Report on Labour Market Information for Canada’s Cultural Sector

Posted on: Apr 12 2011 | Posted in: Arts, Culture, & Heritage


The Cultural Human Resources Council releases report on Labour Market Information for Canada's Cultural Sector...

The Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) strives to be at the centre of vision and forward thinking in the area of cultural human resources development. CHRC brings together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries in the cultural sector to address the training and career development needs of employers and cultural workers including artists, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector.

The cultural sector comprises literally hundreds of occupations in eight broad sub-sectors: live performing arts, writing and publishing, visuals arts and crafts, film and television, broadcasting, digital media, music and sound recording, and heritage. The sector includes employers and workers in several thousand organizations, big and small, not-for-profit and for-profit.

The Labour Market Information (LMI) report is rich with the most complete set of tables and detailed statistics ever assembled on the cultural labour force. It documents the breadth and strength of the sector with its labour force of 539,000 employers and workers across the country, and its economic impact of $39 billion or 3.1% of GDP.

The report begins by defining the scope of the sector and providing a definition of cultural goods and services and the creative chain. It then describes and analyses cultural occupations (in terms of employment profile, demographic profile and labour market performance); and employers (including profiles by cultural domain). Finally, it provides an economic overview and financial performance by sub-sector. Recommendations in the final chapter summarize the report. It closes with a series of six appendices which back up the findings and conclusions.

Go to http://www.culturalhrc.ca/research/HRStudy2010/LMI-e.asp for the report and further information.

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