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By Hans Hoegh-Guldberg (Economic Strategies).
Last updated: 3 April 2008

A statistical database is being developed using the nine main music sector groups shown in the statistics section, with appropriate subgroups to navigate through the database. While official or other data are not often readily available, we hope with the help of others to be able eventually to provide at least some indicative data or estimates for all groups. For the time being, however, several of the ‘boxes’ provided for the statistics remain empty.

In each statistical article there is or will be a link to an Adobe Reader file (pdf format). These links will be activated as each subgroup becomes populated. Links are also being developed to other relevant parts of the MCA knowledge base to assist navigation.

If you haven’t already done so, you will need to download the free Adobe Reader to read the statistics. It is also available through Google.

The organisation of the statistics was developed from A Statistical Framework for the Music Sector (April 2005), by Hans Hoegh-Guldberg and Richard Letts, as further explained in ‘The music sector defined’ in the Context section. The initial response of the Cultural Ministers’ Council’s Statistics Working Group (SWG), who commissioned the report, was to ask the Australian Bureau of Statistics to compile Music in Australia: A Statistical Overview, which was published in February 2007.

The page named Quality of music statistics discusses the merits of SWG’s initiative and explores the gaps that remain before a comprehensive statistical picture of the Australian music sector can emerge. We consider the paper important and urge readers to read it.