Australia Yearbook - 2001

Chapter 12—Culture and recreation 519
12.22 OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
OF ARTS FESTIVALS—1995
Larger arts
festivals
Smaller arts
festivals
$m
$m
Government funding 11.5 1.8
All other income 35.4 5.8
Total income 46.9 7.6
Salaries and fees 17.0 3.0
All other expenditure 28.9 4.6
Total expenditure 45.9 7.6
Source: Australia Council, Festival Survey 1995.
12.23 ATTENDANCES AT
FESTIVALS(a)(b)—November 1995 to September
1996
Attendances
Males Females Persons
’000 ’000 ’000
Main arts festivals 1 101 1 303 2 404
Other festivals
Art/museum exhibition 138 149 287
Popular music 335 297 632
Classical music 32 31 63
Film/video 115 136 252
Theatre *17 50 67
Dance 53 35 88
Other performing arts 89 77 166
Craft *17 24 42
Other 42 50 92
Total 840 849 1 689
Total attendances 1 941 2 152 4 094
Total number of people
attending 1 335 1 518 2 853
% % %
Participation rate(c) 20.8 23.0 21.9
(a) Attendances during the previous 12 months. (b) Includes
all people who attended a festival, whether they went to paid
or free events. (c) For each group the total number attending
expressed as a percentage of the civilian population in that
group.
Source: Attendance at Festivals, Australia, November 1995
to September 1996, Department of Communications and
the Arts.
Employment and
participation in cultural
activities
This section contains a selection of ABS statistics
ranging over the spectrum of cultural industries
and activities. More comprehensive data can be
found in the publications listed in the
Bibliography.
Employment in cultural
occupations
According to the 1996 Census of Population and
Housing, there were 156,739 people working in a
cultural occupation as their main job at the time
of the Census. Females accounted for 50.1% of
these people—this is higher than their
proportion (44.1%) in the employed labour force.
Table 12.24 shows that the most common
cultural occupations were architects, graphic
designers, librarians, library assistants and music
teachers.
Involvement in culture and leisure
activities
Over four quarters from November 1998 to
August 1999 the ABS collected information
through its Population Survey Monitor about the
involvement of persons aged 18 years and over in
selected culture and leisure activities during the
previous 12 months. Results from these four
quarterly surveys have been combined to
produce annual estimates. Involvement in
selected culture and leisure activities was defined
to include both paid and unpaid work, but
excluded involvement solely for the respondent’s
own use or that of their family.
As table 12.25 shows, in a 12 month period in
1998–99, 3.5 million people (25.6% of the
Australian population aged 18 and over) were
involved in selected culture and leisure activities.
Of these persons, 36.6% received some payment.
Many persons were involved in more than one
type of activity. There were almost 6.7 million
involvements, the most common activities being
writing, organising festivals, design, organising
fetes, teaching cultural activities and
photography. Almost half (46.6%) of these
involvements were of a short-term and part-time
nature, being 13 weeks or less duration and less
than ten hours a week.