Notes of a  presentation to ASSR September 2007 Forum by Andrew Rae (Stats NZ) and Diana Suggate (OCVS – MSD) about Classifying New Zealand’s Non-Profit Sector For Comparability with International Standards.

Context

Diana Suggate, Senior Analyst at the Ministry of Social Development’s Office for the Community & Voluntary Sector, and Andrew Rae, representing Statistics New Zealand’s Non-Profit Institutions team, were part of a research effort that brought together Stats NZ, MSD, Massey University, and private researchers in an ambitious international drive to map the non-profit institutions of more than 40 countries.

Non-profit institutions contribute almost 5% to the country’s gross domestic product in 2004, and marshal the efforts of more than a million New Zealanders—half of whom made a habit of volunteerism. These findings were part of a presentation to the September Forum by two researchers working across departmental boundaries to produce a taxonomy of the New Zealand non-profit sector. The taxonomy will then become an essential reference for policy makers and help to drive policy.

The New Zealand team also consulted an expert advisory committee that included Not-for-Profit Sector representatives, several academics, Maori community advisors, and others. The team met an important benchmark a month ago in launching the New Zealand Satellite Account through Stats NZ. Just what a satellite account is, what it allows one to discern, and how the team constituted it, provided the body of the Forum presentation.

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