Table 73　Trends in Volunteer Participation:　1980-1996

Source:　National Center for Promotion of Volunteer Activities, National Council of Social Welfare, Volunteer Activities Yearbook 1997.

　

Table 74　Area of Volunteering Activities by Sex and Age:　1993

¹⁾ Environment and nature conservation activities (ex. cleaning-up, recycle activities)

²⁾ Sports and recreation (ex. coaching sports and recreation games; instructing local festivals and affairs, school extra carricula activities)

³⁾ Social welfare activities (ex. care for elderly or disabled people; delivering lunch; child care)

⁴⁾ Educational activities for youth (ex. Boy Scout; Girl Scout; children's club)

⁵⁾ Traffic safety activities (ex. watch for school children)

⁶⁾ Activities in the public facility (ex. child care; attendants of exhibitions)

⁷⁾ Tutoring activities (ex. counseling or tutoring for learning programs such as cooking, foreign languages, calligraphy)

⁸⁾ Public health and medical care assistance (ex. volunteers at the hospital)

⁹⁾ International cooperation activities (ex. translations; assistance for refugees, technical assistance; assistance for foreign students)

Source:　Minister's Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office, The Opinion Survey on Lifelong Education and Volunteering Activities (November, 1993)

　

Table 75　Implementation of Volunteer Leave by Size of Companies:　1995

Source:　Ministry of Labour, General Survey on Wages and Working Hours System (1995).

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