Experiences in Measuring Volunteer Work: Insights from Italy
Tools and approaches for measuring volunteer work in Italy, including experiences with different survey platforms and harmonized sources. The adoption of the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work and the importance of collaboration between official statistics and the third sector for accurate data collection are discussed.
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4 March 2021 SWVR Online Dialogue #1 MEASURING THE INVISIBLE WORK Tools and approaches for measuring volunteer work MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK Experiences from Italy Tania Cappadozzi Istat | Division for population register, demographic and living conditions statistics - Time Use Survey and Measurement of volunteer work
European harmonized Sources on Volunteering conducted in Italy (surveys on households) o Time Use Survey (2002-2003, 2008-2009, 2013-2014; planned 2021-2022). o Eu- Silc - Module on social and cultural participation (2006, 2015; planned 2022) o Main advantage: both sources are harmonized at EU level, so the data collected are completely comparable among European countries. o Main disadvantage these surveys do not have a specific focus on volunteer work, so the information collected is scarce and presents some problems (the definitions are not uniform and reference periods are non-homogeneous). This generates a blurred image of volunteering 2013 - The Adoption of the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work o In this first edition we used as survey platform The Multipurpose Social Survey on households Aspects of Daily Life , a survey that my Institute conducts annually and which collects a lot of information on the quality of life of Italian citizens. 2 MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK. EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY | T. CAPPADOZZI
Different definitions, different results VOLUNTEERING RATES IN ITALY BY TYPE OF SOURCE REFERENCE PERIODS 20.0 TUS: 1 DAY EU-SILC: 12 MONTHS ILO MODULE: 4 WEEKS 12.0 11.2 10.0 8.0 7.9 5.8 HOUSEHOLD vs FAMILY Eu sources include help to non- cohabitant family members 1.5 0.0 direct organization-based EU sources: TUS 2014 (a) (1 day) EU sources: EU-SILC 15 (a) (12 months) ILO MODULE: ADL 2013 (4 weeks) (a) Including help to non-cohabitant family members. 3 MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK. EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY | T. CAPPADOZZI
The Adoption of the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work general issue from 2013 towards 2021-2022 o Importance of collaboration between official statistics and the third sector representatives: combines the scientific rigor on international standards with direct knowledge of the world of volunteering in the local context. This made it possible to preserve the international comparability of the data, but in compliance with local specificities. o The importance of survey platform: Time Use Survey already has as its main objective the study of time devoted to unpaid work, especially domestic and care work. By adding the ILO module on volunteer work, we will have a single platform with all the information necessary to estimate participation rates and total hours spent in unpaid work, using both instruments: the time use diary and the questionnaire with a larger reference period. o Regarding the possibility of spreading the use of the ILO module to compare data, with regard to European countries it would be necessary to put pressure on Eurostat, so that it adopts the ILO definition and promotes it within the harmonized survey under EU regulation (e.g. EU- silc 2022) 4 MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK. EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY | T. CAPPADOZZI
Technical lessons from the Italian Implementation: issue on definition Voluntary work is non-compulsory work performed for others without pay (ILO 2011, 2013) that is, time individuals give without pay to activities performed either through an organization or directly for others outside [their own household (ILO 2011)] their related family members (ILO 2013). Volunteers are those who have done at least one hour of volunteer work in the 4 weeks preceding the interview (ILO 2011, 2013). o The use of the term volunteering for organization-based volunteering o Who are and who are not others (beneficiaries)? helping non-cohabitant family members is not volunteer work In the new 2021 edition, we divided the question regarding the definition into three separate questions: one question on organization-based volunteering, using directly the term volunteering. one question on direct volunteering, aimed at helping people. Here we don't use the term volunteering but direct help activities to help people outside their family. one question on direct volunteering, aimed at helping the community or the environment. o This allows to reduce prompts o Reference period: use 4 weeks avoid the memory effect and allow to refer to regular volunteers 5 MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK. EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY | T. CAPPADOZZI
Lessons from the Italian Implementation: measure economic and social value of volunteer work o Volunteer activities: use the ISCO classification. This allowed us to analyse the interconnections between voluntary work and paid work, opening an interesting line of studies (the importance of skills acquired in volunteering to increase the employability of volunteers, especially young volunteers). o Add questions on social aspects to enrich the analysis on volunteering: antecedentsof volunteering: educational level, cultural participation, occupational status ; social impacts of volunteering: personal wellbeing, trust (interpersonal and institutional), political participation ; motivations, and subjective impacts of volunteering on volunteers themselves. o This allow to study the overall relationship between volunteering and both individual and collective well-being 6 MEASURING VOLUNTEER WORK. EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY | T. CAPPADOZZI
Thank you Tania Cappadozzi| tania.cappadozzi@istat.it Reference: Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering. New Global Statistical Standards. Editors: Guidi, Riccardo, Fonovi , Ksenija, Cappadozzi, Tania (Eds.) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030705459
