Volunteer Applications Responses Overview

Volunteer Applications Responses Summary

This information is still being summarized from the answers to our online applications for volunteers. This data will summarized here by March 1999.

What states are most represented (number indicates how many from that state)?
Of the top cities represented most, what cities are most represented (number indicates how many from that city)?
How many came from outside the United States?
How many (number and percentage) of these respondants had their own URL?
What were the top 5 - 10 ways the respondant heard about the VV Project?
What were the top reasons volunteers wanted to volunteer with the VV Project?
What were the most common aspects of this Project cited as interesting respondants?
What were the most common tasks cited by applicants as those they wanted to undertake for the VV Project? (how did they want to help as a volunteer?)
What were the most common results cited as desired by applicants? (how did they want to help as a volunteer?)
What were the most common results cited as desired by applicants? (how did they want to help as a volunteer?)
How many hours did applicants want to volunteer online with the Project?
How many said they would be using a work computer, either partly or entirely, to help with the VV Project?
What percentage of respondants said they had volunteered before, on or offline?
What were the types of volunteer activities these volunteers had done with other agencies, on or offline? (cite which were most common)
What were the reasons given as why volunteers liked previous volunteer assignments? (cite which were most common)
What were the reasons given as why volunteers disliked previous volunteer assignments? (cite which were most common)
What percentage of respondants had experience with Web search engines?
What search engines did respondants cite as using regularly?
What percentage of respondants said they could create .HTML files?
What percentage of respondants said they could create .cgi or .pl files?
What were other common skills applicants had?
What are the professions of applications? (cite which are most common)

Of those who responded, what is the ethnic background, by percentage of applicants?)

Applicants who did NOT
end up volunteering with us
Applicants who DID
volunteer with us

xx% of identified as Anglo/Caucasian/of European descent/white
x% xx respondants who identified as of African descent/black
xx% xx respondants who identified as Asian/East Indian
xx% xx respondants who identified as Latino/Chicano/Hispanic
xx% xx respondants who identified as American Indian/Native American
xx% xx respondants who identified as something that could not be classified above, or a person of mixed ethnicity

Of those who responded, what is the age background of applicants by percentage and by number?

Applicants who did NOT
end up volunteering with us
Applicants who DID
volunteer with us

xx% xx respondants are 17 and under
xx% xx respondants are 18 - 25
xx% xx respondants are 26 - 39
xx% xx respondants are 40 - 59
xx% xx respondants are 60 and above

Comments/trends that don't fit above but are worth mentioning:

Applicants who did NOT
end up volunteering with us
Applicants who DID
volunteer with us

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Applicants who did NOT end up volunteering with us		Applicants who DID volunteer with us

Applicants who did NOT end up volunteering with us		Applicants who DID volunteer with us
xx% of identified as Anglo/Caucasian/of European descent/white x% xx respondants who identified as of African descent/black xx% xx respondants who identified as Asian/East Indian xx% xx respondants who identified as Latino/Chicano/Hispanic xx% xx respondants who identified as American Indian/Native American xx% xx respondants who identified as something that could not be classified above, or a person of mixed ethnicity

Applicants who did NOT end up volunteering with us		Applicants who DID volunteer with us
xx% xx respondants are 17 and under xx% xx respondants are 18 - 25 xx% xx respondants are 26 - 39 xx% xx respondants are 40 - 59 xx% xx respondants are 60 and above