Review on Culture and Leisure Statistics

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ESA/STAT/AC.161/Cl.1

• Review on Culture and Leisure Statistics
• Liu Wei, Xin Jia
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  National Bureau of Statistics of China
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I. Comparison between Norway and Israel on
Culture and Leisure Statistics

• A. Concept and definition of culture

• Norway
• Two definitions of culture
• The sector concept, where culture is understood
  as the production and distribution of certain
  products, particularly those made by professional
  artists, for consumption as a leisure time
  activity.
• The holistic concept, where culture is
  understood as a populations ways of thinking,
  doing, and being, the particular set of rule,
  beliefs, priorities and expectations that mould
  our world into a meaningful whole .

Israel Summarizing the 2009 framework of UNSECO
(draft), there is no consensus on a single
agree-on definition of culture. However,
identifying which sectors should be fully
included and which should only be partially
included is essential to assessing and measuring
the cultural sector.
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I. Comparison between Norway and Israel on
Culture and Leisure Statistics (continued)

• B. Classification of culture
• Norway
• Two main subdivisions of culture
• Culture Offerings, including radio and
  television, film and video, news agencies,
  newspapers, periodicals, libraries, museums and
  archives and also public spending on culture
• Cultural Activities, including membership in
  organizations and religious communities, media
  use, library visits, sports and outdoor
  recreation.
• Israel
• The classification of culture consists of
  cultural heritage, literature and other printed
  matter, the performing arts, plastic and visual
  arts, cultural goods and services, cultural
  industries, intangible heritage and traditional
  knowledge etc.

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I. Comparison between Norway and Israel on
Culture and Leisure Statistics (continued)

• C. Data sources of culture statistics
• Norway
• Survey is an important data source in cultural
  activities statistics in Norway, such as time
  use study, the media barometer etc.
• Public spending on culture is from registers
  based in information supplied by producers as
  well as public budget and figures.
• Israel
• Direct data collection from cultural
  organizations and cultural business
• Household Expenditure Survey
• Business Survey
• Survey of all non-profit organizations
• Administrative sources, etc.

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II. Culture and Leisure Statistics in China

• A. Scope of culture and leisure statistics
• Performances, libraries, museums, newspaper,
  periodicals, books, television, film and
  radio, audio/video products etc.
• B. The data sources of culture and leisure
  statistics
• Administrative records
• Household surveys
• Economic census
• Time-use survey
• C. The research and achievement of the statistics
  on Culture and Related Industry ( CRI )
• Identifying the definition of CRI in China.
• Clarifying CRIs components
• Identifying value added accounts of CRI in China.

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III. General Comment and Opinion on Culture and
Leisure Statistics Practice, Problem and
Perspective

• A. Definition of Culture and its Statistical
  Scope
• There is no consensus on a single agreed
  definition of culture among researchers, experts
  and policy makers from all countries of the
  world. The 2009 UNESCO Framework on Cultural
  Statistics (Draft)
• Statistical authorities select domains or sectors
  of activities which they understand as central to
  their culture. Suggested by the Framework
  (Draft) above
• This suggestion provide a way to
• assist countries to carry out culture statistics
  to meet their own needs
• make international comparison on culture and
  leisure statistics.

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III. General Comment and Opinion on Culture and
Leisure Statistics Practice, Problem and
Perspective (continued)

• B. Data Source of Culture and Leisure Statistics
• Statistical data can be collected from
• administrative sources,
• household surveys,
• special surveys related to the culture and
  leisure, and
• general surveys with culture and leisure
  components, etc.
• Existing data are the most important sources of
  culture and leisure statistics.
• It is difficult to get some data because of the
  widespread scope of culture. Collection of
  cultural statistics generally lags behind the
  development of frameworks (Paper of Israel) .
• C. Overlaps of Culture Statistics and Other
  Statistics
• Should the overlaps be thought reasonable under
  certain circumstance?

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III. General Comment and Opinion on Culture and
Leisure Statistics Practice, Problem and
Perspective (continued)

• D. Efforts of International and Regional
  Organizations
• International and regional organizations make
  great efforts in the development of cultural
  statistics
• Proposing principles and core domains on culture
  statistics
• Promoting the improvement of culture statistics
  in countries and the comparison among countries
• From the perspective of improving
  comparability, national statistical offices
  should be encouraged to apply principles and
  methods, suggested by international and regional
  organizations, to national practice.

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• Thank you!