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Who Gives? A Look at Charitable Giving Patterns by Religious Attendance
December 13, 2006
| Nearly
three-fourths of respondents to a 2002 national survey considered
themselves "compassionate." Yet not all compassionate individuals
practice charity with the same frequency, according to a 2004 study.
Donation patterns differed by respondents’ religious attendance patterns. Among respondents who said they were compassionate, those who regularly attended religious services were more likely to give to charities each year than those who rarely or never attended religious services (89 percent versus 66 percent). The disparity was even more apparent for monthly giving (50 percent versus 18 percent). Between two compassionate individuals, nearly identical except for their religious attendance, the religious person was 12 percentage points more likely to give money to charities each year. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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