SERVICE INDUSTRIES SURVEY
Some information about employment in sports and physical recreation industries is available from the Service Industries Survey which includes within its scope businesses classified to the 1993 ANZSIC Group 931 Sport. For the 2000-01 survey, the scope was limited to employing organisations. However, for 2004-05, the scope was extended to include significant non-employing organisations. These were defined as being those with turnover in 2004-05 of $135,000 or more.
Many smaller sports clubs have no employees and hence were excluded from the 2000-01 survey along with self-employed persons operating without employees. The change in scope for 2004-05 meant that those turning over at least $135,000 were now included. For more information obtained from the Service Industries Survey, see Industries.
The Service Industries Survey provides data about persons employed in sports and physical recreation regardless of their occupation or whether it was their main job. It also provides information about voluntary work. The data include all persons who were employed or did voluntary work, regardless of their age. Other surveys focus on persons aged 18 years and over (e.g. the Voluntary Work Survey), or persons aged 15 years and over (e.g. the Survey of Involvement in Organised Sport and Physical Activity).
To enable comparison with data from the 2000-01 survey, table 7.5 separates the 2004-05 data for employing and non-employing organisations. While it should be noted that the 2004-05 survey was not designed to support accurate estimates of change, it does appear that there have been increases in both the number of employing organisations and the number of persons employed, while volunteer numbers have waned. At the end of June 2005, non-employing organisations made up 11.5% of the total number of organisations providing sports and physical recreation services (9,256).
7.5 SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION SERVICES, By reference period |
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| 2000-01(a) | 2004-05 | |
| Employing organisations | Employing organisations | Non-employing organisations | Total | |
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| Number of organisations at end June | 7 147 | 8 191 | 1 064 | 9 256 | |
| Total employment at end June | 98 267 | 111 201 | ^319 | 111 519 | |
| Total volunteers during June | 178 837 | 163 706 | ^18 126 | 181 832 | |
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| ^ estimate has a relative standard error of 10% to less than 25% and should be used with caution |
| (a) Estimates for 2000-01 do not include data for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Sydney Olympics and the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee Limited. |
| Source: Sports Industries, Australia, 2004-05 (cat. no. 8686.0). |
The 9,256 organisations (including 600 government agencies) providing sports and physical recreation services employed a total of 111,519 persons and received help from 181,832 volunteers during June 2005. Not-for-profit organisations accounted for 41.7% of the paid employment and 95.9% of the volunteers.
7.6 SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION SERVICES, By sector - 2004-05 |
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| SECTOR | |
| For profit | Not for profit | Government | Total | |
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| Number of organisations at end June | 5 007 | 3 649 | 600 | 9 256 | |
| Total employment at end June | 53 917 | 46 552 | 11 051 | 111 519 | |
| Total volunteers during June | *7 480 | 174 351 | . . | 181 832 | |
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| * estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution |
| . . not applicable |
| Source: Sports Industries, Australia, 2004-05 (cat. no. 8686.0). |
The 2000-01 Service Industries Survey included questions about the occupations of employees and volunteers. However, these questions were not included in the 2004-05 survey. Hence the occupation data presented in the following two tables relate to employment and volunteering in June 2001 only.
Of the 87,448 persons employed in sports and physical recreation services at 30 June 2001, an estimated 40,212 (46.0%) worked in a sports related occupation. This figure included 20,862 (23.9%) Coaches, instructors, teachers and development officers; 8,503 (9.7%) Sports officials; 7,951 (9.1%) Professional sportspersons; and 2,896 (3.3%) in horse and dog racing occupations (Stablehands, strappers and handlers; Horse trainers; and Apprentice jockeys and trackwork riders). The remaining 47,236 (54.0%) worked in a range of other occupations such as Managers and administrators (13,543 or 15.5%); Curators, ground and other maintenance staff (5,982 or 6.8%); and Catering staff (5,189 or 5.9%).
7.7 EMPLOYMENT IN SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION SERVICES - 2000-01 |
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| | SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION VENUES | SPORTS AND SERVICES TO SPORT | |
| Horse and dog racing | Health/fitness centres and gymnasia | Other sports and physical recreation venues, grounds and facilities | Sports and physical recreation administrative organisations | Sports and physical recreation clubs, teams and sports professionals | Sports and physical recreation support services | |
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| Managers and administrative staff | 1 943 | 2 243 | 2 774 | 2 363 | 3 073 | 1 147 | |
| Marketing and event management staff | na | 227 | 370 | 361 | 469 | *192 | |
| Coaches/instructors/teachers/development officers | na | 7 829 | 2 238 | 1 251 | 3 409 | 6 135 | |
| Professional sports persons | 1 767 | - | **102 | 447 | 5 621 | *14 | |
| Sports officials | 1 159 | *132 | 1 463 | 5 749 | np | np | |
| Medical staff | na | na | na | 27 | np | np | |
| Curators, ground and other maintenance staff | 1 156 | 239 | 1 075 | 178 | 3 259 | *75 | |
| Bar managers and bar staff | 1 506 | **7 | 708 | 315 | 2 510 | - | |
| Gaming staff and cashiers | (a)1 011 | na | na | 52 | 194 | - | |
| Catering staff | 1 905 | 112 | 1 540 | 590 | 1 017 | **25 | |
| Security staff | 80 | na | na | *7 | *25 | - | |
| Other event day staff | 3 714 | 5 | 2 084 | 224 | np | np | |
| Horse trainers | 568 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
| Stablehands, strappers and handlers | 1 767 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
| Apprentice jockeys and trackwork riders | 561 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
| Other | 530 | 1 757 | 3 490 | 250 | 1 511 | 344 | |
| Total employment at end June | 15 900 | 12 552 | 15 842 | 11 814 | 23 312 | 8 028 | |
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| * 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 |
| . . not applicable |
| - nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) |
| na not available |
| np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated |
| (a) Includes 845 persons employed as totalisator operator staff. |
| Source: Sports Industries, Australia, 2000-01 (cat. no. 8686.0). |
The majority ( 170,329 or 95.2%) of all Sports and physical recreation services volunteers worked within Sports and services to sport. The largest number of volunteers ( 106,427 or 59.5%) undertook work for Sports and physical recreation administrative organisations (e.g. sporting associations and leagues) (table 7.8).
Within Sports and services to sport, the number of persons working as a volunteer Manager or administrator (37,572) outnumbered those in paid employment as a Manager or administrator (6,583), by over five to one. The majority of volunteers working within Sports and services to sport (84.6%) worked for organisations which employed fewer than 20 persons.
7.8 SPORTS AND SERVICES TO SPORT, Volunteers - 2000-01 |
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| Volunteers | Sports and physical recreation administrative organisations | Sports and physical recreation clubs, teams and sports professionals | Sports and physical recreation support services | Total | |
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| Managerial/administrative | 19 993 | 16 929 | 651 | 37 572 | |
| Teaching, coaching and instructing | 19 937 | *18 523 | *817 | 39 276 | |
| Officials | 35 338 | 10 814 | 182 | 46 334 | |
| Other | 31 161 | 15 684 | *302 | 47 147 | |
| Total during June | 106 427 | 61 950 | 1 952 | 170 329 | |
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| * estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution |
| Source: Sports Industries, Australia, 2000-01 (cat. no. 8686.0). |
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