In 2002, a survey was done by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) and it showed that only 14.9% of singaporeans had volunteered in either of the 13 selected sectors over the past 12 months, out of which, only a mere 8% are sports volunteers (approximately 49000 in numbers; there are 3000 CSC management committee volunteers and 697 NSA management committee volunteers; other volunterrs come from the 832 sports clubs in singapore). In general, based on findings of this national survey, there are various obstacles to vulunteerism. Hence, these are the areas which the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and all the stakeholders will have to address. The 4 most common reasons are:
tired/burnout(18%)
Too much responsibility(18%)
NO advancement(17%); and