10/2026
2026-03-11
Voluntary Work
In 2025 a half of adult Poles engaged in some kind of voluntary activity on behalf of others, both within established organisations and outside them. This is more than in 2023 (by 6 percentage points) and 2021 (by 5 points), and almost the same as in the record, pre-pandemic year of 2019.
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The highest percentages of people volunteering can be found in the youngest age group (68%), and among students in secondary or higher education (74%), residents of the largest cities (66%), the best-educated respondents (59%), managers and specialists (67%), farmers (71%), people with their own businesses (65%), those with the highest per capita household incomes (63%) and those participating most in religious practices (64%).
More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (430) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register. Respondents independently selected one of the following methods: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI); Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS; Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS. In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 5 – 16 February 2026 inclusive on a sample of 967 people (60.2% using the CAPI method, 24.1% CATI and 15.7% CAWI). CBOS has been conducting statutory research using the above procedure since May 2020, stating in each case the percentage of personal, telephone and internet interviews.
