Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester

The information below was taken from the 3 City Survey undertaken in 2011. 

Volunteering in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester

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The graph above shows that only 7% of Glasgow respondents said they had volunteered in the previous year: less than half the equivalent figures for those in Liverpool (17%) and Manchester (15%). 

This stark difference is seen for both genders, across all age groups and in most social classes - see graphs below. 

Volunteering in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester by gender

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Glaswegian males, in particular, were less likely to have given unpaid help compared to women and compared to male and female respondents in the two other cities.  

Volunteering in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester by age

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Glaswegian respondents across all ages groups were less likely to volunteer than respondents in Liverpool and Manchester. 

Volunteering in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester by social grade
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Glaswegian respondents across almost all social grades were less likely to volunteer than respondents in Liverpool and Manchester.  It is potentially noteworthy that the greatest relative differences are seen between those of higher, rather than lower, social class (and the same is true in relation to analysis by area deprivation).

Notes

It is worth being aware that the volunteering question used in the 3 cities survey is different from that used in the Scottish Household Survey to measure volunteering - shown elsewhere in this section.  So results from the two surveys are not comparable.  

The 3 City Survey was carried out in partnership between the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and Health Scotland.  The full report can be found here.

The survey was carried out between July and November 2011.  The sample size was 3,701 in total (1,288 in Glasgow, 1,202 in Liverpool and 1,211 in Manchester). This was achieved with an overall 55% response rate, ranging from 53% in Manchester to 58% in Glasgow (the rate for Liverpool was 55%), and from 53% in the least deprived areas of the three cities to 58% in the most deprived areas.