SWOT-Analysis of Halle 14 in the Cotton Spinning ... - Central Europe

Status of the private sectors – Core branch (Arts and Performing arts)
The role of artistic and cultural businesses has grown in significance within this development and statistically has
expanded disproportionately (for example, the number of businesses has increased by more than 500% since the
year 2000). The strongest growth has been recorded for the performing arts, followed by directly related services
(e.g. stagecraft). The increase in the number of firms active in the visual arts is mainly due to independent painters,
graphic designers and craftspeople.
Tab. 2: Summary of core branches pursuant to NACE 90 and 91 (source: Leipzig Chamber of Industry and
Commerce, own depiction)
thereof
creative, artistic &
entertaining activities
plus museums & galleries
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
82 96 91 152 174 194 222 268 298 369 423
performing arts 20 22 20 63 70 82 102 125 138 175 202
associated services 23 39 33 32 46 53 63 77 92 116 135
visual arts 11 13 14 16 20 21 24 34 33 43 48
exhibition & event
services
28 22 24 41 38 38 33 32 35 35 38
Another indicator of the development of various economic branches in general and the creative industries in particular
is the number of employees subject to social security. For data protection reasons, only limited details on specific
sectors can be provided. Therefore, in order to present the development of the number of employees subject to social
security during the past ten years, merely data at the level of main groups of the various economic sectors are
available. Accordingly, the total sum of the main group is larger than the actual value sought. Moreover, the alteration
of the method of statistical classification of economic sectors makes it difficult to produce a direct comparison of
development over the last ten years. Since 2007, different data backgrounds have arisen in connection with the
changed registration coding with the aim of obtaining more reliable and accurate information on individual sectors (cf.
Tab. 3 and 4).
Tab. 3: Employees subject to social security pursuant to the previous classification of economic sectors [WZ 2003]
(source: German Employment Agency, own depiction)
number of salaried
employees in Leipzig
(NACE 2003)
2000
(30 th jun.)
2001
(30 th jun.)
2002
(30 th jun.)
2003
(30 th jun.)
2004
(30 th jun.)
2005
(30 th jun.)
2006
(30 th jun.)
total 207.164 204.116 196.239 194.235 191.170 188.845 195.672
relevante branches of
Creative Industries
relevante branches
of Core Branches
53.285 54.200 54.646 55.707 55.654 56.029 59.304
6.749 6.786 7.002 7.437 7.530 7.396 7.403
other branches 152.631 149.216 140.903 137.840 134.840 132.178 135.719
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