UIS Culture Statistics: Program of Work Meeting of the WG Culture Statistics  Eurostat, Luxembourg 23-24 November 2016 José Pessoa Head of Culture Statistics, UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Presentation Outline The Need for the Sustainable Development of Cultural Statistics: UIS Strategy UIS-Eurostat Collaboration

Global Agenda UN General Assembly underscores culture as key to the SDG-2030 Agenda Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 plan of action : culture is a key component EU in 2013 Recognised potential of the creative and culture sector to boost jobs and growth 2012 UNESCO Hangzhou Declaration endorsed Culture for Sustainable Development Africa in 2012: Culture as a catalyst for Socio-Economic and Political Transformation

Measuring Culture: A Challenge for UIS at the International Level What are current and emerging global policy priorities in culture? What data and indicators need to be produced? How to support countries in improving their capacity to produce and use cultural statistics? How to increase the amount of financial resources available for “Cultural Statistics” globally and nationally?

UIS Culture Statistics: Mandate Develop appropriate methodologies, standards and international recommendations that will support the improvement of existing cultural statistics and foster the development of new cultural statistics globally. Undertake the collection of selected policy-relevant cultural data via global surveys. Develop and maintain cross-national databases for selected cultural domains Produce and disseminate timely and policy relevant internationally comparable data and indicators.

UIS Culture Statistics: Mandate Produce and disseminate timely and policy relevant analysis. Provide training to support countries ability to produce cultural statistics for national purposes and to report to UIS culture surveys. Provide countries with technical assistance in selected areas of cultural statistics. Support the work of UNESCO CLT sector and its cultural conventions in the use and promotion of statistical measurement and on the use of data and indicators to support evidence-based policy formulation.

UIS Culture Statistics: Objectives The development of statistical concepts, standards and methodologies in cultural statistics. The administration of culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis. The provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states. The promotion of cultural statistics globally.

Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies Provides concepts and definitions Guide for the production of comparable statistics Supports the development of indicators and analytical research in the culture sector

Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies: handbook series

Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies: handbook series

Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: surveys Survey of Feature Film Statistics Biennial Survey cycle: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 Annual survey cycle: 2017, 2018… Survey of Cultural Employment Annual survey cycle: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018… Database of Cultural Goods and Services Trade Statistics Secondary data collection (from UNSD and WTO) Annual update and irregular publication of analysis (2016)

Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: film sector

Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: Cultural Diversity and Cultural Trade

Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states Regional Workshops (2008-2015) Training on the 2009 UNESCO FCS and selected topics in cultural statistics Regional Workshops (2017-?) Training on cultural employment data and analysis, cultural trade data and analysis, heritage statistics…

Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states National Workshops Technical assistance Advocacy and sensitisation for cultural statistics Training in culture statistics Country specific Technical assistance on request Country specific needs

Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states

Report on the UIS Culture Statistics Program submitted to UN Statistical Commission in 2016 J. Culture statistics Action taken by the Commission 21. The Commission considered item 4 (j) of the agenda at its 6th and 7th meetings, on 10 and 11 March 2016. It had before it a report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on selected activities of its culture statistics programme (E/CN.3/2016/28). 22. At its 7th meeting, on 11 March, the Commission took note of the report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on selected activities of its culture statistics programme (E/CN.3/2016/28) (see chap. I, sect. B, decision 47/116).

Key New Initiatives International Recommendations for Culture Satellite Account (CSA) Global Monitoring of SDG 11.4.1 New global data collection Culture Thematic Indicators to support SDG-2030

Past UIS-Eurostat Collaboration Cultural Employment Statistics Eurostat participated at the UIS Interagency meeting (2011) Eurostat participated on the UIS Expert Group on Cultural Employment Statistics (2013, 2014) Heritage Statistics Eurostat participated at the Meeting of the UIS Expert Group on Heritage Statistics (2016)

Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration Cultural Employment Data Methodology - Common methodology: Occupations + Industries Cultural weights EUROSTAT - 3 and 4-digit level - ISCO 08 - NACE - scope UIS - 4-digit level - ISCO-08 -ISIC 4 - Scope: craft codes

Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration Survey of Cultural Employment: Methodology UIS cultural employment survey test phase 2011-2012, Eurostat data was used to estimate the cultural weights and cultural employment. Inconclusive results Too many data were unreliable or deleted for confidentiality issues Not enough detailed data - digit level of classification

Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration Survey of Cultural Employment: Data Collection 2015 UIS Survey of Cultural Employment - some European countries noted that UIS should collect data on cultural employment directly from EUROSTAT For this to happen; Scope and definitions need to be aligned Same codes need to be used Partial code methodology needs to be agreed to Eurostat would need to collect more detailed data – more detailed digit level UIS has excluded ICH from total to align with Eurostat methodology

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