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QuickStats about Unpaid Work

Statistics New Zealand ,

QuickStats About Unpaid Work from Statistics New Zealand looks at the unpaid work of adults (aged 15 years and over) who usually live in New Zealand.

The information is based on New Zealand’s 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings. Respondents were asked to provide information about their participation in unpaid work in the four weeks prior to the census.

Unpaid work, as measured in the 2006 Census, can be broken into three broad categories: unpaid work that occurs within the household; unpaid work that occurs outside the household; and other voluntary work through an organisation, group or marae.

QuickStats tells us:

• 92 percent of women engaged in unpaid work in the reference period compared with 86 percent of males.
• 35 percent of females looked after a child living within their own household, compared with 27 percent of males.
• 9 percent of females looked after someone in their own household who was ill or disabled, compared with 6 percent of males.
• 21 percent of females looked after a child who did not live within their own household, compared with 6 percent of males. 66 percent of those helping someone who was ill or who had a disability living outside their own household were female.
• Māori and Pacific females were significantly more likely than females within any other ethnic group to care for others living within their own household. 51 percent of Māori women and 48 percent of Pacific women cared for a child living within their own household, compared to 35 percent of females across the population overall.

More information can be viewed at
www.stats.govt.nz/NR/exeres/B7DB6448-5065-426C-8327-FBCBE234DDE3.htm

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