Meeting of the Working Group “Cultural statistics” 20-21.05.10

Draft agenda Introduction, approval of the agenda Recent cultural policy developments at EU level (by DG EAC) Current activities of Eurostat (overview): work with the ESSnet-culture preparation of the pocketbook on cultural statistics collaboration with international organisations

Draft agenda - cont. Development work of the four ESSnet Task Forces (presentations and discussions): TF 1 - Framework of cultural statistics TF 2 - Expenditure on culture TF 3 - Cultural/creative industries TF 4 - Cultural participation Proposal for the new pocketbook on cultural statistics: general presentation of the content - comments presentation and discussion about two particular topics: cultural employment cultural participation (data from the SILC ahm 2006, AES wave 2007, ICT) Conclusions, future steps