During the 12 months before interview in 2002, about 84% of Tasmanians aged 18 years and over (290,800 people) attended at least one of the cultural venues or events included in an ABS survey. The rate of people attending at least one venue or event varied little between the three Tasmanian Regions. The highest attendance rates in all three Regions were for people attending cinemas.
Attendance rates for Tasmanians living in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region were the highest of the three Regions for all venues and events included in the survey, apart from dance performances and musicals and operas.
For the Mersey-Lyell Region, although the rate of people attending at least one of the cultural venues or events surveyed was similar to the Tasmanian average (83.2% compared to 84.3% for Tasmania), in 9 of the 12 categories surveyed the attendance rate was the lowest of the three Tasmanian Regions.
ATTENDANCE AT CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, Tasmanian regions - 2002(a)(b)
|
Venue/activity | Greater Hobart-Southern | Northern | Mersey-Lyell | Tasmania |
NUMBER ('000)
|
Cinemas | 104.2 | 56.2 | 45.5 | 205.9 |
Libraries | 77.4 | 37.8 | 32.2 | 147.4 |
Botanic gardens | 81.9 | 21.4 | 17.1 | 120.4 |
Museums | 60.0 | 34.9 | 16.1 | 111.0 |
Zoological parks and aquariums | 52.3 | 29.2 | 20.6 | 102.2 |
Art galleries | 50.8 | 27.5 | 15.9 | 94.1 |
Popular music concerts | 44.2 | 25.3 | 17.5 | 87.1 |
Other performing arts | 34.0 | 19.1 | 10.0 | 63.1 |
Theatre performances | 36.0 | 16.5 | 7.5 | 60.1 |
Musicals and operas | 25.9 | 17.2 | 11.0 | 54.1 |
Dance performances | 16.8 | 12.3 | 4.8 | 33.9 |
Classical music concerts
| 21.0 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 31.2 |
At least one venue or event
| 143.0 | 82.5 | 65.3 | 290.8 |
Total persons aged 18 years and over | 166.6 | 99.9 | 78.5 | 344.9 |
ATTENDANCE RATE (%)
|
Cinemas | 62.6 | 56.3 | 58.0 | 59.7 |
Libraries | 46.4 | 37.9 | 41.0 | 42.7 |
Botanic gardens | 49.2 | 21.4 | 21.9 | 34.9 |
Museums | 36.0 | 34.9 | 20.5 | 32.2 |
Zoological parks and aquariums | 31.4 | 29.2 | 26.3 | 29.6 |
Art galleries | 30.5 | 27.5 | 20.2 | 27.3 |
Popular music concerts | 26.6 | 25.4 | 22.3 | 25.2 |
Other performing arts | 20.4 | 19.1 | 12.7 | 18.3 |
Theatre performances | 21.6 | 16.6 | 9.6 | 17.4 |
Musicals and operas | 15.6 | 17.2 | 14.1 | 15.7 |
Dance performances | 10.1 | 12.3 | 6.1 | 9.8 |
Classical music concerts
| 12.6 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 9.0 |
At least one venue or event | 85.8 | 82.6 | 83.2 | 84.3 |
(a) People aged 18 years and over who attended selected cultural venues and events at least once during the 12 months before interview in 2002.
(b) Map of the Tasmanian Regions specified.
Source: ABS data available on request, General Social Survey. |
These statistics relate to a Tasmania Together benchmark.