1 See, for example, Putnam's bestselling book Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).
2 Missouri House of Representatives, Senate Bill 845 http://www.senate.mo.gov/10info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=3209158
3 Missouri House of Representatives, Senate Bill 651 http://www.senate.mo.gov/10info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=3157616
4 Missouri Community Service Commission, http://www.movolunteers.org/
5 2007–2009 average, http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/MO
6 Information on the 2009–2010 program year current as of March 10, 2010, www.nationalservice.gov.
7 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, http://dese.mo.gov/divcareered/sl_about.htm
8 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education , Missouri Assessment Program, http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/assess/eoc.html
9 According to IndependentSector.org. See http://www.independentsector.org/volunteer_time for details on how the value of volunteer time
is calculated.
10 The report can be downloaded at http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/.
11 Dened as doing one of the following; a) contacted or visited a public official –– at any level of government –– to express your opinion?; b) bought or boycotted a certain product or service because of the social or political values of the company that provides it; c) attended a meeting where political issues are discussed; d) taken part in a march, rally, protest, or demonstration; e) Showed your support for a particular party or candidate by, for example, attending a meeting, putting up a poster, or in some other way.
12 We dene participants as those who belong to at least one group or attend a meeting at least once per month. We dene leaders as those who meet the criteria of participants and also hold ofces or committee memberships.
13 While the civic leadership is more diverse in Missouri than in most states, there is still a very strong association between education and civic leadership in the state. For example, Missourians are almost twice as likely to lead groups if they have college backgrounds.
14 This finding should be interpreted cautiously due to the small sample size for those making less than $35,000.
15 Due to small sample size for other race/ethnic groups, we were only able to examine black/white differences in civic engagement for this report.
16 This category includes those respondents who were either divorced or widowed.
17 Due to small sample sizes, we were only able to compare Missouri's three largest MSAs, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springeld.
18 The percentage point estimate refers to the portion of people who said they belong to any of the groups presented (religious, school, neighborhood, or sports/recreation).
19 For the data that are reported in the charts below percentages were presented for respondents who reported that they were members of at least one group, talk with their neighbors “a few times per week or more often,” do favors for their neighbors “basically every day” or “a few times per week,” talk to their friends and family via the Internet “a few times per week or more often,” and eat dinner with their family “about every day.”
20 Those who are “connected” eat dinner with their family “about every day,” talk to their neighbors at least a few days a week, or talk to their family or friends via Internet at least once a month.
21 Due to small sample size, data were only available for two indicators, group participation and frequency eating dinner with family, for the Springeld MSA.
22 All job and pay gures used in this section are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment, Hours, and Earnings annual data series. http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment
23 Data on state financial support for higher education are from the Grapevine journal published by the Center for the Study of Educational Policy at Illinois State University, http://www.grapevine.ilstu.edu/. The CPI–U ination index is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://data.bls.gov/bls/ination.htm
24 The Executive Summary and the full report on the Civic Health Assessment for the United States are available to download at http://www.ncoc.net/CivicHealth2010.
25 View results of the poll at http://surveys.ap.org/data/GfK/AP–GfK%20Poll%20August%20NCC%20topline.pdf
26 See pages 49–62 of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's, The Spirit Level . (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009).
27 See the ASCE's Report Card at http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/