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The Quality and Comparability of Survey Data on Charitable Giving

Mark O. Wilhelm

Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis

This article examines six major household surveys of charitable giving and attempts to trace differences in estimates to underlying differences in survey methodology. The main result is that surveys that cue respondent recall by directing attention to charities’ outputs and use interviewers experienced in obtaining information about dollar amounts measure larger amounts of giving. Even so, it is very difficult to estimate giving at the top of the distribution without a high-income oversample: Only one of the surveys not containing a high-income oversample produces estimates around the 90th percentile similar to that obtained with a high-income oversample.

Key Words: charitable donations • charitable contributions • relative distributions

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1, 65-84 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0899764006293177
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