Voluntary sector research in Canada since the mid-1970's and mid-1990's

The diverse multitude of organizations range from small community-based groups to large, national umbrella organizations, all enriching the lives of Canadians in various ways.” 2. I compiled 65 records of studies which concern aspects of the voluntary sector prior to the 1970s, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. [...] In addition, the state of development of the Canadian voluntary sector research field will also be compared to that of the United States in a tentative way at a couple of junctures, partly in order to address fundamental concerns about the data quality of the database concerning the relative absence of older titles. [...] However, there are two lines of evidence to support the idea that the existing database provides an accurate indication of the genuine recency 16 of this field of study and the relative dearth of (published ) Canadian voluntary sector research over most of this period. [...] This is shown in Appendix 4, in a table which sets out the distribution of the various formats for each of the three main scopes of application of the research. [...] It has more or less the expected distribution of journals, proportionally speaking; multiple authorship rates comparable to those in the social sciences and the voluntary sector research based in other jurisdictions; and a distribution in the number and relative productivity of authors which conforms to a generalized form of Lotka‟s Law of Scientific Productivity.