where do you volunteer?

Economics Blog: #2
February 5, 2010, 6:57 pm
Where Do You Volunteer?
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
We recently noted that volunteer rates edged up last year. Between September 2008 and September 2009, 26.8 percent of the population volunteered through or for an organization; the previous year, 26.4 percent of the population did so.
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a handy pie chart showing where that quarter of the population chooses to volunteer. It turns out that the plurality of people who volunteer mainly do so for religious organizations:

Among all volunteers, the demographic group most likely to report that they mainly volunteer for their religious organizations were those without a high school diploma. Among volunteers who didn’t graduate from high school, 47.1 percent say that they mainly volunteer for a religious organization.









Description:
Volunteering plays as a very important resource or FREE resource that is there to help people. This static’s show that volunteering on ones own time is very slim.
Demographics- people, and the statistical study of them. Watching a gradual change or consistency through a chart or some sort of organization.
Population- The size of the world full of people and how the number of people continues to escalate.

Analysis:
There are many reasons why people volunteer. The main point is that volunteering ties in with economics because it’s free resources and people who may not be familiar with the system of economics may volunteer at an agency that has a lot to do with economics.

Explanation:
Statistics show that volunteering is not common as personal preference. So if we were to involve more people into doing free work to help others raise above the current situation of poverty it would make a much cleaner and healthy society as well as economy.

Prediction:
With schools making it a priority to volunteer. I believe that one day we will make streets clean and bring safety to our communities. Also a major problem is with a community with a lot of indigents people it will cause tourist and people with money to steer away. Hence causing the circulation of business to decrease.