Charity: Do you donate?
- October 22, 2010 11:14 AM |
- By POV
CBC News
Single women with high incomes give nearly twice as much to charities as single men, research from the University of Indiana shows.
The report "Women Give 2010" draws its data from the Center for Philanthropy Panel Study, the largest database on philanthropic giving in the United States.
Researchers controlled for factors such as income, race, education and number of children in 8,000 households to allow a direct comparison between the charitable practices of single men and single women.
Married couples are by far the most generous when it comes to giving, but the researchers said it's important to understand the charitable patterns of single people.
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