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EMPLOYMENT

Census of Population and Housing

The 2006 Census of Population and Housing found that there were 234 people employed in the Music publishing industry, 2,286 people employed in the Reproduction of recorded media industry, and 814 people employed in the sound recording industry. The majority of people employed the industry worked in cultural occupations (61%) compared to only 15% of those employed in Music publishing and 13% of those employed in Reproduction of recorded media.

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. Another indicator of the number of people employed in the industry is the ABS Manufacturing Industry Survey which found 3,800 people working in the recorded media manufacturing and publishing industry in June 2001.

13.3 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN MUSIC PUBLISHING, REPRODUCTION AND SOUND RECORDING INDUSTRIES(a)(b), By selected occupations - August 2006
			Number	%
	Music publishing
		Total cultural occupations	36	15.4
		Other occupations	198	84.6
		Total occupations	234	100.0
	Reproduction of recorded media
		Printers nfd	40	1.7
		Screen printer	29	1.3
		Graphic designer	29	1.3
		Sound technician	22	1.0
		Technical writer	20	0.9
		Video producer	16	0.7
		Other cultural occupations	142	6.2
		Total cultural occupations	298	13.0
		Other occupations	1 988	87.0
		Total occupations	2 286	100.0
	Music and other sound recording activities
		Sound technician	304	37.3
		Media producer	45	5.5
		Musician	29	3.6
		Composer	11	1.4
		Film, television, radio and stage directors, nec	13	1.6
		Graphic designer	11	1.4
		Other cultural occupations	82	10.1
		Total cultural occupations	495	60.8
		Other occupations	319	39.2
		Total occupations	814	100.0
(a) Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.
(b) In their main job in the week before Census Night.
Source: ABS, 2006 Census of Population and Housing, data available on request.