What ABS cultural participation data tells us about cultural policy

SBS,
27 February 2015, Australia

The purpose of this article is to summarise the key results from the cultural participation survey to demonstrate the usefulness of the data in relation to cultural policy.

Neither base-data starting points nor future participation targets are presented, but participation was to be tracked by the Cultural Ministers ***** Statistics Working Group (so-named even though no Australian government has a Minister of Culture) which supported a “national program of cultural data collection, research and analysis … underpinned by the National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics”, the latter being a unit of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which was disbanded in the 2014 round of cuts.

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