4920.0 - Arts and Culture: State and Territory Profiles, 2012  
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CULTURAL INDUSTRIES BY SEX AND AGE

OVERVIEW

Of those employed in the Australian Capital Territory in the week prior to the 2011 Census, 7,125 (4%) persons reported their main occupation in a cultural industry. Of those employed in a cultural industry, 3,474 (49%) were employed in a non-cultural occupation.

Of all persons employed in cultural industries in Australia, 2% resided in the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Capital Territory had the lowest proportion of persons employed in nature reserves and conservation parks operation, employing 1% of all persons in this industry.

The cultural industries that employed the most persons were museum operation (962), and libraries and archives (919). Interestingly, neither of these industries was in the top ten employing cultural industries nationally.

EMPLOYMENT BY SEX

More females (3,659) than males (3,470) were employed in cultural industries in the Australian Capital Territory, whereas more males than females were employed in cultural industries nationally.

Cultural industries employing high proportions of males were motion picture and video production (81%), printing (75%), and nature reserves and conservation parks operation (71%).

Cultural industries employing high proportions of females were arts education (71%), newspaper and book retailing (65%), and libraries and archives (64%).



PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a)(b), By sex, ACT, 2011
Graph: PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a)(b), By sex, ACT, 2011

EMPLOYMENT BY AGE

Persons aged 15 to 24 years accounted for 19% of all persons employed in cultural industries in the Australian Capital Territory. Cultural industries with the largest number of persons aged 15 to 24 years were newspaper and book retailing (186) and motion picture exhibition (161). Both of these cultural industries also employed the largest number of persons aged 15 to 24 years nationally.



PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a), By age, ACT, 2011
Graph: PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a), By age, ACT, 2011

The cultural industries with the largest proportions of persons aged 15 to 24 years were motion picture exhibition (88%), and video and other electronic media rental and hiring (85%), which was identical to the cultural industries with the largest proportions of persons aged 15 to 24 years nationally. Only 7% of persons employed in funeral, crematorium and cemetery services were aged 15 to 24 years. Nationally, funeral, crematorium and cemetery services also had a low proportion of persons aged 15 to 24 years.

The cultural industries with the largest number of persons aged 55 years and over were libraries and archives (196), museum operation (188) and religious services (173). In comparison, religious services had the largest number of employed persons aged 55 years and over nationally.



PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a), By age, ACT, 2011
Graph: PERSONS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED CULTURAL INDUSTRIES(a), By age, ACT, 2011

Of those cultural industries with more than 50 workers, the cultural industry with the largest proportion of persons aged 55 years and over was religious services (35%). Video and other electronic media rental and hiring and motion picture exhibition had the smallest proportion of persons aged 55 years and over (both 3%). Motion picture exhibition also had the smallest proportion of persons aged 55 years and over nationally.