Canadian Cultural Labour Force Survey (1993)

Other Studies of Multiple Artist Populations

Investigator: Statistics Canada

Population: Paid and unpaid "career-oriented people working as artists, administrators, professionals and technicians" in visual arts, crafts, literature, dance, theatre, music, film and video, broadcasting, sound recording, book publishing, magazine publishing, public libraries and "heritage institutions."

Identification method: Membership lists provided by cultural-sector professional associations and unions, publishers, recording companies, public libraries and heritage institutions, with less complete data on workers in design, cultural education and private libraries. Approximately 1000 lists in all.

Sampling procedure: Sampled from lists; further information unavailable in works reviewed.

N and Response rate: Unavailable in works reviewed.

Publications: Statistics Canada, Focus on Culture 7, 3 (1994)

Jeffrey Frank, "Canada’s Cultural Labour Force." Canadian Social Trends, Summer 1996.

Summary: The most ambitious survey of artists in Canada, the Cultural Labour Force Survey interviewed a wide range of artists, as well as individuals working for cultural organizations in managerial, technical and related jobs. Commissioned by Canada’s Human Resources Development Ministry the study was undertaken by the Culture Statistics Program of Statistics Canada. It focussed on demographic characteristics, labor market status, employment patterns and income. Artists for whom artistic work was not a primary source of income and artists dependent upon freelance or other contingent work may be underrepresented.