Volunteering
Single Wave Study
General Information
Title
Volunteering
Abstract
In December 2011, the Immigrant
panel was presented the questionnaire regarding volunteering with
the aim of gaining insight into the effect of thinking about volunteering on the
willingness to engage in all kinds of situations.
Respondents were randomly assigned to one of three conditions.
In condition 1 respondents were asked to think about a situation in which they had helped another person.
In condition 2 respondents were asked to remember a situation in which they had thought or talked about volunteers and their various reasons to do voluntary work.
In condition 3 respondents were asked to remember one of their typical days.
Respondents described these situations and were asked a few questions about the described situation.
At the end of the questionnaire respondents were presented with all sorts of statements about (helping) behavior. They were asked to indicate to what extent they would be willing to engage in that behavior.
Respondents were randomly assigned to one of three conditions.
In condition 1 respondents were asked to think about a situation in which they had helped another person.
In condition 2 respondents were asked to remember a situation in which they had thought or talked about volunteers and their various reasons to do voluntary work.
In condition 3 respondents were asked to remember one of their typical days.
Respondents described these situations and were asked a few questions about the described situation.
At the end of the questionnaire respondents were presented with all sorts of statements about (helping) behavior. They were asked to indicate to what extent they would be willing to engage in that behavior.
Longitudinal Type
Single Wave Study
Begin date
05-12-2011
End date
26-12-2011
Note
Purpose
Topics
Researcher
Aydinli, A., Van De Vijver, F.J.R.
Publisher
CentERdata
Copyright
© 2012 CentERdata
Funding Organization
CentERdata/MESS Project
Cross-Cultural Psychology at Tilburg University
Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
Cross-Cultural Psychology at Tilburg University
Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zw4-rtd9
Datasets and documentation
View Documentation
Codebook in English
Codebook in Dutch
Data Files
Variables
| Variable name | Variable Label | Variable Type |
|---|---|---|
| nomem_encr | Number of household member encrypted | preloaded |
| fw11a_m | Year and month of the field work period | constructed |
| fw11a001 | Memory task | constructed |
| fw11a002 | How positive were your feelings in the situation that you just described? | directly measured |
| fw11a003 | Did you have the feeling that in the situation you just described everything went as you wanted? | directly measured |
| fw11a004 | Did you think about whether or not to help for a long time before you actually started helping? | directly measured |
| fw11a005 | How much have you talked or thought about volunteers and their reasons to do voluntary work in the situation described? | directly measured |
| fw11a006 | How important was it for you to talk or think about volunteers and their reasons to do voluntary work in the situation described? | directly measured |
| fw11a007 | After the situation that you just described, have you thought again about volunteers and their reasons to do voluntary work? | directly measured |
| fw11a008 | How vivid is your memory of this day? | directly measured |
| fw11a009 | Did any extraordinary things happen that day? | directly measured |
| fw11a010 | Please indicate the date of the day: year | directly measured |
| fw11a011 | Please indicate the date of the day: month | directly measured |
| fw11a012 | Please indicate the date of the day: day | directly measured |
| fw11a013 | Teach a group of children how to read | directly measured |
| fw11a014 | Call the firefighters when I see fumes coming out of a forest | directly measured |
| fw11a015 | Climb a very high mountain | directly measured |
| fw11a016 | Donate blood | directly measured |
| fw11a017 | Assist someone to pick up a pile of books that he/she has just dropped | directly measured |
| fw11a018 | Visit a nursing home and spend time with elderly people | directly measured |
| fw11a019 | Put a letter that has just fallen out of a mailbox back into the mailbox | directly measured |
| fw11a020 | Do a crossword puzzle | directly measured |
| fw11a021 | Take part in a charity event | directly measured |
| fw11a022 | Do voluntary work in which you can take care of other people | directly measured |
| fw11a023 | Help a blind person cross the street | directly measured |
| fw11a024 | Support a sick person in doing the household chores | directly measured |
| fw11a025 | Removing a sharp piece of glass from the entrance to a car park after having seen it in passing | directly measured |
| fw11a026 | Shoot your own movie | directly measured |
| fw11a027 | Clean a playground for free | directly measured |
| fw11a028 | Help a lost person to find his/her way | directly measured |
| fw11a029 | Spend a day with a handicapped person | directly measured |
| fw11a030 | Remove an object that prevents the doors of an elevator from closing in a public building | directly measured |
| fw11a031 | Attend a drawing course | directly measured |
| fw11a032 | Do volunteer work with which you can support topics that are important for you | directly measured |
| fw11a033 | Donate money for a good cause | directly measured |
| fw11a034 | Assist an old lady you see on the street to carry her heavy bags | directly measured |
| fw11a035 | Go from door to door to collect money for a good cause | directly measured |
| fw11a036 | Place a pack of rice that is fallen down in the supermarket back in its rack | directly measured |
| fw11a037 | Distribute leaflets for a cloth donation campaign to peoples\' mailboxes | directly measured |
| fw11a038 | Help a mother to carry her baby buggy up the stairs | directly measured |
| fw11a039 | Was it difficult to answer the questions? | directly measured |
| fw11a040 | Were the questions sufficiently clear? | directly measured |
| fw11a041 | Did the questionnaire get you thinking about things? | directly measured |
| fw11a042 | Was it an interesting subject? | directly measured |
| fw11a043 | Did you enjoy answering the questions? | directly measured |
| fw11a044 | Starting date questionnaire | constructed |
| fw11a045 | Starting time questionnaire | constructed |
| fw11a046 | End date questionnaire | constructed |
| fw11a047 | End time questionnaire | constructed |
| fw11a048 | Duration in seconds | derived |
Response Information
Response Overview
Selected number of household members: 2444 (100%)Non-response: 989 (40.5%)
Response: 1455 (59.5%)
Complete: 1447 (59.2%)
Incomplete: 8 (.3%)
Collection Events
Period
05-12-2011 to 26-12-2011
Sample
Panel members with the age of 16 years or older.
Collection Mode
internet survey
Fieldwork Note
A reminder was sent twice to non-respondents
Publications
Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 5(3); Aydinli, A
et al.
Family characteristics and entrepreneurship among immigrants in the Netherlands Master thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics; Grigorian, A.A.