Statistical Insights on the Arts

I am excited and a bit nervous to announce a new structure to Hill Strategies’ work. Statistical insights on the arts will now be distributed as a “newsletter” at [...]

Key findings This report examines recent and longer-term data on workers at the core of the arts sector: artists. Key labour force data and trends are examined, largely based on data commissioned [...]

With the goal of enhancing the arts sector’s understanding of engagement behaviours and trends, this SIA Brief analyzes several Canadian information sources related to public engagement and [...]

This is the first statistical report in the new SIA Brief series, designed to offer insights into topics such as public engagement in the arts, the wellbeing of artists and arts organizations, [...]

Canadians’ Arts Participation, Health, and Well-Being, the 53rd report in the Statistical Insights on the Arts series, probes the relationships between 15 arts, culture, and heritage activities [...]

Based on custom data from Statistics Canada’s 2016 long-form census, this report provides an analysis of artists in Canadian municipalities, with a primary focus on groups of municipalities by [...]

A previous report in the Statistical Insights on the Arts series found that there are 158,100 artists in Canada, representing 0.87% of the overall Canadian labour force (also called the [...]

Based on the 2016 census, this report examines the number and incomes of artists in each of Canada’s provinces and territories. The report also provides a brief summary of the situation of [...]

The report focuses on the working lives of artists in Canada, including statistics on: The overall number of artists Artists by occupation Demographic information such as gender, education, age, [...]

This report examines the percentage of residents (15 or older) of Canadian provinces and 9 Census Metropolitan Areas who, in 2016, attended or participated in cultural activities. Statistics [...]