The German Survey on Volunteering (FWS) covers a wide range of information on the living conditions of volunteers and non-volunteers and the context of voluntary activities.
The FWS focuses mainly on the following topics:
- Societal areas of volunteering
- Main contents of voluntary acitivities
- Management or board positions in voluntary acitivities
- Time spent on voluntary work
- Qualification in volunteering
- Payments and reimbursement in voluntary work
- Motives for volunteering
- Organizational structures in voluntary work
- Individual resources of volunteering (socio-economic status, health, social integration)
- Volunteering of people with migration background
- Voluntary services
- Memberships
- Informal support outside the volunteering
- Political participation
- Monetary donations
- Regional differences (administrative districts, East and West Germany)
The complete survey instruments of the FWS can be downloaded here