EMPLOYMENT AND VOLUNTARY WORK
SERVICE INDUSTRIES SURVEY 2000-01
Some information about employment in sports and physical recreation industries is available from the 2000-01 Service Industries Survey which included within its scope businesses classified to ANZSIC Group 931 Sport. As with the Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, the scope of the survey was limited to employing businesses. Many sports clubs have no employees and hence would have been excluded from the survey along with self-employed persons not employing any wage or salary earners. More information obtained from the Service Industries Survey is presented in 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 (the Voluntary Work Survey), or persons aged 15 years and over (the Survey of Involvement in Organised Sport and Physical Activity).
The Service Industries Survey found that, at the end of June 2001, there were 6,517 employing organisations involved in the provision of sports and physical recreation services (excluding government agencies). They employed a total of 87,448 persons and received help from almost 180,000 volunteers in the month of June 2001. Over half (56.9%) of all paid employees, and almost all (97.5%) volunteers, worked for not-for-profit organisations.
7.5 SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION INDUSTRIES, By sector - 2000-01 |
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| SECTOR | |
| For profit | Not for profit | Total | |
| |
| Number of organisations at end June | 3 668 | 2 849 | 6 517 | |
| Total employment at end June | 37 705 | 49 743 | 87 448 | |
| Total volunteers during June | 4 404 | 174 433 | 178 837 | |
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| Source: Sports Industries, Australia, 2000-01 (cat. no. 8686.0). |
Over a quarter (26.7%, or 23,312 persons) of those employed in sports and physical recreation industries undertook work within the Sports and physical recreation clubs, teams and sports professionals industry. There were 15,900 persons (18.2%) working for the Horse and dog racing industry.
Of the 87,448 persons employed in sports and physical recreation industries, an estimated 40,212 (46.0%) worked in a sports related occupation, including 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%) persons employed in sports related occupations in the Horse and dog industry (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%).
7.6 EMPLOYMENT IN SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION INDUSTRIES - 2000-01 |
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| | SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION VENUES | SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION SERVICES | |
| 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 | |
| |
| 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 volunteers worked within the Sports and physical recreation services industry. The largest number of volunteers (106,427 or 59.5%) undertook voluntary work for Sports and physical recreation administrative organisations (e.g. sporting associations and leagues) (table 7.7).
Within the Sport and physical recreation services industry, 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 for the Sports and physical recreation services industry (84.6%) worked for organisations which employed fewer than 20 persons.
7.7 SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION SERVICES INDUSTRY, 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 | |
| |
| 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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