[OpenSpending] culture spending data

Fri Jul 12 07:46:03 UTC 2013

Update about my search for data on funding for arts and culture:
Eurostat has data on government expenditure until 2011 for EU-27 and
the member states, following the Cofog standard (GF08). However I am
still looking for more recent data, especially for the worst crisis
hit countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland). If you have
seen data on this, please let me know. Government budgets are normally
not presented according to the Cofog standard, but that doesn't matter
as long as I can find the data for i.e the cultural ministries'
budgets.

Best
Olav

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Olav Anders Øvrebø
<olav.ovrebo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am researching an article about spending on culture around Europe.
> My aim is to create an overview over the impacts on the cultural
> sector of austerity/the economic crisis. It would be great to get tips
> on how to find the relevant data (a challenge here is that it has to
> be quite recent, otherwise I won't find out about the "crisis
> effect"). Preferably covering EU-27 (28?) or as many countries as
> possible, but data on single countries also interesting:
> - State funding (budgets) of culture, maybe also regional level
> - Non-state financing of culture, i.e sponsorships from businesses,
> funding by foundations etc
> - The public's use of culture, i.e cinema visits, library lending,
> book reading etc
> - Employees in the cultural sector
>
> All the best
> Olav