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Work in Culture and Leisure Activities Survey
WORK IN CULTURE AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES SURVEY
Due to the large number of people involved in the cultural sector through second jobs and unpaid work, the Census was unable to fully represent employment within this sector. To account for this, the ABS conducted a survey to collect more information on all the ways in which people could be involved in the sector.
In 2007, the survey of Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities found that there were about 3.5 million people (22% of the population aged 15 years and over) in Australia who had worked in a culture or leisure activity in the 12 months before interview. Of these, some 701,800 stated that their involvement was part of their main job.
It should be noted that this involvement could have been a relatively minor part of the job the person held (e.g. taking photographs for inclusion in their organisation's newsletter). Involvement was defined to exclude those activities undertaken only for the person's own, family's or friends' use - these were classed as hobbies.
5.4 INVOLVEMENT BY PAYMENT STATUS AND STATE OR TERRITORY(a), by sex - 12 months ending April 2007 |
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| | | Some paid involvement(b) | Unpaid involvement only | Total persons involved(c) | Persons with no involvement | Total persons | Participation rate | |
| | | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | % | |
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MALES | | | | | | | |
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| | New South Wales | 166.4 | 325.7 | 497.9 | 2 181.7 | 2 679.7 | 18.6 | |
| | Victoria | 134.1 | 242.5 | 382.4 | 1 630.7 | 2 013.1 | 19.0 | |
| | Queensland | 102.3 | 188.8 | 296.1 | 1 276.7 | 1 572.8 | 18.8 | |
| | South Australia | 36.3 | 88.1 | 127.1 | 483.8 | 610.9 | 20.8 | |
| | Western Australia | 51.6 | 95.3 | 150.3 | 644.6 | 794.9 | 18.9 | |
| | Tasmania | 9.4 | 32.8 | 42.6 | 146.4 | 189.0 | 22.5 | |
| | Northern Territory | *6.3 | 8.0 | 14.3 | 44.2 | 58.5 | 24.4 | |
| | Australian Capital Territory | 12.9 | 19.2 | 32.5 | 92.9 | 125.4 | 25.9 | |
| | Australia | 519.3 | 1 000.4 | 1 543.1 | 6 501.1 | 8 044.2 | 19.2 | |
FEMALES | | | | | | | |
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| | New South Wales | 177.1 | 442.6 | 624.3 | 2 129.3 | 2 753.6 | 22.7 | |
| | Victoria | 144.7 | 344.5 | 494.9 | 1 593.6 | 2 088.5 | 23.7 | |
| | Queensland | 103.0 | 277.5 | 383.9 | 1 210.0 | 1 594.0 | 24.1 | |
| | South Australia | 38.9 | 126.3 | 167.3 | 462.4 | 629.7 | 26.6 | |
| | Western Australia | 48.5 | 154.3 | 203.6 | 600.9 | 804.6 | 25.3 | |
| | Tasmania | 10.7 | 41.4 | 52.3 | 144.4 | 196.7 | 26.6 | |
| | Northern Territory | 6.6 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 38.0 | 55.5 | 31.5 | |
| | Australian Capital Territory | 13.3 | 30.6 | 44.0 | 87.6 | 131.6 | 33.5 | |
| | Australia | 542.8 | 1 428.2 | 1 987.9 | 6 266.4 | 8 254.3 | 24.1 | |
PERSONS | | | | | | | |
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| | New South Wales | 343.5 | 768.3 | 1 122.2 | 4 311.1 | 5 433.3 | 20.7 | |
| | Victoria | 278.8 | 587.1 | 877.3 | 3 224.3 | 4 101.6 | 21.4 | |
| | Queensland | 205.3 | 466.4 | 680.1 | 2 486.7 | 3 166.8 | 21.5 | |
| | South Australia | 75.3 | 214.4 | 294.3 | 946.2 | 1 240.5 | 23.7 | |
| | Western Australia | 100.0 | 249.6 | 353.9 | 1 245.5 | 1 599.4 | 22.1 | |
| | Tasmania | 20.1 | 74.2 | 94.9 | 290.8 | 385.7 | 24.6 | |
| | Northern Territory | 12.9 | 18.9 | 31.8 | 82.2 | 114.0 | 27.9 | |
| | Australian Capital Territory | 26.2 | 49.8 | 76.5 | 180.5 | 257.0 | 29.8 | |
| | Australia | 1 062.1 | 2 428.6 | 3 531.0 | 12 767.4 | 16 298.5 | 21.7 | |
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* estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution |
(a) Involvement for 12 months prior to interview. |
(b) Includes persons who only received goods or services as payment. |
(c) Includes persons who did not state whether involvement was paid. |
Source: ABS, Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities, 2007 (cat. no. 6281.0). |
There were 1.6 million people who worked in culture and leisure activities in the 12 months before interview who stated that the activity was not related to their main job held in the last week.
The most common types of cultural activities which formed part of the person's main job were Design (230,700 people), Writing (184,300 people), Creating artworks with a computer (98,400 people) and Designing web sites (83,300 people).