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THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF VOLUNTEERING IN QUEENSLAND
Prepared by Dr Duncan IRONMONGER
Households Research Unit
Department of Economics
The University of Melbourne
Updated report May 2008
A report commissioned by the Department of Communities
Queensland Government
AUSTRALIA
C VOLUNTEERING IN QUEENSLAND THROUGH ORGANISATIONS
a Value volunteering via organisations worth $1.7 billion 1992 & $4.5 billion in 2006
b Cost estimates of replacing volunteers in service delivery environments
a Value volunteering via organisations worth $1.7 billion 1992 & $4.5 billion 2006
Volunteering through organisations was worth $1.7 billion in 1992 and $2.0 billion in 1995.
This value increased by more than 31 per cent in the five years from 1995 to 2000 between
Voluntary Work Surveys and a further 123 per cent to $5.9 billion in the next four years
using data from the 2004 Queensland Household Survey.
However, in 2006, indirect or formal volunteering through organisations was worth about
$4.5 billion to the Queensland economy, an apparent decline of $1.4 billion.
The large value in 2004 is mainly due to the survey methodology.
Respondents in the 2004 Queensland Household Survey were asked about the hours of organised
volunteering per week/fortnight/month which was different to the ABS Voluntary Work
Surveys.
Specifically in the Queensland 2004 survey respondents were asked On average, how many
hours per week/fortnight/month did you usually spend doing unpaid voluntary work?
These weekly, fortnightly or monthly responses were converted to hours per month and then to
hours per year.
The ABS surveys asked for an estimate of total hours per year.
It seems that respondents have a more complete memory of volunteer hours over the shorter
period of a week or a month than over a full year.
Table 8 shows more detailed estimates of the structure of the total value of volunteering
through organisations in Queensland in 2004.
Women in Queensland contributed an estimated $3.2 billion of time and other inputs to
volunteer organisations in 2004.
In contrast, Queensland mens donation was worth about $2.7 billion.
The higher value for women is almost entirely due to the higher volunteering rate of women
41 per cent compared to 35 per cent for men.
On average, a volunteer man gave slightly more volunteering time per year than a woman
volunteer, 216 hours compared with 213 hours.
The younger age group, 18 to 34 years, had a lower volunteering rate and gave fewer hours
per year as a volunteer.
Out of the $5.9 billion, middle-aged people gave about $3.6 billion of volunteering to
organisations in Queensland in 2004.
Although retired Queenslanders had lower rates of volunteering than any other labour
market status group on average 37 per cent a retired volunteer gave a high number
of hours per year 289 35 per cent more than the average volunteer in Queensland
(214 hours).
Adults in paid market work contributed about $2.9 billion and those not in paid work
$3.0 billion worth of volunteering in 2004.
Table 8: Value of volunteering through organisations Queensland 2004
Annual Value of Volunteering
Annual Value
Queensland Annual Annual Annual of Volunteering
Population Pop Volteer Number of Hours
Group (000) Rate Volunteers Per Value Per Total
% (000) Volunteer Volunteer Value
$ $ million
All Adults 18+ 2,926 38% 1,107 214 5,335 5,910
Gender
Women 1,477 41% 607 213 5,296 3,215
Men 1,449 35% 501 216 5,383 2,695
Age group (years)
18-34 944 35% 333 161 4,013 1,334
35-64 1,541 41% 626 232 5,779 3,613
65 + 441 34% 148 259 6,457 953
Labour market status
Not in paid work
Retired 539 37% 199 289 7,189 1,430
F/t home duties 312 45% 140 227 5,713 801
Other 330 49% 162 200 5,006 814
In paid work
Self-employed 247 43% 107 229 5,701 608
Work full-time 956 29% 273 199 4,980 1,360
Work p-t/casual 542 42% 227 158 3,954 897
Birthplace
Australia 2,295 39% 886 219 5,485 4,857
NZ, UK, Ireland 338 33% 112 238 5,949 669
Rest of world 293 37% 109 141 3,501 383
Annual income
Less $11,000 759 43% 326 265 6,593 2,150
$11,000< $31,000 1,169 38% 441 216 5,375 2,370
$31,000< $51,000 557 30% 168 155 3,855 647
$51,000 or more 321 37% 119 162 4,035 481
Dont know 120 45% 54 195 4,855 261
Location
Brisbane 1,352 38% 518 198 4,934 2,570
Outside Brisbane 1,574 37% 589 227 5,645 3,340
Source: Estimates of the Households Research Unit based on analysis of the unit record
file of the Queensland Household Survey 2004.
Adjusted to ABS estimated resident population for Queensland at 30 June 2004.
Regional Queenslanders contributed approximately $3.3 billion to their communities in
terms of organised volunteering.
Volunteering through organisations of those living in Brisbane was estimated at
$2.6 billion.
Although the volunteer rate was slightly higher in Brisbane than across the balance of
the state, on average Brisbane volunteers gave 13 per cent fewer hours per year 198
compared with 227.
Table 9: Value of volunteering through organisations, Queensland Regions 2004
Annual Value
Queensland Annual Annual Annual of Volunteering
Statistical Pop Volteer Number of Hours
Division (000) Rate Volunteers Per Value Per Total
% (000) Volunteer Volunteer Value
$ $ million
All Adults 18+ 2,926 38% 1,107 214 5,335 5,910
Brisbane 1,352 38% 518 198 4,934 2,570
Outside Brisbane 1,524 37% 589 227 5,646 3,340
North & West
Moreton 277 45% 124 242 6,028 749
Western 50 42% 21 104 2,596 55
Fitzroy 130 42% 55 181 4,504 249
Darling Downs 160 39% 63 233 5,833 367
Wide Bay Burnett 190 38% 73 265 6,603 481
Mackay 102 38% 39 222 5,534 213
South & East
Moreton 357 33% 117 242 6,057 708
Far North 163 33% 54 230 5,756 309
Northern 144 32% 46 194 4,831 223
Source: Estimates of the Households Research Unit based on analysis of the unit record
file of the Queensland Household Survey 2004.
Adjusted to ABS estimated resident population for Queensland at 30 June 2004.
Table 10 shows estimates of the organised volunteering rates, volunteers and value of
organised volunteering for gender and location in Queensland from the 2006 ABS
Voluntary Work Survey.
The volunteer rates are very similar to the Queensland 2004 Survey of organised
volunteering, with women having a higher volunteer rate than men.
However, the number of hours of volunteering recorded in the 2006 survey is well down
on the 2004 numbers.
Average hours per volunteer recorded in 2004 were 214 per year but only 138 in 2006.
As mentioned before, the different survey methodologies are thought to be responsible
for this reduction.
Table 10: Value of volunteering through organisations, Queensland 2006
Annual Value
Queensland Annual Annual Annual of Volunteering
Population Pop Volteer Number of Hours
Group (000) Rate Volunteers Per Value Per Total
% (000) Volunteer Volunteer Value
$ $ million
All Adults 18+ 2,959 38% 1,118 138 3,997 4,469
3,735 4,176
Gender
Women 1,485 40% 596 145 3,937 2,343
Men 1,468 36% 523 129 3,505 1,833
Location
Brisbane 1,367 37.8% 517 141 3,836 1,983
Women 699 40.4% 282 133 3,603 1,016
Men 668 35.1% 235 152 4,116 967
Outside Brisbane 1,587 37.9% 601 134 3,649 2,193
Women 787 39.8% 313 156 4,241 1,327
Men 800 36.0% 288 111 3,008 866
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Voluntary Work, Australia (2007) Cat No 4441.0
and estimates of the Households Research Unit.
These estimates have not been adjusted to the estimated resident population of Queensland
at 30 June 2006.
The latest estimate of the estimated resident population of adults aged 18+ in Queensland at
30 June 2006 is 3,084,800 comprising 1,558,700 women and 1,526,100 men.
b Cost estimates of replacing volunteers in service delivery environments
Volunteers provide their time and other inputs through a variety of organisations, some
such as the State Emergency Services and government schools are essentially publicly
oriented and funded and others such as religious organisations and sporting clubs are
essentially privately oriented and funded.
The voluntary work surveys do not categorise the organisations for whom volunteers work as
either private or public but do give an indication of the type of organisation.
These service providing organisations can be divided approximately into those which are likely
to have a large element of public funding and those not, as shown in Table 11.
Table 11: Volunteer work through organisations, Queensland, 2004
Type of Organisation Volunteer Annual Annual Annual
rate % Number of Volunteer Value of
Volunteers Hours Volunteering
Women Men Adult (000) million $m
Publicly oriented -
Community 13.1 10.9 12.0 351 50.1 1,247
Education/training/
youth development 15.0 6.9 11.0 319 44.3 1,103
Health 5.6 3.6 4.6 134 22.6 562
Welfare 4.8 3.3 4.1 118 18.1 451
Emergency services 0.7 1.8 1.3 37 12.1 300
Environmental/animal
welfare 1.2 1.7 1.5 43 7.2 179
Privately oriented -
Sport/recreation 5.6 7.1 6.3 185 28.4 707
Religious 5.2 4.2 4.7 137 21.2 527
Arts/culture 1.5 1.4 1.5 43 8.0 198
Business/professional/
union 0.8 1.5 1.1 33 7.7 191
Foreign/international 1.2 0.7 1.0 28 4.0 99
Law/justice/political 0.4 0.8 0.6 16 2.1 52
Other 1.4 2.2 1.8 51 11.8 294
Total 56.4 a 46.1 a 51.3 a 1,496 a
Total 41.1 b 34.5 b 37.9 b 1,107 b 237.6 c 5,910 c
(a) Counting multiple volunteering for more than one type of organisation.
(b) Counting each volunteer once only.
(c) Hours allocated equally between types when more than one type of organisation worked for.
Source: Estimates of the Households Research Unit based on analysis of the unit record
file of the Queensland Household Survey 2004.
Adjusted to ABS estimated resident population for Queensland at 30 June 2004.
About two-thirds (65 per cent) of the annual value of volunteering through organisations
in 2004 was contributed to those with a public orientation.
Community organisations benefited to the tune of $1.2 billion, education, training and youth
development organisations by $1.1 billion and health and welfare by another $1.0 billion.
The cost of replacing volunteering across all the publicly oriented service providers in
2004 is estimated at $3.8 billion.
The largest type of volunteer organisation providing privately oriented services was sports
and recreation organisations with $707 million worth of volunteering in 2004.
About $527 million of volunteering was undertaken for religious groups.
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