Volunteering
Ethnic differences
Young Māori were more likely than other young people aged 15 to 24 to have engaged in voluntary work for an organisation or marae in the four weeks prior to the 2006 Census.
According to the Census, 12.2 percent of Māori young people, 11.4 percent of Pacific young people, 9.4 percent of European young people, 7.9 percent of Asian and 7.5 percent of young people of other ethnicities had engaged in this type of voluntary work in the past four weeks.
Proportion of young people aged 15 to 24 that participated in formal voluntary work in the past 4 weeks, by ethnicity, 2006
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census. Note: The category European includes ‘New Zealander’ responses, in accordance with Statistics New Zealand practice for previous Censuses.
Note: We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
