Research and statistics - Tasmania

The following reports prepared by the National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provide a summary of available data for the cultural sector in Tasmania. Information is obtained from various annual and periodic ABS national reports, many of which are produced with the Cultural Ministers Council Statistics Working Group, as well as the Australia Council and the Commonwealth Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

In some cases, the information has been augmented with Tasmania-specific data not published in the national reports, and with information from other sources where relevant. Material is updated as new reports are published and new data becomes available. It is hoped that the information is a useful starting point for researchers and others interested in this profile of the arts in Tasmania.

There are 15 chapters and one appendix:

  1. Cultural Attendance and Participation
  2. Employment, Work and Volunteers in Culture
  3. Children, Young People and the Arts
  4. Indigenous Participation in the Arts
  5. Overseas-born Persons and the Arts
  6. People with a Disability and the Arts
  7. Persons 60 years and over and the Arts 
  8. Household Expenditure on Culture
  9. Economic Activity
  10. Cultural Funding by Government and Business
  11. Museums and Art Galleries
  12. Libraries
  13. The Performing Arts
  14. Cinema, Film and Video
  15. Data Sources about Culture

APPENDIX 1 Detailed occupation and industry employment tables

Note

In the report, TAS is often compared with the whole of Australia (for example tables may show a column 'Percentage in TAS').

To put this in context: according to the 2006 Census, the population of Tasmania was 476481 while the population of Australia was 19 855 288.

Therefore, 2.4 per cent of Australia's population lived in Tasmania.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in the report:

n.a. not available
n.e.c. not elsewhere classified
n.f.d. not further defined
n.p. not available for publication

ANZSIC Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification

The material in this report has been prepared for Arts Tasmania by the National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

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