This is a recently published document from Statistics Canada, analysing the statistical change in Canadians' consumption of entertainment from 1998 to 2003. Link to the document here.
We (as Canadian dance workers) need to increasingly justify our public worth and cultural value to hostile government cuts to the arts. Use this information as fodder!
They report an increase in demand for entertainment outside the home; in this article discusses attendance at movie theatres, performing arts and spectator sports events and admissions to heritage institutions.
Did you know the average household's spending on entertainment services outside the home rose by nearly one-third in nominal terms from 1998 to 2003, a period in which the all-items consumer price index rose by only 13%?
Knowing consumer characteristics such as income, type of household and geographical location can affect entertainment spending will help us to create thoughtful, rational and articulate counterarguments to the ones presented by the current conservative government.
- R
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