Government spending on culture / Facilities / Human resources / Local information
Volume 6 No 6 / November 15, 200715 November 2007
In this issue: Three recent studies examine data on the arts and culture in Canadian communities, including local cultural employment and spending on government-owned infrastructure (including cultural infrastructure).
Resources
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
Other Resources
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