Charity sector in the UK CAF estimate charitable giving in the UK in 2009/10 by individuals to be £12.6 billion with over 56% of adults donating to charitable causes (Charities Aid Foundation, 2010) . This was broken down in giving per donor per month as £12 as the median and £31 as the mean , this shows that high-level donors have a large impact on total giving as evidenced by the skewness , which is “the tendency of deviations from the mean to be larger in one direction than the other” (Malhotra, 2010: 488) . The recession has had an impact on charitable giving, 2008/9 saw a drop of 11% in total donations compared to 2007/8 as well as a drop in household donations to 54% (NCVO, 2009) , and this shows that although most people are still giving; everyone is giving slightly less. However, a clear rise in giving can be seen, in 2009/10 56% of households donated to charity, the same % as the pre-recession levels in 2007/8 (Charities Aid Foundation, 2008) . The total amount given ...
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