Social impact importance for wealthy Europeans in 2014

This statistic presents the importance assigned to actions that can result in social impact by a group of high net worth individuals in selected European countries as of the first quarter of 2014. In Spain and Italy over 26 percent and 24 percent of that group, respectively, assigned an extremely high importance to having positive social impact.

High net worth individuals perception of social impact importance in selected European countries as of the 1st quarter 2014

Characteristic	Extremely important	Very important
Spain	26.4%	33.3%
Italy	24.6%	41.4%
United Kingdom	22.9%	37.3%
Belgium	18.6%	12.9%
Germany	18%	45.4%
France	17.6%	34.1%
Switzerland	15%	36.9%
Netherlands	7.1%	40%

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Release date

June 2014

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

1st quarter 2014

Number of respondents

4,500 respondents

Special properties

HNW individuals in 23 countries

Supplementary notes

Figures presented refer to share of respondents who consider social impact either extremely important or very important.
The source adds further comments about the question asked: “How important is it to you to give time, money and/or expertise with the goal of generating positive social impact”? Respondents were asked to rate among five levels of importance: (1) This is extremely important (i.e. critical); (2) This is very important; (3) This is important; (4) This is somewhat important; and (5) This is not important at all. "
The world wealth report defines high net worth individuals as individuals who hold at least 1 million U.S. dollars in financial assets.

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