Journal article
Measuring Diversity in Voluntary Association Membership: A Comparison of Proxy and Direct Approaches
Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, Vol.46(1), pp.218-230
02/01/2017
DOI: 10.1177/0899764016661776
Abstract
The membership diversity of voluntary associations is of central interest in the literature investigating the importance of involvement in voluntary associations for civic life. Due to the limited availability of data concerned with the membership composition of voluntary associations, many researchers have adopted a proxy approach that is based on an aggregation of the characteristics of survey respondents who belong to particular types of associations. However, this proxy approach has not yet been validated to assess whether it actually captures voluntary association membership diversity. We address this gap by comparing the proxy approach with a more direct approach for measuring association diversity by using data from the United States Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy Survey and the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey. Our analyses reveal that the proxy measures are not correlated with direct measures of voluntary association membership diversity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Measuring Diversity in Voluntary Association Membership: A Comparison of Proxy and Direct Approaches
- Creators
- Rengin B. Firat - Georgia State UniversityJennifer L. Glanville - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, Vol.46(1), pp.218-230
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/0899764016661776
- ISSN
- 0899-7640
- eISSN
- 1552-7395
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- Russian Academic Excellence Project '5-100'; Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation; Project 5-100, Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306248202771
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