The article “Who Gives What to Charity? Characteristics Affecting Donation Behavior” written by  Yu-Kang Lee and Chun-Tuan Chang from the National Sun Yet-sen University in Taiwan, is a very in depth study of exactly what they state in the title who gives what to charity. Their researching topic was streamlined by the concept that giving to charity appears in two forms time and money resulting in the question “can donors and nondonors be distinguished using demographic, socioeconomic, and psycho-graphic variables”. This is one of the easier research studies to determine what kind of data they need to answer their question which is self-identities or demographic data. Even their data gathering method is plainly explained even if you just read the abstract the data gathering method was a large-scale telephone survey done in Taiwan. As for the analysis that was something you had to read past the first two pages to get at but it isn’t really hidden amongst scientific jargon like many other research studies like to do to people trying to figure out how they performed their research. The analysis method was a qualitative one using transcripts from recordings of the telephone surveys. This piece was great when I first found when I was also deciding to shift my research project from a pollution based study to a donation study. However it feel into that category of being of a similar design just on a different topic. Those who are interested in volunteer work would find this very interesting as it is essentially a study that can be used to determine if people you know are more or less willing to donate either their money or time to help a charity or organization you happen to be working with. So I think this a great piece almost simply of the fact that it is still professional but doesn’t add in extensive amounts of scientific language to bog down report seeing as they already had a lot to cover as well as adding a future research section in case you wanted to help expand on it.

Link to article: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Y_K_Lee/publication/233603047_Who_Gives_What_to_Charity_Characteristics_Affecting_Donation_Behaviour/links/543b704d0cf2d6698be2fc9d.pdf