Pacific Profiles - Cook Island Maori
Cook Island Maori - Unpaid Work
- In 2001, 85 percent of Cook Island Maori adults reported involvement in unpaid or voluntary activities in the four weeks preceding the census – either inside or outside the home. This work included household work, looking after a child or ill person, as well as working for a community group.
- New Zealand-born Cook Island Maori were more likely to be involved in unpaid work than overseas-born Cook Island Maori (87 percent compared with 83 percent).
- In 2001, 85 percent of Cook Island Maori women and 77 percent of Cook Island Maori men reported participation in household work (including cooking, repairs and gardening), as figure 7.1 shows.
- Looking after a child in the home was the next most common category (50 percent of Cook Island Maori women and 37 percent of Cook Island Maori men) – with the relatively youthful Cook Island Maori population being a contributing factor.
- Cook Island Maori women were more likely to participate in all categories of unpaid work than Cook Island Maori men, as can be seen in figure 7.1.
