Estimating giving and volunteering: New ways to measure the phenomena

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 497-525

  Cnaan, Ram A ^a   Jones, Kathleen H ^a   Dickin, Allison ^b   Salomon, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Harris Interactive   (United States)

Author keywords

giving and volunteering; Internet based; national survey; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955536840     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764010365741     Document Type: Article

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