Northern Ireland Young Life and Times Survey

Volunteering (2003 onwards)

Listed below are the questions asked in the Volunteering module and the years in which they were asked. If you want to see how young people actually answered the questions in a particular year, you can click on the year beside every question.

  • VOLINFO: How would you like to receive information about volunteering? 2009
  • EVMILVOL: Have you ever heard of the Millennium Volunteers Programme? 2009 2017
  • MILVOL: How have you heard about the Millenium Volunteer Programme? 2009 2017
  • VOLPAST: Have you volunteered in the past 12 months? 2009 2017
  • VOL12MTHS: Has your time spent volunteering increased, decreased or not changed over the last 12 months? 2017
  • VOLSCHL: How often have you volunteered in your school? 2009 2017
  • VOLSPORT: How often have you volunteered in the field of sport/exercise? 2009 2017
  • VOLHEALT: How often have you volunteered in the field of health and social welfare? 2009 2017
  • VOLHERTG: How often have you volunteered in the field of conservation, environment, heritage? 2009 2017
  • VOLANMAL: How often have you volunteered in the field of animal welfare? 2009 2017
  • VOLLOCAL: How often have you volunteered in your local community, social or youth groups? 2009 2017
  • VOLCHRCH: How often have you volunteered in church or religious organisations? 2009 2017
  • VOLOTH: How often have you volunteered somewhere else? 2009
  • VOLWHAT: What type of roles do you undertake when volunteering? 2009 2017
  • WHYVOL: Why did you become involved in volunteering? 2009 2017
  • OPPVOL: How did you find out about the opportunity to volunteer? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL1: Are you given the opportunity to do the sort of things you'd like to do? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL2: Do you get bored or lose interest in your involvement? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL3: Can you cope with the things you are asked to do? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL4: Are your efforts appreciated by the organisation or people you volunteer for? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL5: Do you find it difficult to balance your volunteering with your other commitments? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL6: Have you received training that helps you in your role as volunteer? 2009 2017
  • STATVOL7: Does your self-confidence grow when you volunteer? 2017
  • STATVOL8: Has your network of friends increased when you volunteer? 2017
  • STATVOL9: Has your contact with people from different religious backgrounds increased when you volunteer? 2017
  • STAVOL10: Has your contact with people from minority ethnic backgrounds increased when you volunteer? 2017
  • HOURVOL: How many hours have you spent volunteering in the past 4 weeks? 2009 2017
  • BENVOL: What benefits do you get from volunteering? 2009
  • VOLEXP: what expenses does the organsiation you volunteer for pay you? 2009
  • FRNDVOL: Has your network of friends increased since you began volunteering? 2009
  • CRFRNVOL: Has your contact with people of different backgrounds increased since you began volunteering? 2009
  • YNVOL: Which factors help explain why you do not volunteer or have reduced time volunteering? 2009 2017
  • STOPVOL: Why have stopped volunteering? 2009
  • ENCOUVOL: What factors would encourage you to volunteer? 2009 2017

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