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Cultural Business Structure and Labour Market

The purpose of the statistics is to analyze workplaces as well as persons employed within the cultural sector. The statistics is compiled from 2008 and is published annually.

Statistical presentation

The statistics on Cultural Business Structure and Labour Market are compiled annually and provide data on workplaces, entrepreneurs, jobs and persons employed in the cultural sector. Detailed results are disseminated through a number of tables in StatBank Denmark and main results and links to tables can be accessed at the subject page for economic conditions for culture as well as in the annual publication Culture (from 2015 and onwards).

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Statistical processing

The statistics is based on edited register data from the Establishment-related Business Statistics, the Register-based Labour Force Statistics, Educational Attainment, and Business Demography. The number of jobs are calculated for workplaces (establishments) in relevant activity sectors and are linked to personal data on e.g. age and educational status for employees.

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Relevance

The statistics is accessible for everybody and can be used for summaries of the entrepreneurship, educational status and employment within the cultural sector. The statistics may be used for analyses, planning and debates on the topic of cultural employment, etc.

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Accuracy and reliability

The statistics is based on validated data from Statistics Denmark's central registers that form the basis of official statistics, refer to the documentations of statistics for Establishment-related Business Statistics, the Register-based Labour Force Statistics, Educational Attainment, and Business Demography. No actual measurement of the quality and no calculations on measures of accuracy has been performed.

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Timeliness and punctuality

The statistics is published 20 months after the end of the reference period awaiting the compilation of source register data. It is a fairly new statistics that has been published punctually.

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Comparability

The current time series starts in 2008 and is without any data breaks. The statistics can be compared to selected results from the Establishment-related Business Statistics, the Register-based Labour Force Statistics, Educational Attainment, and Business Demography. Eurostat and Unesco regularly publish reports on the same subject matters as this statistics.

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Accessibility and clarity

These statistics are published annually in the StatBank under the subject Culture, education and employment. For further information, go to the subject page on Culture, economy and structure .

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