1. UIS Culture Statistics: Program of Work Meeting of the WG Culture Statistics  Eurostat, Luxembourg November 2016
José Pessoa
Head of Culture Statistics,
UNESCO Institute for Statistics

2. Presentation Outline
The Need for the Sustainable Development of Cultural Statistics: UIS Strategy
UIS-Eurostat Collaboration

3. Global Agenda
UN General Assembly underscores culture as key to the SDG-2030 Agenda
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) plan of action : culture is a key component
EU in 2013 Recognised potential of the creative and culture sector to boost jobs and growth
2012 UNESCO Hangzhou Declaration endorsed Culture for Sustainable Development
Africa in 2012: Culture as a catalyst for Socio-Economic and Political Transformation

4. Measuring Culture: A Challenge for UIS at the International Level
What are current and emerging global policy priorities in culture?
What data and indicators need to be produced?
How to support countries in improving their capacity to produce and use cultural statistics?
How to increase the amount of financial resources available for “Cultural Statistics” globally and nationally?

5. UIS Culture Statistics: Mandate
Develop appropriate methodologies, standards and international recommendations that will support the improvement of existing cultural statistics and foster the development of new cultural statistics globally.
Undertake the collection of selected policy-relevant cultural data via global surveys.
Develop and maintain cross-national databases for selected cultural domains
Produce and disseminate timely and policy relevant internationally comparable data and indicators.

6. UIS Culture Statistics: Mandate
Produce and disseminate timely and policy relevant analysis.
Provide training to support countries ability to produce cultural statistics for national purposes and to report to UIS culture surveys.
Provide countries with technical assistance in selected areas of cultural statistics.
Support the work of UNESCO CLT sector and its cultural conventions in the use and promotion of statistical measurement and on the use of data and indicators to support evidence-based policy formulation.

7. UIS Culture Statistics: Objectives
The development of statistical concepts, standards and methodologies in cultural statistics.
The administration of culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis.
The provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states.
The promotion of cultural statistics globally.

8. Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies
Provides concepts and definitions
Guide for the production of comparable statistics
Supports the development of indicators and analytical research in the culture sector

9. Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies: handbook series

10. Statistical concepts, standards and methodologies: handbook series

11. Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: surveys
Survey of Feature Film Statistics
Biennial Survey cycle: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
Annual survey cycle: 2017, 2018…
Survey of Cultural Employment
Annual survey cycle: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018…
Database of Cultural Goods and Services Trade Statistics
Secondary data collection (from UNSD and WTO)
Annual update and irregular publication of analysis (2016)

12. Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: film sector

13. Culture surveys, maintenance of international databases and production of analysis: Cultural Diversity and Cultural Trade

14. Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states
Regional Workshops ( )
Training on the 2009 UNESCO FCS and selected topics in cultural statistics
Regional Workshops (2017-?)
Training on cultural employment data and analysis, cultural trade data and analysis, heritage statistics…

15. Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states
National Workshops
Technical assistance
Advocacy and sensitisation for cultural statistics
Training in culture statistics
Country specific
Technical assistance on request
Country specific needs

16. Provision of training and technical assistance in cultural statistics to member states

17. Report on the UIS Culture Statistics Program submitted to UN Statistical Commission in 2016
J. Culture statistics
Action taken by the Commission
21. The Commission considered item 4 (j) of the agenda at its 6th and 7th meetings, on 10 and 11 March It had before it a report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on selected activities of its culture statistics programme (E/CN.3/2016/28).
22. At its 7th meeting, on 11 March, the Commission took note of the report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on selected activities of its culture statistics programme (E/CN.3/2016/28) (see chap. I, sect. B, decision 47/116).

18. Key New Initiatives
International Recommendations for Culture Satellite Account (CSA)
Global Monitoring of SDG
New global data collection
Culture Thematic Indicators to support SDG-2030

19. Past UIS-Eurostat Collaboration
Cultural Employment Statistics
Eurostat participated at the UIS Interagency meeting (2011)
Eurostat participated on the UIS Expert Group on Cultural Employment Statistics (2013, 2014)
Heritage Statistics
Eurostat participated at the Meeting of the UIS Expert Group on Heritage Statistics (2016)

20. Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration
Cultural Employment Data
Methodology -
Common methodology: Occupations + Industries
Cultural weights
EUROSTAT
- 3 and 4-digit level
- ISCO 08
- NACE
- scope
UIS
- 4-digit level
- ISCO-08
-ISIC 4
- Scope: craft codes

21. Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration
Survey of Cultural Employment: Methodology
UIS cultural employment survey test phase , Eurostat data was used to estimate the cultural weights and cultural employment.
Inconclusive results
Too many data were unreliable or deleted for confidentiality issues
Not enough detailed data - digit level of classification

22. Potential UIS-Eurostat Collaboration
Survey of Cultural Employment: Data Collection
2015 UIS Survey of Cultural Employment - some European countries noted that UIS should collect data on cultural employment directly from EUROSTAT
For this to happen;
Scope and definitions need to be aligned
Same codes need to be used
Partial code methodology needs to be agreed to
Eurostat would need to collect more detailed data – more detailed digit level
UIS has excluded ICH from total to align with Eurostat methodology

23. THANK YOU!