023, (2023), Seite 294-314
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year:2023
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pages:294-314
Language:
German
DOI:
10.5771/0038-6073-2023-2-294
Author information:
Simonson, Julia 1974-
Author information:
Kelle, Nadiya 1983-
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