Pay/earnings
Productivity
Profitability
Qualification levels
Recruitment Problems, including Skills Shortages
Skills gaps
Spend on gambling by age, gender, ethnic group
Spending at Arts, Historic Environments, Museums & Galleries, Sport & Recreation and Creative Industries
Status of employment (self employed, full/part time). Double jobbing
Total number employed
Training; numbers in
Turnover (revenue), Output and Gross Value Added
Unemployed
User and Household Spending on tourism
Vacancies & redundancies
Value of voluntary work
Volunteers; number of
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Pay/earnings
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The New Earnings Survey (NES) is an annual survey of employers that collects data on the pay and hours of around 160,000 individual employees www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Source.asp?vlnk=428&More=Y
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) www.statistics.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Incomes Data Services provides ad hoc surveys of pay by sectors in the economy www.incomesdata.co.uk/index.html
NTOs and trade associations also undertake bespoke surveys to identify working conditions and pay levels.
How do I do this?
National level estimates available through careful analysis of published reports and data collected from trade associations and government based statistics such as the NES. Note, regional based pay/earnings for the DCMS sectors unavailable in all but the broadest industry and occupational groups. Other classifications that may be of use are:
Standard Industrial Classifications
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Productivity
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
National Accounts www.statistics.gov.uk
Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) www.statistics.gov.uk/abi
Labour Force Survey (LFS) www.statistics.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
None
How do I do this?
Productivity can be defined in terms of output/GVA per worker. A part-time worker counts as 0.4 of a full-time worker.
Classifications that may be of use are:
Standard Industrial Classifications
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Profitability
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
This information has recently been made available in ABI2. You will need to identify the Standard Industrial Classifications before using ABI data www.statistics.gov.uk/abi
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Data from Companies House has information on limited companies.
How do I do this?
Problems aligning with the Cultural Sector on a consistent basis and at a regional level. Alternative approach is to undertake analysis of company accounts/reports and cross checking with data from trade associations.
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Qualification levels
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
Higher and Further Education Funding Councils
The Labour Force Survey www.statistics.gov.uk.
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) www.lsc.gov.uk
National Training Organisations – for a full list of NTOs see www.ssda.org.uk/
How do I do this?
Information in the Labour Force Survey (and the FEFC and HEFC), will only gauge formal qualifications and under-represent sector accreditations that are gained through work-based learning.
Using the LFS household survey, however, will allow appropriate SIC/SOC mapping to align estimates to Cultural Sector, and on a regional basis. Other classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Recruitment Problems, including Skills Shortages
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) www.dfes.gov.uk
Employers Skills Survey (ESS). See www.skillsbase.dfes.gov.uk
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) – for a list of offices
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Recruitment difficulties are quantified through employer surveys
National Training Organisations – for a full list of NTOs see www.ssda.org.uk
Economic forecasting specialists
How do I do this?
There are problems with aligning skills data to the Cultural Sector on a consistent basis and at a regional level. Broad conclusions may be drawn from analysis of data sources noted above.
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Skills gaps
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) www.dfes.gov.uk
Employers Skills Survey (ESS) www.skillsbase.dfes.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Skills Gaps are quantified through employer surveys.
National Training Organisations (NTOs) – for a full list of NTOs see www.ssda.org.uk
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) – for a list
Economic forecasting companies
How do I do this?
There are problems with aligning skills data with the Cultural Sector on a consistent basis and at a regional level. Broad conclusions may be drawn from analysis of data sources noted above.
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Spend on gambling by age, gender, ethnic group
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Family Expenditure Survey (FES) www.statistics.gov.uk
Consumer Trends www.statistics.gov.uk
Social Trends (2000) www.statistics.gov.uk
Customs and excise receipts www.hmce.gov.uk
National Lottery Commission www.natlotcomm.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
None
How do I do this?
Estimates of weekly expenditure are available by region, ethnic group and age from the FES. The FES has a small sample. These can be grossed up to official national level estimates from National Accounts www.statistics.gov.uk
The recipients of national lottery spend over the past seven years are available at www.culture.gov.uk/national_lottery and Sport England www.sportengland.org/.
Classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and and soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Spending at Arts, Historic Environments, Museums & Galleries, Sport & Recreation and Creative Industries
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
UK Day Visits Survey www.staruk.org.uk/default.asp?ID=115&parentid=504Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions www.staruk.org.uk//default.asp?ID=113&parentid=504
The Family Expenditure Survey (FES) www.statistics.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Regular and ad-hoc surveys by trade associations, local tourist boards and local councils. Company accounts.
How do I do this?
As many cultural activities can also be classed as tourist activities, the UK Research Liaison Group www.staruk.org.uk for tourism is a useful starting point for accessing the wide-ranging cultural related sectors. This can be supplemented by data collected from non-governmental surveys, on a case by case basis. Data generally has good sub-national coverage. Estimates based on official data and survey information produced by economic forecasting organisations. Other classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Status of employment (self employed, full/part time). Double jobbing
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) at www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Labour Force Survey (LFS) data available from www.statistics.gov.uk
Census of Population www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/op.asp
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
National Training Organisations (NTOs)
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs)
Local economic assessments e.g. Regional Cultural Consortia
How do I do this?
The same technique as calculating total employment:
Employee estimate from the ABI can be added to self-employment estimates from the LFS to build up a picture of employment in the Cultural Sector, using the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). Alternatively, both employee estimates and self-employment estimates can be obtained from the LFS. Note, this estimate will not include unpaid volunteers, or those on government training schemes.
Extra criteria needs to be imposed on the data (e.g. splitting employees into full/part-time workers). Other classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Training; numbers in
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Labour Force Survey www.statistics.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Local learning providers
Learning and Skills Council www.lsc.gov.uk,
National Training Organisations – for a full list of NTOs see www.ssda.org.uk
Sector Skills Councils www.ssda.org.uk
How do I do this?
The LFS can be used to find out about education and training received by industry and occupation. The LFS will allow appropriate SIC/SOC mapping to align estimates to Cultural Sector, and on a regional basis. Supplement using non-government data from local learning providers etc.
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Total number employed
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) is available on-line at www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Labour Force Survey (LFS) information can be obtained from www.statistics.gov.uk.
Census of Population. www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/op.asp
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs)
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
National Training Organisations (NTOs)
Local economic assessments e.g. Regional Cultural Consortia (RCCs)
How do I do this?
Employee estimate from the ABI can be added to self-employment estimates from the LFS to build up a picture of employment in the Cultural Sector, using the Standard Industrial Classification SIC (92). Other classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
Alternatively, both employee estimates and self-employment estimates can be obtained from the LFS. Note, this estimate will not include unpaid volunteers, or those on government training schemes.
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Turnover (revenue), Output and Gross Value Added
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
ABI(2) www.statistics.gov.uk/abi
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Estimates based on official estimates of employment and productivity assumptions are produced by a range of economic forecasting companies.
How do I do this?
Contact the ABI section of National Statistics at www.statistics.gov.uk/abi. Estimates are based on Standard Industrial Classifications, and available at the regional level, albeit at aggregations of the DCMS sectors.
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Unemployed
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) from http://www.statistics.gov.uk
Claimant count unemployment available from National statistics, direct from the Employment Service or www.Nomisweb.co.uk
Household surveys carried out by Regional Development Agencies provide estimates of unemployed by broad occupation and industry aggregations.
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Household surveys carried out by National Training Organisations will estimate the unemployed, albeit and broad occupation and industry aggregations.
How do I do this?
National and regional level estimates are available through analysis of the LFS (based on the International Labour Organisation definition of unemployed) and the Claimant count unemployment. Note, aligning the estimates with the cultural sectors may require aggregating some of the SOC codes. Other classifications that may be of use are:
Standard Industrial Classifications
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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User and Household Spending on tourism
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
UK Day Visits Survey
http://www.staruk.org.uk//default.asp?ID=727&parentid=512
Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions www.staruk.org.uk//default.asp?ID=113&parentid=504
The Family Expenditure Survey (FES) www.statistics.gov.uk
Data Sources/Sets:
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Ad-hoc surveys by local tourist boards and local councils.
How do I do this?
The FES is available on-line at www.statistics.gov.uk. For statistics for research and tourism, a good starting point is the official website of the UK Research Liaison Group www.staruk.org.uk. This groups, which is made up of representatives of the national tourist boards for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Britain and the DCMS, has useful links to relevant datasets and research. Generally good sub-national coverage. Estimates based on official data and survey information is produced by a small number of economic forecasting companies.
Classifications that may be of use are:
Geographical classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/,
ethnicity classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/about/Classifications/ns_ethnic_classification.asp and
soci-economic classifications available at www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
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Vacancies & redundancies
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
Employment Service (based on job centre counts) available though www.nomisweb.co.uk
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
The national press and trade journals will highlight recent redundancies and the latter job vacancies.
Ad Hoc employer surveys carried out by organisations including Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and National Trade Organisations (NTOs) highlight hard to fill vacancies.
How do I do this?
National level estimates available through careful analysis of published reports and data collected from trade associations and government-based statistics such as those collected by the Employment Service. However, aligning these estimates with the DCMS sectors is problematic in all but the widest definitional sense.
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Value of voluntary work (see also number of volunteers)
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
Some voluntary sector organisations will be picked up by the ABI(2) www.statistics.gov.uk/abi, although many will be too small in terms of turnover. Standard Industrial Classifications will be required for this data.
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
Local surveys of participation in voluntary organisations.
How do I do this?
It is difficult to measure the value of voluntary activity because in most instances it is provided free, and hence is not included in standard GVA calculations. Two methods are available to attach a price to volunteering: the opportunity cost approach, which measure income forgone in participating in a voluntary activity, or the market prices approach, which measures the cost of purchasing the service. Alternative methods include multiplying the numbers employed by an arbitrary wage (e.g. minimum wage). Note, this approach will fail to account for the broader social goals and benefits from participating in voluntary activity
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Volunteers; number of
Data Sources/Sets: Governmental
The Home Office web-site www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/voluntary1.html
The 2000 British Crime Survey (BCS) www.homeoffice.gov.uk asked the survey respondents about their voluntary and community activities, and provides information on volunteering, albeit at the national level
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
Ad hoc regionally funded research including East Midlands Development Agency, Mapping the voluntary and community sector in the East Midlands, 2001.
Data Sources/Sets: non-Governmental
The National Training Organisations for community and voluntary sector can provide broad estimates for the size, scale and contribution of the voluntary sector
NTO voluntary sector www.vsnto.org.uk
How do I do this?
Measuring the sector's contribution is fraught with methodological problems and insufficient data. What is generally available tends to be at the national level, with regional based data derived from ad hoc surveys. None of the data is purely Cultural Sector specific. For a good background into the whole broader issue see 'Mapping the contribution of the voluntary and community sector in Yorkshire & the Humber', Yorkshire & Humber Regional Forum, May 2001. www.yhregforum.org.uk
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