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Age differences in voluntary association memberships — fact or artifact
Author(s)	Stephen J Cutler, Jon Hendricks
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 2, March 2000
Pages	pp S98-S107
Keywords	Participation ; Voluntary agencies ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Data from 12 nationally representative US surveys covering the period 1974 to 1994 and including items on membership and types of association indicate that, at the bivariate level, the number of memberships increases between the ages of 40 to 44 and then declines fairly steadily. When controls for compositional differences are introduced, the curvilinear pattern of age differences is replaced by one showing an increasing number of memberships between ages 55 to 59, a slight decrease in the 60 to 64 age group, and then generally stable membership levels in over 85s. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000825219 A
Classmark	TMB: PK: 3KB: 7T
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