According to a report commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior, in 2000, 31 % of volunteers were aged 40 to 59. A survey conducted that year by NTU's Department of Sociology on volunteering among teenagers in Taiwan indicated that only 6.2 % of youngsters aged 15 to 18 had ever performed any volunteer work.
根據內政部報告指出，在二○○○年的志工年齡層中，四十至五十九歲者佔 31％，而台大社會系同年所做的「台灣地區青少年參與志願服務工作現況」調查，十五歲到十八歲的台灣青少年，更只有 6.2％曾經參加過志願服務。