Survey: Volunteering and jobs in Achim
(177 Year 9 and 78 Year 10 students handed in their questionnaires)
1) Do you do volunteer work?
- Yes: 25% / 13%
- No: 75% / 87%
2) If you do not, why?
- No time: 50% / 74%
- Do not want to: 24% / 25%
- other reasons: 26% / 1%
(no money, nothing interesting, just moved here, could not find anything)
3) Have you ever done volunteer work?
- Yes: 46% / 40%
- No: 38% / 59%
4) Approximate hours spent in a year on volunteer work.
- Once a year: 16% / 18%
- Twice a year: 17% / 11%
- Once a month: 10% / 27%
- Once a week: 36% / 11%
- More often: 21% / 33%
5) What activities are you engaged in?
- Year 9: church work, fire brigade, sports clubs, family help, garage, swimming pool,
dance coach, golf coach, Red Cross
- Year 10: babysitting, church work, dog walking, household, refereeing, collecting
paper, reading, fire brigade, sports coach, collecting rubbish
6) Have you got a job?
- Yes: 27% / 43%
- No: 57% / 57%
7) If not, why?
- No time: 53% / 70%
- Do not want to work: 23% / 16%
- Others: 24% / 14%
(too young, no qualifications, have not found anything, do not need to work)
8) If yes, which job?
- Doing paper rounds: 55% / 15%
- Babysitting: 40% / 33%
- Tutoring: 4% / 30%
- Others: 1% / 22%
(petrol station, mowing lawns, pizza delivery service, waiting tables, supermarket, fast food restaurants, etc.)
9) Hours per week spent working:
- Year 9: between 1 hour per week and 10 hours per week
- Year 10: between 1 hour per week and 12 hours per week