National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 1 (2003)

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PENCVOL P8. How often, if at all, have you encouraged (your teen) to do volunteer work or community service? [READ LIST]   1) Very often   2) Fairly often   3) Sometimes   4) Not very often, or   5) Not at all   777) Don't know   888) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very often	769	22.8%	22.8%	-.1
Fairly often	805	23.9%	46.7%	-.08
Sometimes	1130	33.5%	80.2%	-.06
Not very often, or	417	12.4%	92.6%	-.04
Not at all	234	6.9%	99.6%	-.02
Don't know	13	.4%	99.9%	14.65
Refused	2	.1%	100%	16.76

Variable Comparisons

Gender Church attendance Religion

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very often	22.1% 375	23.6% 394	22.8% 769
Fairly often	23.1% 393	24.7% 412	23.9% 805
Sometimes	34.3% 583	32.8% 547	33.5% 1130
Not very often, or	12.6% 215	12.1% 202	12.4% 417
Not at all	7.4% 126	6.5% 108	6.9% 234
Don't know	0.4% 7	0.4% 6	0.4% 13
Refused	0.1% 1	0.1% 1	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 1700	100.0% 1670	3370

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	No	Yes	TOTAL
Very often	19.1% 118	23.7% 650	22.8% 768
Fairly often	20.2% 125	24.7% 677	23.9% 802
Sometimes	33.9% 210	33.5% 918	33.6% 1128
Not very often, or	17.3% 107	11.3% 309	12.4% 416
Not at all	8.9% 55	6.5% 178	6.9% 233
Don't know	0.5% 3	0.4% 10	0.4% 13
Refused	0.2% 1	0.0% 1	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 619	100.0% 2743	3362

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Conservative Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Not religious	Other relig	TOTAL
Very often	20.7% 216	26.2% 91	27.8% 111	22.5% 184	14.9% 61	33.9% 93	22.9% 756
Fairly often	23.8% 249	27.7% 96	18.8% 75	25.5% 209	21.0% 86	28.1% 77	24.0% 792
Sometimes	36.2% 378	28.2% 98	29.8% 119	34.3% 281	36.1% 148	28.1% 77	33.4% 1101
Not very often, or	12.6% 132	14.4% 50	12.5% 50	10.3% 84	16.1% 66	8.0% 22	12.3% 404
Not at all	6.2% 65	3.5% 12	10.5% 42	7.2% 59	11.0% 45	1.5% 4	6.9% 227
Don't know	0.5% 5	0.0% 0	0.5% 2	0.2% 2	0.7% 3	0.4% 1	0.4% 13
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 347	100.0% 400	100.0% 819	100.0% 410	100.0% 274	3295