Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating 2007 (csgvp)


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The Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) is the result of a 
partnership of federal government departments and voluntary sector organizations that 
includes Imagine Canada, Canadian Heritage, Health Canada, Human Resources and Social 
Development Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada and Volunteer 
Canada. This survey is an important source of information on Canadian contributory 
behaviour, including giving, volunteering and participating.

The objectives of the CSGVP are threefold:

1) to collect national data to fill a void of information about individual 
   contributory behaviours including volunteering, charitable giving and participation;
2) to provide reliable and timely data to the System of National Accounts; and
3) to inform both the public and voluntary sectors in policy and program decisions 
   that relate to the charitable and volunteer sector.


Structure of the files

There are two data files for the 2007 Canada Survey of Giving,
Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP): the main answer file (CSGVP2007_MAIN_PUMF.txt),
and the giver file (CSGVP2007_GS_PUMF.txt). To link between the two Public Use
Microdata Files use the variable PUMFID. 

MAIN.TXT 

This is the main answer file and contains one record per respondent. All
questions except for those on the GS file are located here. In addition,
summary derived variables have been created from the GS file and placed
on the MAIN file. 

GS.TXT 

This is the "giving" or charitable donation answer file. It contains one
or more records for each person who made a financial donation: one
record for each of up to 10 charitable organizations to which the
respondent donated, over the 12 month reference period, in response to a
particular solicitation method. For each of the 13 methods of
solicitation itemized in the questionnaire, a donor may therefore have
up to 10 records, each containing information regarding the type of
organization, as well as the total amount of all donations made to that
organization in response to that method of solicitation. In cases where
the respondent donated to more than 10 organizations in response to a
given method of solicitation, the total amount of all donations made to
the remaining organizations is present on the 10th record as derived
variable GS1D08. 


csgvp/2007/data

csgvp2007dat-bootstrap.zip  Bootstrap MAIN Data file (61,919,690 uncompressed) (3,017 record length) 
                            (20,510 number of records) (24,364,062 zip)

csgvp2007dat-gs.zip         GS Data file (3,534,471 uncompressed) (41 record length) (82,197 number of records) 
                            (568,091 zip) 

csgvp2007datv2-main.zip     MAIN Data file (14,049,350 uncompressed) (683 record length) (20,510 number of records) 
                            (1,804,072 zip) 

csgvp/2007/doc

csgvp2007bootstrap.sas		Bootstrap	    
csgvp2007gid.doc		User's Guide (doc)
csgvp2007gid.pdf		User's Guide (pdf)
csgvp2007gs-cbk.doc		GS file Codebook     (doc)
csgvp2007gs-cbk.pdf             GS file Codebook     (pdf)
csgvp2007gs.sas			GS file SAS code 
csgvp2007gs.sps	                GS file SPSS code
csgvp2007main-cbk.doc           MAIN file Code Book (doc)
csgvp2007main-cbk.pdf           MAIN file Code Book (pdf)
csgvp2007main.sas               MAIN file SAS code
csgvp2007main.sps               MAIN file SPS code
csgvp2007que.doc                Questionnaire (doc)
csgvp2007que.pdf                Questionnaire (pdf)
csgvp2007vt.doc                 Variance Tables (doc)
csgvp2007vt.pdf			Variance Tables (pdf)