Cultural statistics

Description

This publication comprises a broad set of comparable data related to culture available in the EU-27, EFTA and candidate countries. Selected tables and graphs describe different aspects of culture: cultural heritage, cultural employment, enterprises in certain cultural sectors, external trade in cultural goods, households' cultural expenditure, cultural practices. Statistics are completed by methodological notes on data sources and classifications used to gather this information. This second edition is more than an update of the first edition published in 2007 as it introduces content from new data sources, mainly in the domain of cultural participation.

Description

The aim of this pocketbook is to set out the main cultural statistics comparable at European level. Selected tables and graphs describe different areas of the cultural field for the 27 EU Member States, the candidate countries and the EFTA countries: cultural heritage, cultural employment, enterprises in certain cultural sectors - publishing, architectural activities and cinema, external trade in cultural goods, households cultural expenditure, cultural participation and time spent on cultural activities. The book, which is the first of its kind, is intentionally modest in scope and does not claim to be exhaustive. A short commentary on the data and methodological notes complete this initial snapshot of cultural statistics, mainly based on the findings of existing harmonised surveys and former work carried out within the European Statistical System.

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Links

• Archived site

Other Editions

• Cultural statisticsElectronic resourceOffice for Official Publications of the European Communities2007-01-01
• Cultural statisticsElectronic resourcePublications Office of the European Union2011-01-01