Paid and unpaid work in culture activities

About 3.5 million Australians aged 15 years and over have worked in culture and leisure activities.

This figure, collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, is for both paid and unpaid work, in the 12 months prior to April 2007.

Of the 3.5 million people involved, 1.1 million received payment�about 30 per cent of all participants. This includes people who received goods and services as payment.

Paid and unpaid work in culture and leisure activities (a)

Activity	Number of people (�000)
	2001	2004	2007
Heritage
Museums	48.2	43.8	57.9
Public art galleries	40.8	43.5	49.2
Libraries and archives	76.0	87.8	108.5
Heritage organisations	53.7	62.2	96.0
Botanic gardens	23.8	23.0	28.2
National parks and reserves	76.9	113.0	94.9
Zoos and aquariums	14.1	15.9	13.1
Total heritage	300.0	329.1	371.0
Arts
Visual art activities (including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, creating artworks with a computer, and other visual art activities)	503.2	789.9	1,411.7
Craft activities (including pottery and ceramics, textiles, jewellery making, furniture-making and wood crafts, glass crafts, and other craft activities)	396.4	542.7	960.8
Writing	536.9	556.5	606.5
Publishing	152.0	162.2	208.4
Performing arts	364.6	423.9	506.3
Music	281.9	305.2	335.1
Radio	90.7	93.0	105.9
Television	83.6	76.2	77.4
Film production	44.4	74.9	101.0
Cinema and video distribution	20.1	28.1	32.5
Designing websites	202.5	189.2	254.3
Designing computer games and other interactive software	46.4	54.6	75.4
Design activities (including architecture, graphic, fashion, advertising, and other design activities)	349.8	370.2	459.2
Teaching	164.4	183.2	256.7
Festival organising	193.9	252.2	409.8
Art and craft show organising	122.5	153.2	200.0
Government arts departments and agencies	28.3	22.0	41.1
Total arts	2,166.1	2,548.0	3,386.7
Total	2,327.5	2,711.4	3,531.0