WORK IN SELECTED CULTURE AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
PURPOSE
To collect information about people's work in culture and leisure activities. This work may be undertaken as part of their main job, as another job, or in a voluntary capacity. The information was collected alongside information about Involvement in organised sport and physical activity.
DESCRIPTION
The Work In Selected Culture And Leisure Activities collection was conducted in April 2004 as part of the Monthly Population Survey (MPS) (see Labour force for more detail about methodology). The MPS covers all usual residents aged 15 years and over in both urban and rural areas of all States and Territories of Australia. However, persons living in remote and sparsely settled areas are excluded from the part of the survey relating to Work In Selected Culture And Leisure Activities. This has only a minor impact on aggregate estimates produced for individual States and Territories, with the exception of the Northern Territory, where such persons account for approximately 20% of the population. Although persons staying in non-private dwellings are included in the MPS, the questions relating to Work In Selected Culture And Leisure Activities were only asked of people residing in private dwellings. There were approximately 30,000 occupied private dwellings included in the sample for the MPS. The residents of seven-eighths of these were asked the questions relating to Work In Selected Culture And Leisure Activities. Data about one randomly selected person, aged 15 years and over, were collected from any responsible adult in the household.
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Australia
FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION
Every three or four years.
DATA ITEMS
As this survey was conducted as part of the Monthly Population Survey all of the data items shown in the Labour force entry in this directory, with the exception of occupation and industry of employment, are available for analysis alongside the data items shown below.
Also, see Involvement in organised sport and physical activity for data items collected in the remainder of the survey.
Number of persons
The number of persons in Australia aged 15 years or more.
Involvement
Indicates whether or not a person was involved in at least one of the specified culture and leisure activities, in a work capacity, during the 12 months before interview.
Type of activity
Records the types of culture and leisure activities in which a person was involved. The types of activity are:
Heritage organisations
Public art galleries
Museums
National parks and reserves
Zoos and aquaria
Botanic gardens
Libraries and archives
Writing
Publishing
Music as a live performer
Music but not as a live performer
Performing arts as a performer
Performing arts but not as a performer
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Photography
Print-making
Computer art
Other visual art activities
Pottery and ceramics
Textiles
Jewellery
Furniture-making and wood crafts
Glass crafts
Other craft activities
Design
Radio
Television
Film production
Cinema and video distribution
Interactive content creation
Teaching cultural activities
Fete organising
Festival organising
Art and craft show organising
Government arts organisations and agencies
Type of writing
The activity of Writing is split into sub-activities. These sub-activities are:
Educational books
Other books
Newspapers or magazines
Journals
Film, television or plays
Newsletters
Other
Type of music performance
The activity of Music as a live performer is split into three sets of sub-activities. The first set of sub-activities is:
Rock or pop
Jazz
Folk or country
Classical
Other music
The second set of sub-activities is:
Singer only
Instrumentalist only
Singer and instrumentalist
The third set of sub-activities is:
Performs in licensed premises only
Performs in unlicensed premises only
Performs in both licensed and unlicensed premises
Type of performing arts
The activity of Performing arts as a performer is split into sub-activities. These sub-activities are:
Theatre
Opera
Dance
Other
Type of design
The activity of Design is split into sub-activities. These sub-activities are:
Architecture
Graphic
Fashion
Advertising
Other
Type of teaching
The activity of Teaching cultural activities is split into sub-activities. These sub-activities are:
Radio, television, film or video
Music or performing arts
Art or craft
Writing or publishing
Design
Payment status
Shows whether a person was paid for their work in a culture or leisure activity. Note that a person is not limited to one status for each activity. They could have multiple involvements in the same activity and hence multiple payment statuses.
The statuses are:
Paid with money
Paid with goods or services (i.e. in kind)
Unpaid
Income
The range of income received from involvement in each culture or leisure activity during the 12 months before interview.
The ranges are:
Less than $5,000
$5,000 to $19,999
$20,000 to $39,999
$40,000 or more
Hours of involvement
The range of usual weekly hours of involvement for those weeks when there was some involvement. The ranges are:
Less than 3 hours
3 to less than 10 hours
10 to less than 20 hours
20 to less than 35 hours
35 hours or more
Number of weeks of involvement
The number of weeks during the year before interview in which a person had any work involvement in culture or leisure activities, regardless of duration.
Whether activity was part of a paid job held last week
Shows whether the paid culture or leisure activity undertaken was part of any job held last week. The categories are:
Part of the one job the person held last week
Not part of the one job the person held last week
Part of the main job of multiple jobs the person held last week
Not part of the main job but part of another job the person held last week
Not part of any of the multiple jobs the person held last week
Area of training
Records whether a person had undertaken training to obtain a certificate or other qualification in one of the arts or culture fields. The fields are:
Librarianship
Heritage
Crafts
Drama/dance
Film/radio/television
Fine arts
Architecture
Design
Music
Literature
Other
Hobby activity
Records whether a person was involved in selected culture and leisure activities in a hobby capacity only. The activities are:
Art and craft
Writing
Music
HISTORICAL DATA
Previous collections were conducted in 1993, 1997 and 2001 as part of the MPS. There was also a one-off Work In Selected Culture And Leisure Activities collection which was conducted as part of the Population Survey Monitor collection during 1998-99. Because of the different collection methodology used, comparisons of its data with those from the four MPS collections are not recommended.
DISSEMINATION
Publications
Australia Council 2005, Artswork 2: A Report on Australians Working in the Arts, Australia Council, Sydney. Free of charge.
Australia Council 1997, Artswork: A Report on Australians Working in the Arts, Australia Council, Sydney. Free of charge.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2004, Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities, Australia, April 2004, Cat no. 6281.0, ABS, Canberra. Price $23.00. Also available for March 1993, March 1997, 1998-99 and April 2001.
Cultural Ministers Council Statistical Working Group, Australia's Culture No 15: Work in Selected Culture and Leisure Activities, April 2004, CMC SWG, Canberra. Available free of charge under 'Statistical information' on the CMC SWG web site at <http://www.dcita.gov.au/swg>. Also available for April 2001 as Australia's Culture No 12.
CONTACT
In the first instance, refer to To obtain data or further information in the Introduction to this directory.
Manager
National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
GPO Box 2272
ADELAIDE SA 5001
Telephone: Adelaide 08 8237 7326
Facsimile: Adelaide 08 8237 7366
Email: nccrs@abs.gov.au
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