Trends in Humane Giving: New Survey Caps Nine-Year Analysis Showing Increasing Support
for Charities That Do Not Fund Animal Experiments
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Autumn 2005
Overview | Survey
Details | Results | Discussion | Appendix
Survey
Details
Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, conducted
random telephone surveys of the general adult public. The survey
questions and response mechanisms differed slightly in each survey.
The questions are listed in the box below.
Data collection efforts for all surveys took place at Opinion
Research Corporation’s Central Telephone Facility in Tampa,
Florida, and/or Tucson, Arizona, using a computer-assisted CARAVAN© telephone-interviewing system. This allows for the most accurate
form of interviewing, data collection, and entry protocols. Households
were selected for interviewing by an unrestricted random sampling
procedure that controls serial bias. One interview was conducted
per household, and four attempts to complete an interview were
made for all numbers.
Interviews were weighted by age, sex, geographic region, and race
to ensure an accurate representation of the total adult (over 18
years of age) population. The weighted total of adults polled for
each year was 1,000. Actual totals were 1,006, 1,001, and 1,012
for 1996, 2001, and 2005, respectively. The use of replicable sampling,
representative weighting, and standardized interviewing procedures
gives all CARAVAN© studies parallel measure, making trend
and tracking analyses appropriate.
Responses were given in total, and also categorized according
to sex, age, geographical region, race, household income, household
size, education, and number of children in household.
Survey Questions/Statements
2005: Respondents were asked
to qualify the question based on a “likely/unlikely” scale.
1.
How likely would you be to donate to a health charity if
you knew that the charity funds animal experiments?
2. How likely would you be to donate to a health charity
that had a policy of never funding any type of animal
experiments?
3. When donating to a health charity, how important is it
that your donation be used for innovative research
without animals rather than animal research?
1996/2001: Respondents
were asked to qualify the statement based on an “agree/disagree” scale.
1.
I would be less likely to donate to a health charity if I
knew that the charity funds animal research experiments.
2.
I would be more likely to donate to a health charity
that had a policy of never funding any type of animal
experiments.
Respondents could also answer, “I don’t
know,” or “I
don’t donate to health charities.” These responses
are given as “Other” in the results section. |
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