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Volunteers, helpers and socialisers: social capital and time use
Using the UK 2000 time use survey, this report explores three important social capital activities looking at who does them, where they do them and who they do them with.
Results from the UK 2000 Time Use Survey (TUS) are used in this report to look at three particularly important aspects of social capital: time spent volunteering (formal participation), time spent helping others or providing informal care (informal involvement) and social time with friends and family (informal sociability). This report describes the characteristics of adults (aged 16 and over) who do these activities, where they do them and who they do them with.
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