4156.0 - Sports and Physical Recreation: A Statistical Overview, Australia, 2009  
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Contents >> Chapter 9 - Volunteers in sport >> Family and household type

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD TYPE

Families consisting of a couple with children aged under 15 are the most common source of all volunteers (1.8 million or 35% of all volunteers). This is followed by families consisting of a couple only who contributed a further 1.4 million or 27% of all volunteers.

Persons who were part of couples families with dependents (both with children under 15 and dependent students) also had greater proportions of volunteering for total sport organisations compared to persons who were part of other family types. Of the 1.7 million total sport volunteers more than half (887,400 or 52%) of the volunteers came from couple families with dependents. This was followed by 23% (397,500) of total sport volunteers living in a couple only household.

9.3 Sport and physical recreation and other volunteers, By family and household type - 2006
Sport & physical recreation organisation(s) only
Sport & physical recreation and other organisation(s)
Total sport & physical recreation organisation(s)
Other organisations only
Total volunteers
Volunteers ('000)
Couple family with children aged under 15
308.9
388.6
697.5
1 117.5
1 815.0
Couple family with dependent students
113.2
76.7
189.9
212.9
402.8
Couple family with non-dependents
78.7
*43.9
122.5
268.4
390.9
Couple only family
277.7
119.8
397.5
1 028.6
1 426.1
One parent family with children aged under 15
*21.2
46.7
67.9
144.6
212.5
One parent family with dependent students
*8.6
*4.9
*13.6
45.7
59.3
One parent family with non-dependents
*25.4
**3.4
*28.7
101.0
129.7
Other family(a)
**9.7
**0.2
**9.9
*35.1
*45.0
Total family households
843.3
684.2
1 527.5
2 953.8
4 481.3
Lone person household
78.9
43.1
122.0
402.8
524.8
Other households(b)
45.5
17.7
63.3
157.2
220.5
Total other households
124.4
60.8
185.3
560.0
745.3
Total
967.7
745.1
1 712.8
3 513.7
5 226.5
Volunteers (%)
Couple family with children aged under 15
31.9
52.2
40.7
31.8
34.7
Couple family with dependent students
11.7
10.3
11.1
6.1
7.7
Couple family with non-dependents
8.1
*5.9
7.2
7.6
7.5
Couple only family
28.7
16.1
23.2
29.3
27.3
One parent family with children aged under 15
*2.2
6.3
4.0
4.1
4.1
One parent family with dependent students
*0.9
*0.7
*0.8
1.3
1.1
One parent family with non-dependents
*2.6
**0.5
*1.7
2.9
2.5
Other family(a)
**1.0
** -
**0.6
*1.0
*0.9
Total family households
87.1
91.8
89.2
84.1
85.7
Lone person household
8.2
5.8
7.1
11.5
10.0
Other households(b)
4.7
2.4
3.7
4.5
4.2
Total other households
12.9
8.2
10.8
15.9
14.3
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Volunteer rate (%)
Couple family with children aged under 15
7.9
7.4
17.8
28.5
46.4
Couple family with dependent students
10.9
2.8
18.2
20.4
38.7
Couple family with non-dependents
5.0
*2.8
7.8
17.1
24.9
Couple only family
6.0
2.6
8.7
22.4
31.0
One parent family with children aged under 15
*3.8
8.3
12.1
25.8
37.9
One parent family with dependent students
*4.3
*2.5
*6.8
23.0
29.8
One parent family with non-dependents
*4.5
**0.6
*5.1
17.8
22.8
Other family(a)
**5.2
**0.1
**5.3
*18.9
*24.2
Total family households
6.7
5.4
12.1
23.4
35.5
Lone person household
4.1
2.2
6.3
20.7
27.0
Other households(b)
6.2
2.4
8.6
21.5
30.1
Total other households
4.7
2.3
6.9
20.9
27.9
Total
6.3
4.9
11.2
23.0
34.1
* estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution
** estimate has a relative standard error greater than 50% and is considered too unreliable for general use
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Includes families with related individuals.
(b) Includes group households and household types not classifiable.








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