Consumer Spending on Culture in Canada, the Provinces and 15 Metropolitan Areas in 2005
Arts Research MonitorThis report shows that Canadian consumers spent over $25 billion on cultural goods and services in 2005, including art supplies and musical instruments, art works and events, home entertainment, movie theatre admissions, photographic equipment and se… View this resource
Vital Signs
Arts Research MonitorThe 11 local reports in the Vital Signs series provide some interesting information about the arts in the selected communities. However, because some of the indicators do not follow standard definitions from Statistics Canada or other cultural sector… View this resource
Culture Employment in a North American Context, 1981 to 2001
Arts Research MonitorThis report compares cultural employment in Canada and the United States using 21 occupation groups from the Canadian and American censuses. This extremely narrow definition of cultural employment (much narrower than the 48 occupations used in the St… View this resource
Towards a Geography of Culture: Culture Occupations Across the Canadian Urban-Rural Divide
Arts Research MonitorThis report examines cultural employment in many rural and urban communities using 48 occupational groups from the 2001 Census. This definition, based on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Framework for Cultural Statistics, includes occupations in the lite… View this resource
From Road to Rinks: Government Spending on Infrastructure in Canada, 1961 to 2005
Arts Research MonitorThis report examines spending on government-owned infrastructure, including cultural infrastructure. A key conclusion of the report is that recent growth in spending on various types of infrastructure “has not been strong enough to prevent more and m… View this resource


