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Table 390. Participation of young adults in voluntary or community service activities, by selected characteristics: 1994 

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                          |          Percent participating in voluntary or community service activity                  |
                          |____________________________________________________________________________________________|
       Young adult        |  Any   |        |          |   Union,   |           |        |         |         |         |       Percentage distribution of
      characteristic      |activity|Sports  |  Church  |farm, trade,|Educational| Youth  |Political|Organized|  Other  |        volunteer hours per week
                          |        |teams or|activities|    or      |  organ-   | organ- |  clubs  |volunteer|voluntary|_________________________________________
                          |        |clubs\1\|          |professional| izations  |izations|         | work\2\ |  group  |None\3\| 1 or 2  |3 or 4|5 or 6|More than
                          |        |        |          |associations|           |        |         |         |         |       |  hours  |hours |hours | 6 hours
__________________________|________|________|__________|____________|___________|________|_________|_________|_________|_______|_________|______|______|_________
            1             |   2    |   3    |    4     |     5      |     6     |   7    |    8    |    9    |   10    |  11   |   12    |  13  |  14  |   15
__________________________|________|________|__________|____________|___________|________|_________|_________|_________|_______|_________|______|______|_________
  Total ..................|    37.2|     7.2|   11.8   |         1.8|        6.0|    10.3|      3.0|     10.4|      7.3|   62.7|     15.2|   7.9|   5.8|      8.3
                          |________|________|__________|____________|___________|________|_________|_________|_________|_______|_________|______|______|_________
Sex                       |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
  Male ...................|    36.8|     9.5|      11.1|         1.9|        4.6|    11.2|      2.9|      8.3|      7.3|   63.2|     14.7|   7.7|   5.6|      8.8
  Female .................|    37.9|     4.9|      12.7|         1.6|        7.1|     9.4|      3.2|     12.6|      7.3|   62.2|     15.8|   8.2|   6.1|      7.9
                          |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
Race/ethnicity            |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
  White, non-Hispanic ....|    38.5|     7.5|      11.3|         2.0|        5.8|    10.3|      3.1|     11.6|      7.8|   61.5|     17.1|   8.0|   5.5|      7.9
  Black, non-Hispanic ....|    35.9|     6.3|      15.8|         1.1|        6.4|    11.5|      3.1|      5.8|      6.2|   64.1|      9.6|   8.1|   7.7|     10.6
  Hispanic ...............|    31.7|     6.3|      11.2|         0.8|        6.5|     9.6|      2.3|      6.7|      5.4|   68.4|      9.8|   7.3|   6.0|      8.5
  Asian/Pacific Islander .|    35.8|     5.7|      10.5|         1.4|        7.1|     8.1|      3.4|     13.0|      8.4|   64.2|     14.9|   8.7|   4.3|      8.0
  American Indian/        |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
    Alaska Native ........|    34.1|    12.1|      14.6|         3.6|        6.1|    11.9|      3.8|      5.1|      3.9|   65.9|      8.7|   6.3|   8.1|     11.1
                          |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
Socioeconomic status      |        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
  quartile\4\ ............|        |        |          |            |           |        |         |         |         |       |         |      |      |
  Low ....................|    26.4|     5.0|      10.4|         0.9|        4.0|     7.4|      1.5|      5.9|      5.0|   73.6|      8.2|   5.8|   4.5|      7.9
  Low-middle .............|    30.4|     6.3|      10.8|         1.3|        3.9|     8.3|      2.1|      7.1|      6.3|   69.6|     11.0|   6.0|   5.9|      7.5
  High-middle ............|    38.6|     7.0|      13.0|         2.0|        5.8|    10.9|      3.3|      9.2|      7.5|   61.4|     16.9|   7.9|   6.1|      7.8
  High ...................|    51.1|     9.2|      14.7|         2.7|        9.7|    14.2|      4.9|     18.0|     10.3|   48.9|     24.6|  11.4|   5.9|      9.2
__________________________|________|________|__________|____________|___________|________|_________|_________|_________|_______|_________|______|______|_________

\1\Participating as a volunteer to help as a coach or other support activity, not as a player.
\2\E.g., hospital volunteer.
\3\Not a volunteer.
\4\Socioeconomic status (SES) was measured by a composite score of parental education and occupations, and family income.

NOTE: Some persons participated in more than one organization. Sample survey in 1994 based on people who were high school seniors in spring 1992. Respondents to the survey were asked about their voluntary participation in selected organizations over the previous 12-month period. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS88/94), "Third Follow-up, 1994." (This table was prepared July 1995.)


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