Views Of Canadian Blood Services Volunteers On Volunteering For The Blood System

Ottawa, ON - Canadian Blood Services commissioned Ipsos-Reid to undertake a national survey of Canadian Blood Services volunteers on their volunteer experience.

Almost all Canadian Blood Services volunteers (98%) are satisfied (7 or higher on a 10-point scale) with their experience volunteering for the blood system. Almost all (98%) Canadian Blood Services volunteers either strongly (76%) or somewhat (22%) agree that the work they do for the blood program makes a difference in people's lives.

Nearly all (97%) Canadian Blood Services volunteers say they will continue to volunteer with Canadian Blood Services in the future. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these volunteers say they will continue to volunteer for Canadian Blood Services for five years or longer.

These are some of the findings of an Ipsos-Reid telephone poll conducted on behalf of Canadian Blood Services from November 22nd to December 5th, 2004 with a randomly selected sample of 600 Canadian Blood Services volunteers. The results are considered to be accurate to within 1773.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what would have been had the entire population of Canadian Blood Services volunteers been polled.

Please open the attached PDFs to view the factum and detailed tables.

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For more information on this news release, please contact:

Mike Colledge
Senior Vice-President
Ipsos-Reid Public Affairs
(613) 241-5802