WORK IN CULTURE AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES SURVEY
As the Census did not fully represent employment in the cultural sector because of the large numbers involved through a second job or through unpaid work, the ABS conducted a survey to collect more information on all the ways in which people could be involved.
In 2004, the latest 'Work in Culture Survey' found that there were about 2.9 million people (18% of the population aged 15 years and over) in Australia who had worked in a culture or leisure activity in the 12 months before interview. Of these, some 838,500 stated that their involvement was part of a job they held in the week before interview.
It should be noted that this involvement could have been a relatively minor part of the job the person held (e.g. taking photographs for inclusion in their organisation's newsletter). Involvement was defined to exclude those activities undertaken only for the person's own or family use - these were classed as hobbies.
5.4 PERSONS WORKING IN CULTURE AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES(a) - 12 months ending April 2004 |
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| Males | Females | Persons | |
NUMBER ('000) | |
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| Involvement part of main job held last week | 406.6 | 417.8 | 824.4 | |
| Involvement part of second job held last week | 5.2 | 8.8 | 14.1 | |
| Involvement part of a job held last week | 411.9 | 426.6 | 838.5 | |
| Involvement not part of any job held last week | 851.2 | 1 197.8 | 2 049.0 | |
| Total involved | 1 263.0 | 1 624.4 | 2 887.5 | |
PARTICIPATION RATE (%) | |
| |
| Involvement part of main job held last week | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.3 | |
| Involvement part of second job held last week | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Involvement part of a job held last week | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.4 | |
| Involvement not part of any job held last week | 11.0 | 15.0 | 13.1 | |
| Total involved | 16.4 | 20.4 | 18.4 | |
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| (a) Excludes people whose only involvement was in a hobby capacity. |
| ABS, Survey of Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities, April 2004, data available on request. |
There were 2.0 million people who worked in culture and leisure activities in the 12 months before interview who stated that the activity was not related to a job held in the last week. Most of these activities were undertaken on a voluntary basis.
The most common types of cultural activities which formed part of the person's job were Writing (224,000 people), Design (215,700 people), Interactive content creation, such as designing web sites and computer games (110,600 people) and Computer art (96,200 people).
5.5 PERSONS INVOLVED(a), By type of activity and whether part of job - 12 months ending April 2004 |
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| Involvement part of job(s) held last week | Involvement not part of job(s) held last week | Total | |
| Activity | '000 | '000 | '000 | |
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| Heritage organisations | *9.4 | 52.7 | 62.2 | |
| Public art galleries | *10.8 | 32.7 | 43.5 | |
| Museums | *8.8 | 35.1 | 43.8 | |
| National parks and reserves | 21.8 | 91.2 | 113.0 | |
| Zoos and aquariums | *3.3 | 12.5 | 15.9 | |
| Botanic gardens | *8.9 | 14.2 | 23.0 | |
| Libraries and archives | 34.9 | 53.0 | 87.8 | |
| Writing | 224.0 | 332.4 | 556.5 | |
| Publishing | 86.8 | 75.3 | 162.2 | |
| Music - live performer | 20.1 | 210.7 | 230.8 | |
| Music - no involvement as live performer | 24.1 | 44.9 | 69.1 | |
| Performer arts - performer | 15.4 | 257.3 | 272.7 | |
| Performing arts - no involvement as performer | 38.0 | 113.2 | 151.2 | |
| Drawing | 62.2 | 226.5 | 288.7 | |
| Painting | 39.8 | 222.5 | 262.4 | |
| Sculpture | *10.4 | 51.2 | 61.5 | |
| Photography | 73.1 | 227.1 | 300.1 | |
| Print-making | 19.9 | 48.5 | 68.4 | |
| Computer art | 96.2 | 190.1 | 286.3 | |
| Other visual art activities | 10.0 | 37.8 | 47.8 | |
| Pottery and ceramics | *12.1 | 45.5 | 57.6 | |
| Textiles | 14.0 | 130.3 | 144.3 | |
| Jewellery | *6.2 | 57.4 | 63.5 | |
| Furniture-making and wood crafts | 29.4 | 175.2 | 204.5 | |
| Glass crafts | **0.9 | 26.0 | 27.0 | |
| Other craft activities | *13.0 | 109.2 | 122.1 | |
| Design | 215.7 | 154.5 | 370.2 | |
| Radio | 33.7 | 59.3 | 93.0 | |
| Television | 41.2 | 35.0 | 76.2 | |
| Film production | 21.2 | 53.7 | 74.9 | |
| Cinema and video distribution | *10.1 | 18.0 | 28.1 | |
| Interactive content creation | 110.6 | 104.1 | 214.7 | |
| Fete organising | 50.4 | 286.1 | 336.5 | |
| Teaching | 61.1 | 122.1 | 183.2 | |
| Festival organising | 53.9 | 198.3 | 252.2 | |
| Art and craft show organising | 31.9 | 121.3 | 153.2 | |
| Government arts organisations and agencies | 10.7 | 11.3 | 22.0 | |
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| * estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution |
| ** estimate has a relative standard error greater than 50% and is considered too unreliable for general use |
| (a) Excludes people whose only involvement was in a hobby capacity. |
| ABS, Survey of Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities, April 2004, data available on request. |
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