Scottish Household Survey Key Findings

64 Participation in Formal Volunteering by Gender 000 667 333 000 2009 30% 34% 26% 29% 24% 28% 2016 2012 2019 MEN WOMEN 26% of adults in Scotland had taken part in formal volunteering in the last twelve months in 2019. This was a decrease from 31% in 2010. Women were consistently more likely to undertake formal volunteering than men. In 2019, 28% of women undertook formal volunteering in the past month, while 24% of men were doing the same. Levels of formal volunteering had decreased among both men and women since 2010, decreasing by 6 percentage points among women and 5 percentage points among men. Women aged 35 to 59 were the most likely to undertake formal volunteering 33% of this group undertook formal volunteering in the last twelve months in 2019 Volunteering Help Shape Scotland