Culture statistics - cultural employment

This article forms part of the online publication Culture statistics . It provides an overview of developments in cultural employment and information on cultural employment’s share of total employment. The data on cultural employment are derived from the European Union labour force survey (EU-LFS) . The analysis looks in detail at cultural employment according to various socio-economic aspects: age, sex, level of educational attainment, professional status and whether full- or part-time. The article also looks at the employment characteristics of creative and performing artists, authors, journalists and linguists.