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 Volunteer rate of resident population aged 15 and over (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Volunteer rate of resident population aged 15 and over (%) by Sex and Marital status (Social); Irregular
Regularity Annual
Source Volunteer Work Survey
First available period 2018
Last available period 2018
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Marital status (Social)
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • VOLUNTEERS:  Set of actions, with social and community interest, held by people selflessly and within projects, programs and other forms of intervention developed by nonprofit entities, public or private, to serve the individuals, families and the community.
  • MARITAL STATUS:  A person's legal situation consisting of the qualities defining his or her personal status in terms of family relations figuring in the register. It comprises the following situations: single, married, widow(er), divorced.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 05/07/2021


information presented in 27/6/2025