Volunteer work among older adults in Denmark, 1997-2017: What can explain the continuous upward trend?

ABSTRACT: The present study assessed and explained trends in volunteer work among older adults in Denmark against the backdrop of stagnating participation rates in, for example, the USA. Data on volunteering were retrieved from the multidisciplinary Danish Longitudinal Study on Ageing and merged with information from administrative registries. Multiple imputation was used to correct for sample selection, and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was applied to analyse the development in volunteering from 1997 to 2017 for 6263 respondents aged 67-77. For this age group, volunteerism increased by 12% points, corresponding to an almost 50% increase from 1997 to 2017. Approximately a quarter of this increase was due to compositional changes, i.e. to changes in respondents' characteristics between the 2 years, wh

SUBMITTER: Amilon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7925716 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature