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EMPLOYMENT

Census of Population and Housing

The 2001 Census of Population and Housing found that there were 2,178 people employed in the recorded media manufacturing and publishing industry. They were employed in a wide variety of occupations in the industry, the majority (87%) of which were non-cultural.

Census employment figures relate only to the main job a person was doing in the week before Census Night. This means that people involved in the industry as part of a second job are excluded. A better indicator of the number of people employed in the industry is data from the ABS Manufacturing Industry Survey which found 3,381 people working in the recorded media manufacturing and publishing industry in June 2001.

13.3 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN RECORDED MEDIA MANUFACTURING AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRY(a), By occupation - August 2001
		Number	%
Cultural occupations
	Printing tradespersons	67	3.1
	Graphic designers	46	2.1
	Sound technicians	45	2.1
	Media producers	17	0.8
	Other cultural occupations	111	5.1
	Total cultural occupations	286	13.1
Other occupations
	Software designers	103	4.7
	Sales and marketing managers	85	3.9
	Applications and analyst programmers	80	3.7
	Handpackers	77	3.5
	Computing support technicians	73	3.4
	Other (includes not stated)	1 474	67.7
	Total other occupations	1 892	86.9
Total all occupations		2 178	100.0
(a) In their main job in the week before Census Night.
ABS, Census of Population and Housing, 2001, data available on request

The Census also identified some 4,802 people employed in the recorded music retailing industry, with the vast majority (97%) working in non-cultural occupations (mainly as Shop assistants and Shop managers).

13.4 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN RECORDED MUSIC RETAILING INDUSTRY(a), By occupation - August 2001
		Number	%
Cultural occupations
	Music teachers (private)	26	0.5
	Sound technicians	24	0.5
	Instrumental musicians	23	0.5
	Graphic designers	14	0.3
	Other cultural occupations	74	1.5
	Total cultural occupations	161	3.4
Other occupations
	Sales assistants, n.e.c.	2 162	45.0
	Shop managers	985	20.5
	Sales assistants (other personal and household goods)	161	3.4
	Sales and marketing managers	147	3.1
	Other (includes not stated)	1 186	24.7
	Total other occupations	4 641	96.6
Total all occupations		4 802	100.0
(a) In their main job in the week before Census Night.
ABS, Census of Population and Housing, 2001, data available on request

There were 332 people who stated that their main job in the week before the Census was as a composer (this category includes song writers). Of these, 170 worked for music and theatre production businesses and 51 worked for themselves.