1. in France Loup Wolff Ministry of culture and communication
Department for statistics (DEPS)

2. Summary Our missions Keep measuring cultural participation
Improve the use of administrative data
Develop access to new data sources

3. Our missions DEPS is both
a department within the ministry of culture
and an agency of the French INS
Fieldwork: cultural sectors at the widest range (i.e. not only public structures, “legitimate” forms of art,..)
Collect, analyse and produce statistics on culture : participation, employment, public and private expenditure,…
Using INS sources (LFS, AES, SILC,…)
Producing our own data
Collecting available data from our partners (local governments, agencies,...)
Disseminate our publications to inform public debate

4. Our missions
Publication on spontaneous declarations about “culture” in France

5. Our missions
Domains qualified as lightly cultural

6. Our missions
Domains qualified as very cultural

7. Keep measuring cultural participation
Currently a big issue for the department :
measuring participation in a wide range of cultural activities (from museum and theatres, to knitting and tuning)
Replacing these figures in a longitudinal perspective
Covering digital practices
Need for a household survey able to register actual participation (and non participation)
Working on the 6th edition of the cultural participation survey (previous editions in 1973, 1981, 1988, 1998 and 2008)

8. Keep measuring cultural participation

9. Keep measuring cultural participation

10. Keep measuring cultural participation

11. Keep measuring cultural participation

12. Improve the use of administrative data
Analysing public expenditure
State
But also local governments that are massive providers
National accounts
Importance of the 2012 ESSnet framework to define cultural sectors and occupations
International trade
Data deriving from various partners (employment agencies, professional organisations,...)

13. Develop access to new data sources
Necessary when measuring digital participation
Limits of household surveys methodologies
New data providers (mainly from the private sector)
Working on an experimental survey on Web visitors
But also developing an expertise on “traces” data:
Consumption
Platform data?