September, 2000

Because of anomalies found in the data, Statistics Canada has issued a new version of the 1997 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (NSGVP) data files. There are three files affected - the main answer file (SGVP.TXT), the volunteer event file (VOLNTR.TXT) and the giver file (GIVE.TXT ).Note that the record length of the sgvp.txt file is now 553.

The following is a list of variables that have been updated on the 1997 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (NSGVP) data files.

SGVP File:
Variable	Description
DVORGV01	Number of volunteer events for culture and rec organization
DVHRSV01	Total hours volunteered for culture and rec organizations
DVORGV02	Number of volunteers events for education, research organizations
DVHRSV02	Total hours volunteered for education, research organizations
DVORGV03	Number of volunteer events for health organizations
DVHRSV03	Total hours volunteered for health organizations
DVORGV04	Number of volunteer events for social service organizations
DVHRSV04	Total hours volunteered for social service organizations
DVORGV05	Number of volunteer events for environment organizations
DVHRSV05	Total hours volunteered for environment organizations
DVORGV06	Number of volunteer events for development housing organizations
DVHRSV06	Total hours volunteered for development housing organizations
DVORGV08	Number of volunteer events for philanthropic, voluntarism organizations
DVHRSV08	Total hours volunteered for philanthropic, voluntarism organizations
DVORGV09	Number of volunteer events for international organizations
DVHRSV09	Total hours volunteered for international organizations
DVORGV10	Number of volunteer events for religious organizations
DVHRSV10	Total hours volunteered for religious organizations
DVORGG01	DV-# donations: culture and rec organizations
DVAMTG01	DV-Amount of donations: culture and rec organizations
DVORGG02	DV-# donations: education and research organizations
DVAMTG02	DV-Amount of donations: education and research organizations
DVORGG03	DV-# donations: health organizations
DVAMTG03	DV-Amount of donations: health organizations
DVORGG04	DV-# donations: social service organizations
DVAMTG04	DV-Amount of donations: social service organizations
DVORGG05	DV-# donations: environment organizations
DVAMTG05	DV-Amount of donations: environment organizations
DVORGG06	DV-# donations: development and housing organizations
DVAMTG06	DV-Amount of donations: development and housing organizations
DVORGG08	DV-# donations: philanthropic and voluntarism organizations
DVAMTG08	DV-Amount of donations: philanthropic and voluntarism organizations
DVORGG09	DV-# donations: international organizations
DVAMTG09	DV-Amount of donations: international organizations
DVORGG10	DV-# donations: religious organizations
DVAMTG10	DV-Amount of donations: amount of donations religious organizations
VOLNTR File:
Variable	Description
VAS_CODE	1987 Organization code
ICNPO_2	Organization group: 2 digit code
ICNPO_3	Organization group: 3 digit code
ICNPO_5	Organization group: 5 digit code
GIVE File:
Variable	Description
ICNPO_2	Organization group: 2 digit code
ICNPO_3	Organization group: 3 digit code
ICNPO_5	Organization group: 5 digit code