4920.0 - Arts and Culture: State and Territory Profiles, 2012

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Contents + New South Wales + Victoria + Queensland + South Australia Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities Cultural Funding by Government Cultural Participation + Employment in Culture Cultural Employment Over Time - 2006 and 2011 Cultural Occupations by Sex and Age Cultural Occupations by Other Demographic Characteristics Cultural Industries by Sex and Age Cultural Industries by Other Demographic Characteristics + Western Australia + Tasmania + Northern Territory + Australian Capital Territory History of Changes	CULTURAL EMPLOYMENT OVER TIME - 2006 AND 2011 CULTURAL EMPLOYMENT BY OCCUPATION In the 2011 Census there were 19,464 persons employed in a cultural occupation in South Australia, an increase of 4% from the 18,777 persons reported in the 2006 Census. Whilst increases were recorded across all three broad occupation groups (i.e. heritage occupations, arts occupations and other cultural occupations), growth in employment within the arts occupations (361 persons or 3%) and other cultural occupations were the main drivers (307 persons or 16%). Within the arts occupation group, the largest increases were reported for architects and urban planners (342 persons or 19%) and design workers (337 persons or 9%). The largest decrease was in printing workers, with 584 (down 24%) fewer persons between 2006 and 2011. Within the other cultural occupations group, the number of interpreters grew from 185 to 341 between 2006 and 2011, an increase of 84%. CULTURAL EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY In the 2011 Census there were 21,147 persons employed in a cultural industry in South Australia, a decrease of 676 (down 3%) from the 21,823 persons reported in the 2006 Census. At the broad level, increases were recorded in the heritage industry group (18%) and other culture industry group (3%); however a decrease of 5% occurred in the larger arts industry group. The industry with the largest increase between the 2006 and 2011 Census’ was architectural services with 310 (19%) more persons. Increases were also recorded in the creative artists, musicians, writers and performers industry (262 persons or 30%) and arts education industry (182 persons or 17%). The printing industry experienced the largest decline between the two Census periods with 554 fewer persons employed in 2011, a fall of 22%. Substantial decreases were also experienced in the video and other electronic media rental industry with 300 fewer persons (down 36%) and the newspaper and book retailing industry, down 236 persons (13%). More Information about the changes for all cultural occupations and industries can be found in Tables 1 and 2 of the data cube for South Australia attached to Employment in Culture, Australia, 2011 (cat. no. 6273.0) on the ABS website. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.