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September 15, 2014CULTURE SATELLITE ACCOUNT The Canadian Culture Satellite Account (CSA) developed by Statistics Canada, with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage and its many partners, was released on September 10, 2014. The Canadian CSA provides measures of the economic importance of culture (inclusive of the arts and heritage) and sport in Canada in terms of output, gross domestic product and employment, for reference year 2010. The CSA is a product of both the 2011 Canadian Framework for Culture Statistics (CFCS) and the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA). The CFCS provides the guiding principles to define and identify cultural economic activity, whereas the CSNA provides the mechanism and data to derive the estimates.
In the CSA, culture is defined as a creative, artistic activity, the goods produced by it, and the preservation of heritage. Sport is defined as an individual or group activity often pursued for fitness during leisure time which may be undertaken for fun or competition. Sport includes recreational sports and physical activities, as well as professional, semi-professional or amateur sport clubs and independent athletes that are primarily engaged in presenting sporting events before an audience. Culture and sport estimates are mutually exclusive of one another.
Highlights
* Culture GDP at basic prices equaled $47.8 billion, contributing 3.1% to Canada’s GDP in 2010.
* Culture jobs accounted for 647,300 jobs in 2010, contributing 3.7% to total employment.
* Culture output totaled $93.2 billion or 3.0% as a share of total economy.
* Sport GDP equaled $4.5 billion, contributing 0.3% to Canada’s economy in 2010.
* Sport output totaled $7.2 billion or 0.2%, as a share of total economy.
* Sport contributed 93,500 jobs (0.5%) to total employment in Canada.
Over the next few years, as the CSA will be produced on a recurrent basis, users will be able to get an understanding of how economic activity in the culture and sport sector in Canada changes over time.
The production of the Canadian Culture Satellite Account is the first step in understanding and measuring the importance of culture and sport in Canada. The development of provincial and territorial estimates (reference year 2010) and indicators (reference years 2009 to 2013), are the next steps in the evolution of the CSA. Work on both of these initiatives has already begun with results expected in the near future.
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Canadian Culture Satellite Account, 2010, Statistics Canada, Research Paper, Income and Expenditure Accounts Technical Series, Catalogue no. 13-604-M — No. 75, September 2014.