mapping and measuring the distribution of resources john mohan
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Mapping and measuring civil society: insights from TSRC’s programme of
quantitative research
John Mohan
©Copyright TSRC 2011. Please do not reproduce illustrations or material presented here without permission.
Median growth of income, 1998-2008, by initial (1998) income
Probability of survival to 2008 by income in 1998
Establishment dates of charities, 1963-2006: England and NE compared
Civic core
• the subset of people who collectively provide over 2/3 of at least ONE of the following:– Unpaid help– Donations to charity– Participation in a range of civic
organisations
(after Reed and Selbee, 2001)
Components of civic core: shares of volunteering, participation and giving to charity
Distribution of core and non-core groups by IMD
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Distribution of core and non-core groups by IMD
Civic core
Non-core but engaged
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No public income Public income
Distribution of organisations working at the neighbourhood scale, by IMD
Modelling and mythbusting
• Exposure to public funding streams
– is it where you are or what your organisation does that matters?
– or is it both?
• Social capital and volunteering
– strong association but disappears once you introduce controls for local economic conditions
• Cohort variations in participation
– distinguishing effects of age and cohort
– is there a cohort decline in engagement?
Volunteering rates and social capital by level of deprivation
Long term developments in data environment
• Deposit of data created is an ESRC requirement BUT some sources are proprietary
• UK wide – depends on resources• Open data, e.g. COINS database• Technological developments – scraping etc.• Administrative datasets – those generated by organisations
themselves, e.g. volunteer characteristics.
Forthcoming working papers
• Regional and local authority estimates of third sector workforce
• Classifying and counting the non-charitable third sector
• The “civic core”: disproportionality in giving and participation
• Volunteering as unpaid work or unpaid help: survey methods and their effect on reports of voluntary activity
• Patterns of participation: the mix of activities individuals undertake when they engage with the voluntary sector
• Estimates of volunteer numbers in the regulated third sector
• High pay in the third sector
• Long-run trends in the establishment of new voluntary organisations
Further details
• General overview: TSRC working paper 62• Tescoisation papers: TSRC working papers 38
and 39• Trends in establishment dates of organisations:
link to relevant paper here• Civic core: conference paper available here• Social capital and volunteering: conference
paper available here• Neighbourhood-scale organisations: TSRC
working paper available here
Further details:
John Mohan
TSRC
Social Sciences
Southampton SO17 1PN
[email protected] or [email protected]
www.tsrc.ac.uk