Indiana Personal Affiliation Survey
Indiana residents interact with nonprofits daily, often times without knowing it. The Personal Affiliation Survey, conducted in May 2001 and managed by the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University, is an effort to catalogue the types of nonprofits Indiana residents interact with and the nature of this interaction. Five hundred and twenty-six respondents were asked in a random telephone poll about four types of involvement with nonprofits during the past 12 months: participation in religious services; attending events or activities at other types of nonprofits; volunteering; or workingfor nonprofits.The survey also allowed us to evaluate the utility of this alternative approach to sampling Indiana nonprofits, compared to drawing a sample from a comprehensive nonprofit database.