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FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD TYPE

Families consisting of a couple with no children aged under 15 years old were the most common source of all volunteers (2.7 million or 44% of all volunteers). This was followed by families consisting of a couple with children aged under 15 years old, who contributed a further 1.9 million or 32% of all volunteers.

People who were part of couple families (both with children under 15 years old and no children under 15 years old) also had greater proportions of volunteers for total sport organisations compared with people who were part of other family types. Of the 2.3 million total sport volunteers, nearly half (961,800 or 42%) of the volunteers came from couple families with children aged under 15 years. This was followed by 39% (879,000) of total sport volunteers living in couple families with no children aged under 15 years.

5.3 Sport and Physical Recreation and Other Volunteers, By family and household type - 2010
	Sport & physical recreation organisation(s) only	Sport & physical recreation and other organisation(s)	Total sport & physical recreation organisation(s)	Other organisation(s) only	Total volunteers	Not a volunteer	Total persons aged 18 years & over
Volunteers ('000)
Couple family with children under 15 years	368.4	593.4	961.8	987.0	1 948.8	2 178.2	4 126.9
Couple family with no children under 15 years	503.0	376.0	879.0	1 827.9	2 706.8	5 283.0	7 989.8
One parent family with children under 15 years	*19.9	66.4	86.3	139.0	225.3	373.6	598.9
One parent family with no children under 15 years	*52.4	*60.1	*112.5	171.6	284.1	583.6	867.7
Other family(a)	**8.1	**5.6	*13.7	*42.4	*56.1	154.8	210.8
Total family households	951.8	1 101.5	2 053.3	3 167.8	5 221.1	8 573.2	13 794.2
Unrelated individual living in a family household	**18.0	-	**18.0	**22.2	**40.1	*158.0	*198.1
Group household member	**14.7	*23.4	*38.1	102.4	140.5	464.2	604.7
Lone person	69.7	88.7	158.4	524.1	682.5	1 508.6	2 191.0
Total other households	102.4	112.0	214.4	648.7	863.1	2 130.8	2 993.9
Total	1 054.2	1 213.6	2 267.7	3 816.5	6 084.2	10 703.9	16 788.2
Volunteers (%)
Couple family with children under 15 years	34.9	48.9	42.4	25.9	32.0	20.3	24.6
Couple family with no children under 15 years	47.7	31.0	38.8	47.9	44.5	49.4	47.6
One parent family with children under 15 years	*1.9	5.5	3.8	3.6	3.7	3.5	3.6
One parent family with no children under 15 years	*5.0	*5.0	*5.0	4.5	4.7	5.5	5.2
Other family(a)	**0.8	**0.5	*0.6	*1.1	*0.9	1.4	1.3
Total family households	90.3	90.8	90.5	83.0	85.8	80.1	82.2
Unrelated individual living in a family household	**1.7	-	**0.8	**0.6	**0.7	*1.5	*1.2
Group household member	**1.4	*1.9	*1.7	2.7	2.3	4.3	3.6
Lone person	6.6	7.3	7.0	13.7	11.2	14.1	13.1
Total other households	9.7	9.2	9.5	17.0	14.2	19.9	17.8
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Volunteer rate (%)
Couple family with children under 15 years	8.9	14.4	23.3	23.9	47.2	52.8	100.0
Couple family with no children under 15 years	6.3	4.7	11.0	22.9	33.9	66.1	100.0
One parent family with children under 15 years	*3.3	11.1	14.4	23.2	37.6	62.4	100.0
One parent family with no children under 15 years	*6.0	*6.9	13.0	19.8	32.7	67.3	100.0
Other family(a)	**3.8	**2.7	**6.5	*20.1	*26.6	73.4	100.0
Total family households	6.9	8.0	14.9	23.0	37.8	62.2	100.0
Unrelated individual living in a family household	**9.1	-	**9.1	**11.2	**20.3	79.7	100.0
Group household member	**2.4	*3.9	*6.3	16.9	23.2	76.8	100.0
Lone person	3.2	4.0	7.2	23.9	31.1	68.9	100.0
Total other households	3.4	3.7	7.2	21.7	28.8	71.2	100.0
Total	6.3	7.2	13.5	22.7	36.2	63.8	100.0
* 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 where one of the family members is out of scope.
Source: Volunteers in Sport, Australia, 2010 (cat. no. 4440.0.55.001).