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1. Persons employed in cultural occupations as their main job according to the Labour Force Survey

The definition of cultural industries and occupations is not drawn precisely and the EU is currently drafting a recommendation on how to define the field of culture. Therefore, there is no unambiguous solution as to how culture is calculated according to industry and occupation. The industrial activities and occupations used here are listed in more detail in the Quality Description. The used industrial classification is the Standard Industrial Classification 2008 and the used classification of occupations is the Classification of Occupations 2010.

The Labour Force Survey is a sample survey and it includes some bias caused by the method. Culture consists of fairly small groups by their activities and occupational groups and therefore this survey presents results separately only when the size of the group is around 10,000. Then the standard error for the result is about four per cent.

In cultural industries employment has fallen by 11.2 per cent from 2010 to 2014 and the number of employed persons working in main jobs was around 110,300 in 2014.

Of industries, publishing has contracted by approximately 23.5 per cent from 2010 to 2014, from about 16,611 to around 12,700 employed persons.

The number of employed persons in advertising went down by over 30 per cent from 2010. In 2014, there were around 8,800 employed persons, while in 2010 the number was still more than 12,700.

Creative, arts and entertainment activities have grown and around 13 per cent more are employed there than in 2010. In 2014, the activities employed close on 18,100 people against around 16,000 in 2010. (Table 1).

In 2014, around 128,500 persons were working in cultural occupations as their main job. The number of those working in cultural occupations has remained nearly unchanged in this decade.

The number of people working in advertising and marketing occupations has grown strongly and employed persons in these occupations now number around 22,200, while the figure was only around 13,400 at the beginning of this decade. However, the change is not fully reliable, due to changes in classifications and methodology. The number of architects and designers has fallen by around 30 per cent and in 2014, it was 14,800, on average. Employment among public relations professionals, archivists and librarians, and curators has also fallen by around 27 per cent. In contrast, the employment of those working as artists and authors has risen by around nine per cent (Table 2).

Table 1.Those employed in cultural industries as their main job in 2010 to 2014 according to the Labour Force Survey

TOL2008	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Publishing	16 611	17 167	17 238	14 109	12 702
Advertising	12 738	10 431	10 414	9 482	8 856
Libraries and archives and museums activities and preservation of historical sites and buildings	11 966	13 983	13 199	9 947	11 625
Creative, arts and entertainment activities	16 053	19 245	18 659	20 810	18 133
Other industries	51 375	42 151	40 058	37 207	58 994
Total	124 483	121 581	117 867	111 912	110 310
Source: Cultural statistics 2014. Statistics Finland

Table 2. Those employed in cultural occupations as their main job in 2011 to 2014 according to the Labour Force Survey

	2011	2012	2013	2014
Advertising, marketing	13 456	17 768	21 137	22 201
Architects, product and clothing designers, community and traffic planners	20 868	18 306	14 747	14 800
Public relations professionals, archivists, curators, librarians and related information professionals	16 862	16 396	16 672	12 259
Journalists	12 666	12 244	11 023	11 092
Artists and authors	17 237	16 707	18 130	18 839
Other cultural occupations	46 286	46 052	44 440	49 306
Total	127 374	127 473	126 149	128 498
Source: Labour Force Survey.Classification of Occupations 2010

Source: Cultural statistics 2014, Statistics Finland

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Director in charge: Riitta Harala

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Updated 27.8.2015