ATTENDANCE AT ARTS FESTIVALS
PURPOSE
To collect information about attendance at arts festivals.
DESCRIPTION
The Attendance at Arts Festivals collection was conducted over four quarters as part of the Population Survey Monitor (PSM) collection. The attendance questions were included on the PSM questionnaires for November 1995 and February, May and September 1996. Interviewers conducted a total of about 11,850 interviews Australia-wide during the four instalments of the collection. The questions referred to the 12-month period immediately preceding interview. The PSM covered all usual residents aged 18 years and over in private dwellings in both urban and rural areas of all States and Territories of Australia. However, persons living in remote and sparsely settled areas were excluded from the collection. All persons living in non-private dwellings were also excluded.
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Australia
FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION
Irregular
DATA ITEMS
Persons attending
The number of persons who attended at least one arts festival during the last 12 months.
Participation rate
The number of persons attending expressed as a percentage of the civilian population aged 18 years and over.
Attendances
The number of arts festivals a person attended during the last 12 months.
Admission status
Records, for each festival, whether admission to the events attended by a person was free, required payment or was a mixture of both.
Type of festival
Records the categories of arts festivals attended. The categories are:
Multi-arts festival - main
Multi-arts festival - other
Popular music
Classical music
Film or video
Theatre
Dance
Other performing arts
Craft
Other
Main festivals
Records attendance details for each of 28 major arts festivals. These festivals include:
Adelaide Festival of Arts
Canberra Festival
Festival of Darwin
Festival of Perth
Hobart Summer Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Moomba Festival
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Tamworth Country Music Festival
Warana Festival (Brisbane)
Type of events
Records the types of events attended at arts festivals. The event categories are:
Art/museum exhibition
Popular music
Classical music
Theatre
Dance
Opera and music theatre
Other performing arts
Film or video
Craft
Street parade
Other
Festival location status
Indicates whether an arts festival was, from the perspective of the person attending, local or interstate.
Reason for travel status
Indicates, for a person attending an interstate festival, whether attending the festival was the main reason for travelling to that State or Territory.
Interstate traveller expenditure
The expenditure by an interstate traveller during the entire interstate visit during which they attended an arts festival.
Duration of stay
The number of days spent interstate by a person attending an interstate arts festival. Numbers of days can be grouped into ranges such as:
1-3
4-7
8 and more
Geographic area
Data are available for Australia, while some data are also available for States and Territories. The State and Territory data are for State or Territory of usual residence of persons attending festivals, and for State or Territory of destination of persons attending festivals interstate.
Demographic characteristics
Demographic characteristics for which information is available include:
Age
Sex
Marital status
Country of birth
Household type (person living alone, married couple living alone, etc.)
Socioeconomic characteristics
Socioeconomic characteristics for which information is available include:
Labour force status (employed, unemployed or not in the labour force)
Main activity for those not employed
Educational attainment
Occupation (1-digit ASCO)
Industry (ANZSIC Division)
Personal income
Other topics of interest
In some quarters in which data about attendance at festivals were collected, data were also collected about the following topics:
Children’s participation in sport and physical activities (November 1995 to September 1996)
Household use of information technology (February 1996 to September 1996)
Individual donations (September 1996 to November 1996)
Participation in gambling (November 1995 to September 1996)
Physical activity of people aged 60 years and over (November 1995)
Spectator sports (November 1995 to September 1996)
Support for the arts (November 1995)
HISTORICAL DATA
The survey has only been conducted once.
DISSEMINATION
Publications
Australian Bureau of Statistics 1997, Population Survey Monitor, Australia, February 1997, Cat. no. 4103.0, ABS, Canberra. Price $16.00.
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 1997, Cultural Trends in Australia No 6: Attendance at Festivals, Australia, November 1995 to September 1996, DCITA, Canberra. Free of charge.
CONTACT
In the first instance, refer to To obtain data or further information in the Introduction to this directory.
Manager
National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
GPO Box 2272
ADELAIDE SA 5001
Telephone: Adelaide 08 8237 7326
Facsimile: Adelaide 08 8237 7366
Email: nccrs@abs.gov.au
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