This week Chesapeake Family is focusing on volunteering and the numbers 20/80 keep popping up. We can thank 19th century Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who came up with Pareto principle stating roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. The 80-20 rule applied to volunteering means that 20% of parents volunteer while the other 80% benefit form the 20%’s efforts. Sound familiar?
So how many people are volunteering in Maryland? How many students? Here’s some numbers from findthedata.org:
- Volunteer Rate 29.4%
- Older Adult Volunteer Rate 29.3%
- Young Adult Volunteer Rate 22.4%
- College Student Volunteer Rate 26.1%
- Teenage Volunteer Rate 26.9%
- Volunteer Hours Per Resident 45.7 hrs.
- Baby Boomer Volunteer Rate 32.7%
- Millennial Volunteer Rate 22.1%
Want to know more? Check out our story on dad’s volunterring in schools...
