This report from Hill Strategies Research’s Statistical Insights on the Arts series provides an in-depth examination of the working lives of artists in Canada, including statistics on: the overall number of artists (over 180,000, more than auto workers or utilities workers), artists by occupation and industry, demographic information, and incomes.
Read MoreMakingItWork: Pathways Toward Sustainable Cultural Careers→
/This report from WorkInCulture profiles Ontario's Culture Sector labour market at an individual and organizational level, and identifies the challenges and opportunities the sector is facing, and recommends ways to move forward.
Read MoreThe Equity Census: Staging the Future→
/Based on a survey of 3,156 members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA) in 2015, this report includes extensive demographic information as well as members’ views and experiences of barriers to employment.
Read More2017 Arts Professionals Survey→
/The Calgary Arts Professionals Survey aimed “to learn how art is made in Calgary, what the lifestyle patterns and living conditions are for those working in the arts, and how Calgary is perceived as a supporter of arts activity”, based on a survey of 721 arts professionals. A key finding of the survey is that 53% of respondents had gross individual incomes below $35,000 in 2016.
Read MoreDiminishing Returns: Creative Culture at Risk→
/The Writers’ Union of Canada’s 2018 income survey. The declining incomes of writers (from writing) is a key finding of the report. The survey found that, in 2017, “the average net income from writing was $9,380, while the median net income was less than $4,000”.
Read MoreTrade of Culture and Sport Products, 2016→
/An extension of Statistics Canada’s Canadian Culture Satellite Account and the Provincial and Territorial Culture Satellite Indicators, that monetizes the exports and imports of culture in Canada and compares cultural exports between the provinces. Canadian cultural exports ($16.0 billion) represented 2.5% of all exports from Canada in 2016. Imports of culture products were $20.8 billion, or 3.1% of all imports to Canada in 2016.
Read MoreThe Status of Women in the Canadian Arts and Cultural Industries: Research Review 2010-18→
/A review of the existing research on the status of women in the arts and cultural industries in Canada (with a particular focus on Ontario) commissioned by the Ontario Arts Council. Covers six sectors: visual arts, dance, theatre, literature, music, and media arts/screen. Key findings include employment inequality (divided by sector) and a gender-based income gap, despite equivalency in education and training.
Read More2017 Cultural Infrastructure Index→
/Study to measure investment in capital projects in the cultural sector finds that 107 new cultural facilities opened across the world in 2017, costing a combined $9.9 billion, up from the $8.45 billion spent in 2016.
Read MoreTourism Spending on Culture and Sport Products, 2016→
/Statistics Canada’s first series on tourism spending on culture, which reports that tourism spending on culture products increased by $49.7 million from 2015 to $1.7 billion in 2016. Live performance alone accounted for more than a third of all expenses by international visitors, totalling $220 billion.
Read MoreTourism Spending on Culture and Sport Products, 2016→
/Table of the total (domestic and export) spending by tourists in Canada on culture and sport products. Compares 2016 to previous years, and finds that tourism spending on culture products increased by $49.7 million from 2015 to $1.7 billion in 2016. Of their expenditures on culture products, tourists spent the most on performing arts, which includes attending concerts and plays, followed by film and video, crafts and books.
Read More2016 MBNCanada Performance Measurement Report→
/Compares 173 measures of municipal activities in 36 service areas of Canada in 2016, one of which is culture. Eight municipalities report data on their cultural grants and overall cultural expenditures (Calgary, Greater Sudbury, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Windsor). Includes graphs and infographics.
Read MoreThe New Urban Success: How Culture Pays→
/Working off the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract "the creative class" and end up being economically successful, the report mines data from the photo-sharing site Flickr to reveal that a combination of cultural capital and economic capital is indicative of neighborhood growth in terms of house prices, and improvements of socio-economic conditions.
Read MoreBuilding the Case for Business Support of the Arts →
/Research conducted by Business for the Arts, finds that more than half of Canadians favour businesses that invest in arts and culture. Canadians are more likely to choose arts and culture events over sports, and to keep up with this growing interest, business investment in the arts has increased by 49 per cent since 2008. Report includes a literature review on the benefits of arts engagement.
Read MorePanic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries→
/Report finds that the cultural and creative sector in the UK is marked by significant exclusions of those from working class social origins. Women, and those from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities face barriers in addition to those associated with social class origin. These inequalities are reinforced by the prevalence of unpaid labour.
Read MoreProvincial and Territorial Culture Indicators 2016 for British Columbia→
/Shared with the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture for a BC-specific audience. The folder contains a presentation from Canadian Heritage on what the Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators are and key highlights from the report, including statistics and infographics for BC; the new Culture, Arts, Heritage and Sport Economic Impact Model, with its User Guide; and a User Guide and Training Presentation on Statistics Canada’s CANSIM Tables.
Read MoreMore than Money: How social finance can build resilience in the arts sector→
/Explores how social finance can be applied to the arts to build resilience in the Canadian arts sector. Puts forward the case for greater visibility of the arts as an ‘investable’ sector.
Read MoreProvincial and Territorial Culture Indicators, 2016→
/Measures the economic contribution of culture and sport in Canada, nationally and by province. This 2016 report finds that culture GDP in Canada totalled $53.8 billion in 2016, a 1.5% increase from the previous year. Culture accounted for 2.8% of Canada's overall GDP, and culture jobs in Canada were up 2.2% to 652,406.
Read MoreCreative Industries are now Worth £92 billion to the UK→
/Summarizes figures from the DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2016 that show the creative industries grew at twice the rate of the wider economy in the UK in 2015-2016. The sector is now worth £91.8bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK - more than the automotive, life sciences, aerospace and oil and gas industries combined.
Read MoreContribution of the Arts and Culture Industry to the UK economy→
/2017 assessment of the macroeconomic contributions of the arts and culture industry to the economies of the UK. Finds that arts and culture in the UK grew by 10% in 2015, five times that of the UK economy as a whole.
Read MoreHard Numbers: A Study on Diversity in Canada’s Galleries→
/A study from Canadian Art on management-level diversity in Canadian art institutions.
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