NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
OVERVIEW
Television Services is a survey which directly collects financial, employment and activity information about licensed private sector television broadcasters (comprising commercial free-to-air and subscription broadcasters) which are a subset of Television services industry (ANZSIC class 9122). The survey also collects production activity data from the two public broadcasters. All other Television services units including community broadcasters classified to ANZSIC 9122 were excluded from the survey.
The methodology for the 2002/03 cycle has changed since 1999-00 so caution should be used in making any historical comparisons. In 1999/00 the ABS utilised Australian Broadcasting Asssociation aggregated administrative data for the purposes of supplementing annual published financial data for commercial free-to-air broadcasters in Australia. Activity data was still directly collected by ABS for free-to-air businesses. Previous survey results for 1996/97 were also revised to reflect ABA aggregates. The 2002-03 collection directly collected all data from individual units, rather than use aggregated data.
PURPOSE
The key purpose of the Television Services survey is to provide measures on the performance and structure of licensed private sector television broadcasters (comprising commercial free-to-air and subscription broadcasters) which are a subset of Television services industry (ANZSIC class 9111). This includes identifying the nature and structure of the industry/activity in terms of employment, income, costs, production activity and the contribution to the Australian economy.
The survey also collects production activity data from the two public broadcasters and all private sector broadcasting businesses.
SCOPE
The scope of the this collection included only a subset of the ANZSIC classe 9122 Television Services.
The scope included businesses in Australia that generated income predominantly from commercial-free-to- air, public and subscription television broadcasting. Services provided by these businesses included the production of television programs, whether live or on tape or other recording medium, for own use. Community broadcasters were also excluded.
DATA DETAIL
Conceptual framework
n/a
Main outputs
Results from the 2002-03 survey will be published in Television, Film and Video Production, Australia (cat. no. 8679.0).
Data includes:
- summary of operations split by commercial by type of broadcaster (free-to-air and subscription)
- sources of income
- items of expenditure
- characteristics of employment
- state/territories
- summary of television production activity
- television production activity split by production type
- average production cost per commercial broadcast hour
Earlier results were released in the following publications:
- 1999-00 Television Services, Australia (cat. no. 8559.0)
- 1996-97 Radio and Television Services, Australia (cat. no. 8680.0)
- 1993-94 Radio and Television Services, Australia (cat. no. 8680.0)
Classifications
The Australian and New Zealand Industrial Classification is partly used in defining units in scope of the collection. A susbset of ANZSIC class 9122 - Television Services is used and included only
licensed private sector television broadcasters (comprising commercial free-to-air and subscription broadcasters), and public broadcasters.
The Australian Standard Classifications Occupational (ASCO) had been used to classify occupation data.
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Product Classification (ANZSPC) has been used to provide a basis for recompiling basic product statistics from their original classifications into a standard classification for analytical use. All product components have been mapped in ANZSPC.
Other concepts (summary)
Not applicable.
GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
Western Australia
Tasmania
Northern Territory
ACT
Comments and/or Other Regions
Not applicable
COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Adhoc
Frequency comments
Collection is irregular and will be run approximately 3 yearly (subject to review)
COLLECTION HISTORY
This is the fourth collection of the Televison Services survey.
Previous collections of statistics for the Television Services have been undertaken in 1999-2000, 1996-97 and 1993-1994. For further information for the 1999/00 cycle please refer to collection Id 465 Cultural Industries Survey and collection Id 245 Radio and Television Services for earlier cycles.
DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes
Data availability comments
Data will be made available in 2002-03 Television, Film and Video Production, Australia (cat. no. 8679.0).
DATE OF LAST UPDATE FOR THIS DOCUMENT
10/10/2006 05:52 PM
