CLICK THE SPONSORS' LOGOS FOR THE LATEST SPECIALS !G GLOSSARY Home Index Volunteering [Vlt] Vlt in Qld Vlt via Org Vlt Census 2006 Future Vlt Qld References Methodology Acknowledgements Glossary Charts - 4 Figures - 2 Tables - 13 Disclaimer Copyright THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF VOLUNTEERING IN QUEENSLAND Updated report — May 2008
A report commissioned by the Department of Communities
Queensland Government
AUSTRALIA
G GLOSSARY AST - Adult Support (Unorganised Volunteering)
CST - Child Support (Unorganised Volunteering)
COE - Compensation of Employees
EPA - Economically Productive Activities
GSP - Gross State Product
HEY - Household Economy
HHS - Households
HRU - Households Research Unit
NAS - National Accounts
OVG - Organised Volunteering (Indirect volunteering)
QHS - Queensland Household Survey
SNA - Satellite National Accounts
TUS - Time Use Surveys
UVQ - Unorganised Volunteering (Direct Volunteering)
VWS - Voluntary Work Surveys
VOL - Volunteering
VTL - Volunteering Travel
VOS - Volunteer Organisations
VTI - Volunteer Time Inputs
Adult Support (Unorganised Volunteering)
The informal help and care given directly to the support of other adults including
the elderly, sick or disabled.
Child Support (Unorganised Volunteering)
The informal help and care given directly to the support of other people’s children.
Compensation of Employees
The total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an enterprise to an employee
in return for work done by the employee during the accounting period.
It is further classified into two sub-components: wages and salaries; and employers’
social contributions.
Compensation of employees is not payable in respect of unpaid work undertaken
voluntarily, including work done by members of a household within an unincorporated
enterprise owned by the same household.
Compensation of employees excludes any taxes payable by the employer on the wage and
salary bill (e.g. payroll tax).
Economically Productive Activities
Activities that result in the production of goods or the delivery of services,
including goods and services that are not sold, and goods and services that are
self-provided; includes preparation of meals, care of children and adults, volunteer
activities and time spent in educational activities.
Gross State Product
The value added by all the economic units operating within the borders of a State.
For a whole country this is known as Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
This value excludes the value added by the household economy. (See Household Economy)
Household Economy
The productive activities conducted by households using household capital and the
unpaid labour of their own members to process goods and provide services for the
use of their own or other households without payment.
Households
A person living alone or two or more persons living together as a single domestic
unit who make common provision for food and other essentials for living and occupy
the whole or part of one dwelling unit.
Households Research Unit
A research unit of the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne under the
direction of Dr Duncan Ironmonger.
National Accounts
The set of statistics of the economic activities of countries prepared and published
by national statistical organisations.
The system for presenting these statistics is determined from time to time by the
United Nations and published as the System of National Accounts (SNA).
The most recent revision of this system (1993) recommended that statistics of the
productive activities of households (the household economy) should by prepared by
national statistical offices as a set of ‘satellite’ accounts.
(See Satellite national accounts of household productive activities)
Organised volunteering (Indirect volunteering)
Unpaid help in the form of time, service or skills willingly given by an individual
through an organisation or group.
Formal or organised volunteering is indirect as it is mediated through an organisation.
Reimbursement of expenses or small gifts is not regarded as payment of salary.
Work reimbursed by payment in-kind is not regarded as volunteering.
Queensland Household Survey
This sample survey collects statistics from over 6,500 households throughout
Queensland, including the Greater Brisbane area and nine non-metropolitan regions.
The survey commenced in November 2000 and is conducted every May and November by
the Office of the Queensland Government Statistician, located in the Office of Economic
and Statistical Research of the Queensland Treasury.
The May 2004 survey collected data on volunteering through organisations at the request
of the Department of Communities.
Satellite National Accounts
Satellite national accounts of household productive activities
A set of statistical accounts of the productive activities of households that are
separate from, but consistent with, the main accounts of economic activity included
within the System of National Accounts. (See National accounts)
Time Use Surveys
Sample surveys of the uses of time recorded in 24-hour diaries by individuals in households.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted diary-based time use surveys in Sydney in
1987 and nation-wide in 1992, 1997 and 2006.
Unorganised Volunteering (Direct Volunteering)
The informal unpaid help and care that occurs within the personal networks of family, friends,
neighbours and acquaintances.
Informal or unorganised volunteering is direct as it is not mediated through an organisation.
It includes regular, spontaneous and sporadic help that takes place between friends and
neighbours such as giving advice, looking after other people’s children or helping an
elderly neighbour.
Voluntary Work Surveys
Sample surveys of the rates of participation in voluntary work through organisations, the
characteristics of people who volunteer, the types of organisations they work for and the
activities they undertake.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted voluntary work surveys in 1995, 2000 and
2006.
Volunteering
Volunteering consists of unpaid help and care in the form of time, service and skills willingly
given by an individual either:
1 formally and indirectly through an organisation or group (Organised Volunteering) or
2 informally and directly within the personal networks of family, friends, neighbours and
acquaintances (Unorganised Volunteering).
Travelling in connection with both organised and unorganised volunteering is part of volunteering.
(See Organised volunteering, Unorganised volunteering, and Volunteering travel)
Volunteering Travel
Time spent in travelling in connection with both organised and unorganised volunteering.
Volunteer Organisations
A diverse range of social, economic, political, environmental, recreational and cultural
organisations and groups, not limited to the not-for-profit welfare and community sectors.
Volunteers operate through schools, hospitals, sports clubs, museums, professional associations,
business groups, community legal support services and Neighbourhood Watch associations.
The ABS Voluntary Work Surveys defined an organisation or group as any body with a formal
structure.
It may be as large as a national charity or as small as a local book club.
Purely ad hoc, informal and temporary gatherings of people did not constitute an organisation
for the ABS Voluntary Work Surveys.
Volunteer Time Inputs
The time spent by volunteers in carrying out volunteer activities, including the time taken to
travel to, from and during these activities.
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