Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2017, 65(2), 429-440 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201765020429

Main and Economic Activity of Non-Profit Organizations from the Point of Individual Legal Forms

Marie Jakubcová1, Klára Placier2
1 Independant researcher
2 Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Lipová 507/41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The article focuses on data, gathered from non-governmental non-profit organizations (NGOs) seated on the territory of the Czech Republic. Data collected from NGOs defined also by their legal form (association, subsidiary association, public benefit corporation, church legal entity) helped to monitor the structure of main and economic activity of organizations. In the article, the mutual differences in the main and economic activity of NGOs are analysed. The link between legal form and selected categories of main activities according to the classification COPNI has been verified by the Fisher's exact test with p-values computed by Monte Carlo simulations using 2,000 replications. Furthermore, this test has been used to prove statistically significant dependency between the individual categories of main and economic activities. On the basis of a conclusive statistical survey at the level 5 %, the dependency between legal form of non-governmental non-profit organization and its main activity has been verified as well as the correlation between main and economic activities of associations.

Keywords: main activity, economic activity, classification COPNI, non-profit organizations, legal form
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The article is the part of the project [Nr. 14-06856S] "Vliv veřejných financí na strukturu zdrojů a produkci neziskových institucí" (The Influence of Public Finance on the Structure of Resources and Production of Non-Profit Institutions) financed by Grantová agentura České republiky (Czech Science Foundation).

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Jakubcová, M., & Placier, K. (2017). Main and Economic Activity of Non-Profit Organizations from the Point of Individual Legal Forms. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 65(2), 429-440. doi: 10.11118/actaun201765020429
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