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Volunteer work among older adults in Denmark, 1997–2017: What can explain the continuous upward trend?
European Journal of Ageing ( IF 3.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-28 , DOI: 10.1007/s10433-020-00571-w
Anna Amilon 1 , Malene Rode Larsen 1
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The present study assessed and explained trends in volunteer work among older adults in Denmark against the backdrop of stagnating participation rates in, for example, the USA. Data on volunteering were retrieved from the multidisciplinary Danish Longitudinal Study on Ageing and merged with information from administrative registries. Multiple imputation was used to correct for sample selection, and Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition was applied to analyse the development in volunteering from 1997 to 2017 for 6263 respondents aged 67–77. For this age group, volunteerism increased by 12% points, corresponding to an almost 50% increase from 1997 to 2017. Approximately a quarter of this increase was due to compositional changes, i.e. to changes in respondents’ characteristics between the 2 years, whereas three-quarters were due to changes in coefficients, i.e. to changes in the associations between the explanatory variables and volunteering over time. Thus, while larger shares of older adults had more resources in terms of higher levels of education and health in 2017 than in 1997, such resources were less important for volunteerism among Danish older adults in 2017. Despite concerns about declining civic-mindedness and empirical evidence on stagnating participation rates in many Anglo-Saxon countries, Denmark has succeeded in drawing an ever-broader range of older adults into volunteerism over the past decades. The extensive welfare state model and changing norms and perceptions of ageing may together have contributed to the large increase in old-age volunteerism in Denmark.



中文翻译:

丹麦老年人志愿者工作,1997-2017:什么可以解释持续上升的趋势?

本研究评估并解释了在美国等国家参与率停滞不前的背景下,丹麦老年人志愿工作的趋势。志愿服务数据来自丹麦多学科老龄化纵向研究,并与行政登记处的信息合并。多重插补用于校正样本选择,并应用 Blinder-Oaxaca 分解分析 1997 年至 2017 年 6263 名 67-77 岁受访者的志愿服务发展。对于这个年龄组,志愿服务增加了 12%,相当于从 1997 年到 2017 年增加了近 50%。这种增加的大约四分之一是由于组成变化,即两年间受访者特征的变化,而三个- 季度是由于系数的变化,即。e. 解释变量和志愿服务之间的关联随时间的变化。因此,尽管与 1997 年相比,2017 年更多的老年人在更高水平的教育和健康方面拥有更多的资源,但这些资源对于 2017 年丹麦老年人的志愿服务而言并不那么重要。尽管人们担心公民意识和经验证据会下降由于许多盎格鲁-撒克逊国家的参与率停滞不前,丹麦在过去几十年中成功地吸引了越来越多的老年人参与志愿服务。广泛的福利国家模式以及不断变化的老龄化规范和观念可能共同促成了丹麦老年志愿服务的大量增加。虽然与 1997 年相比,2017 年更大比例的老年人在更高水平的教育和健康方面拥有更多资源,但这些资源对于 2017 年丹麦老年人志愿服务的重要性降低。尽管人们担心公民意识下降和经验证据表明停滞不前在许多盎格鲁-撒克逊国家的参与率方面,丹麦在过去几十年中成功地吸引了越来越多的老年人参与志愿服务。广泛的福利国家模式以及不断变化的老龄化规范和观念可能共同促成了丹麦老年志愿服务的大量增加。虽然与 1997 年相比,2017 年更大比例的老年人在更高水平的教育和健康方面拥有更多资源,但这些资源对于 2017 年丹麦老年人志愿服务的重要性降低。尽管人们担心公民意识下降和经验证据表明停滞不前在许多盎格鲁-撒克逊国家的参与率方面,丹麦在过去几十年中成功地吸引了越来越多的老年人参与志愿服务。广泛的福利国家模式以及不断变化的老龄化规范和观念可能共同促成了丹麦老年志愿服务的大量增加。尽管对许多盎格鲁-撒克逊国家的公民意识下降和参与率停滞不前的经验证据表示担忧,但丹麦在过去几十年中成功地吸引了越来越多的老年人参与志愿服务。广泛的福利国家模式以及不断变化的老龄化规范和观念可能共同促成了丹麦老年志愿服务的大量增加。尽管对许多盎格鲁-撒克逊国家的公民意识下降和参与率停滞不前的经验证据表示担忧,但丹麦在过去几十年中成功地吸引了越来越多的老年人参与志愿服务。广泛的福利国家模式以及不断变化的老龄化规范和观念可能共同促成了丹麦老年志愿服务的大量增加。

更新日期:2020-05-28
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