The Creative Industries Focus On reports expands on the Creative Industries Economic Estimates published in January 2015.

“Creative Industries: Focus on Exports” covers the value of the exports of services from the UK Creative Industries in 2013, broken down by export market.

“Creative Industries: Focus on Employment” covers the number of jobs in the Creative Economy is provided, broken down by:

• region or devolved administration
• highest level of qualification
• gender
• ethnicity

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009), as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area. The responsible statistician for this release is Mary Gregory (020 7211 2377). For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at CIEEBulletin@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

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The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

Content

The Creative Industries Focus on reports expand on the Creative Industries Economic Estimates published in January 2016.

“Creative Industries: Focus on Employment” covers the number of jobs in the Creative Industries and the Creative Economy in 2015, and is broken down by a number of characteristics, including:

• region or devolved administration
• highest level of qualification
• gender
• ethnicity
• socio-economic classification

“Creative Industries: Focus on Exports of Services” covers the value of exports of services for the UK Creative Industries in 2014, broken down by Creative Industries grouping and export market.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009), as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area. The responsible statisticians for these releases are Penny Allen (0207 211 2380) and Becky Woods (0207 211 6134). For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email Penny or Becky at evidence@culture.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

​This publication has been updated on 20 June 2016 and 4 July 2016 to correct data in the statistical release Creative Industries: Focus on Employment published on 9 June 2016.

Amendments on 20 June: The percentage of BAME within the UK Economy was incorrectly reported on page 21. This has now been corrected in the PDF document to 11.3 per cent. There are no changes to any other figures in this report or other documents on this page.

Amendments on 4 July: The 2011 total in Table 1 and Table 2 was incorrectly reported and should be 1,562,000. This has been corrected in the accompanying tables. The chart in Figure 8 was showing data for the Creative Economy rather than the Creative Industries. This has now been corrected.

These Creative Industries Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to measure the direct economic contribution of the Creative Industries to the UK Economy. An analysis of the contribution made by the Creative Industries to UK Employment, GVA and Exports of Services has been provided in this release. These estimates have been produced using ONS National Statistics sources.

Content

This release covers the gross value added (GVA) of the creative industries, and their contribution to the UK economy, including:

• Advertising and marketing
• Architecture
• Crafts
• Product design, graphic design and fashion design
• Film, TV, video, radio and photography
• IT, software and computer services
• Publishing
• Museums, galleries and libraries
• Music, performing arts and visual arts

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009), as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area. The responsible statistician for this release is Niall Goulding (020 7211 6085). For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@culture.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

This bulletin contains experimental statistics on gross value added (GVA), employment and numbers of businesses within the creative industries.

Please note that the methodology for these estimates was updated in 2011 and the figures in this 2010 report have been superseded by those in the 2011 report. Therefore for up-to-date figures on the Creative Industries and a time series covering the figures in this 2010 report please see the latest http://www.culture.gov.uk/publications/8682.aspx">Creative Industries Economic Estimates.

Released:

9 December 2010

Period covered:

2008 (GVA and Exports)
2010 (Employment and businesses)

Geographic coverage:

UK (GVA, Businesses and Exports)
Great Britain (Employment)

Next release date:

Autumn 2011

Summary

This bulletin provides estimates of the contribution of Creative Industries to the economy, using the latest data available. The majority of this data is taken from National Statistics sources produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Data sources include the http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/search/index.html?content-type=publicationContentTypes&nscl=Business+and+Energy&pubdateRangeType=last5yrs&pubdateRangeType=allDates&coverage=UK&newquery=annual+business+survey&pageSize=50&applyFilters=tr">Annual Business Survey (ABS), the http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/who-we-are/services/unpublished-data/business-data/idbr/index.html">Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) and the http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/search/index.html?content-type=Publication&nscl=Labour+Market&pubdateRangeType=last12months&pubdateRangeType=allDates&newquery=labour+force+survey&pageSize=25&applyFilters=true">Labour Force Survey (LFS). Our definition of the Creative Industries is taken from the http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/4632.aspx">2001 Creative Industries Mapping Document. Further information on this can be found in the technical note.

Experimental Statistics

As this is our first attempt to measure the Creative Industries using http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html">Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC 2007), this series of economic estimates are classed as experimental statistics. The statistics will be developed following further consultation with users. We are grateful for any feedback on the way in which we have used the SIC 2007 codes to measure the Creative Industries. If you would like to contribute to this process, please either use the feedback form below, or contact us at CIEEBulletin@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

• http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/CI_Economic_Estimates_feedback.rtf">Feedback form (RTF 44kb)
• http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/CI_Economic_Estimates_feedback.doc">Feedback form (Word 27kb)

Time Series and Future Developments

This set of Creative Industries Estimates represents a snapshot of the latest figures. Because of the change of http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html">Standard Industrial Classifications used to produce these estimates, the figures should not be directly compared to previous estimates, which were produced using the old Standard Industrial Classifications (2003). In 2011 we will work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to investigate the possibility of establishing a consistent back time series, so that these estimates are more comparable with previous ones. This will be a complex task, and may not be possible for all sectors.

We are also investigating the possibility of producing regional estimates for the Creative Industries, given the demand that we know exists for these.

Full Statistical Release

This contains the headline findings, data tables, and a full technical note with definitions, methodology and a full list of the SIC codes used to produce these statistics.

• http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/CIEE_Full_Release_Dec2010.pdf">Full Statistical Release (PDF 279kb)
• <a rel="external" href="http://www.cultur

Headline Findings

1. Contribution to the economy - Gross Value Added (Tables 1a and 1b) * The Creative Industries, excluding Crafts and Design, accounted for 6.2% of Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2007. * The Creative Industries grew by an average of 5% per annum between 1997 and 2007. This compares to an average of 3% for the whole of the economy over this period. * Software, Computer Games & Electronic Publishing has had the highest average growth (9% p.a.).
2. Exports of services (Table 2) * Exports of services by the Creative Industries totalled £16.6 billion in 2007. This equated to 4.5% of all goods and services exported. * 33% of the total Creative Industries exports were contributed by the Software, Computer Games & Electronic Publishing sector.
3. Employment (Table 3) * In the summer quarter of 2008, creative employment totalled just under 2 million jobs. This comprised over 1.1 million jobs in the Creative Industries and over 800,000 further creative jobs within businesses outside these industries. * Total creative employment increased from 1.6 million in 1997 to nearly 2 million in 2008, an average growth rate of 2% per annum, compared to 1% for the whole of the economy over this period. * The Software, Computer Games & Electronic Publishing sector showed growth in employment of 5% per annum between 1997 and 2008, the highest across the Creative Industries.
4. Numbers of businesses (Table 4) * In 2008, there were an estimated 157,400 businesses in the Creative Industries on the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). The true proportion of enterprises that are in the Creative Industries is likely to be higher as certain sectors such as Crafts contain predominantly small businesses - see Annex C for further detail. * Around two-thirds of the businesses in the Creative Industries are contained within two sectors; Software, Computer Games and Electronic Publishing (75,000 companies) and Music and the Visual & Performing Arts (31,200 companies).

Creating a consistent time series for Radio and TV

Since the last bulletin (published in January 2009) there have been further revisions to the methodology and source data for the Radio and TV series. Therefore DCMS has undertaken detailed work to create a consistent time series and to ensure continued data quality for the creative industries. Please see the Technical Note below for explanation of these revisions and other methodological issues.

Workbooks

For further detail about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email the department via CIEEBulletin@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

Future Work

This will be the last bulletin produced using the existing structure. Future bulletins will need to use the new 2007 SIC structure and we will be undertaking work to map the new SIC codes to the creative industries over the coming months. This will include reviewing the framework for measuring the creative industries and the provision of regional data.

Pre-release access

For Ministerial briefing purposes only:
Minister for Creative Industries
Head of Creative Economy Programme
Senior Policy Adviser, CEP
Press Officer - Media Desk

Headline Findings

In 2018, DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism and Civil Society):

• imported £34.1 billion of services, 17.7% of all UK service imports.
• exported £62.6 billion of services, 21.0% of all UK service exports.

About

These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to provide an estimate of imports and exports of services by DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism and Civil Society).

This release only covers trade in services, and aims to provide a timely summary of the key findings for 2018, the latest year for which data are available. More information on trade in services, as well as estimates for trade in goods and for trade in the Tourism sector, will be provided later in 2020.

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy;

• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital Sector
• Gambling
• Sport
• Telecoms

A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations.

Released

06 February 2020

Feedback and consultation

DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs. DCMS welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@culture.gov.uk.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/code-of-practice/" class="govuk-link">Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

The responsible statisticians for this release is Rishi Vaidya. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@culture.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

Notice of revision, 18 March 2022

About

These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to provide an estimate of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by imports and exports of services and goods.

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy;

• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital Sector
• Sport
• Tourism

A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations.

Released

29 October 2020

Revised

18 March 2022

Feedback and consultation

DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs. DCMS welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/code-of-practice/" class="govuk-link">Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

The responsible statisticians for this release is Wilmah Tawaziwa. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

About

These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to provide an estimate of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by imports and exports of services and goods.

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy;

• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital Sector
• Gambling
• Sport
• Telecoms

A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations.

Released

11 February 2021

Feedback and consultation

DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs. DCMS welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

The responsible statistician for this release is Wilmah Deda. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

These bulletins contains statistics on gross value added, exports, employment and numbers of businesses within the creative industries.

Latest Release: 8 December 2011
Latest data relate to:

• 2009 (Export of services)
• 2008 - 2009 (GVA)
• 2009 - 2010 (Employment)
• 2009 - 2011 (Businesses

Please note: We have been investigating the possibility of producing a back time series, to make previous estimates that used the old Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC 2003) comparable with the most recent estimates, which use SIC 2007.

We investigated this because we were aware that many users would find this useful. Unfortunately, after thorough investigation and discussion with relevant colleagues at the Office for National Statistics and other departments, we decided that this analysis would involve too many assumptions and caveats. As such we do not feel that the quality of such estimates would be high enough to publish. However, we will make every effort to ensure that estimates produced from now on are comparable, so a new time series will develop as we go forward. If you have any comments, please get in touch with us at CIEEBulletin@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

08/12/2011
http://www.culture.gov.uk/publications/8682.aspx">Economic Estimates (8 December 2011)

09/12/2010
http://www.culture.gov.uk/publications/7634.aspx">Economic Estimates (9 December 2010)

Please note that the methodology for these estimates was updated in 2011 and the figures in this 2010 report have been superseded by those in the 2011 report. Therefore for up-to-date figures on the Creative Industries and a time series covering the figures in this 2010 report please see the December 2011 report.

10/02/2010
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6622.aspx">Economic Estimates (10 February 2010)

08/01/2009
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/5727.aspx">Economic Estimates (8 January 2009)

23/10/2007
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/5728.aspx">Economic Estimates (23 October 2007

For further detail about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email the department via CIEEBulletin@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

About

These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to provide an estimate of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by imports and exports of services and goods.

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy;

• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital sector
• Gambling (services only)
• Sport
• Telecoms (services only)
• Tourism (covered on a separate basis to the other sectors)

Users should note that unlike previous years, there are no breakdowns available by world regions of individual countries for the Tourism sector. This is because the underlying data source, the International Passenger Survey, was suspended from 16 March 2020 to January 2021 as a result of the pandemic. The headline figures can be found in Chapter 1 of the statistical release and on the https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/leisureandtourism/articles/overseastravelandtourism2020/2021-05-24">Overseas travel and tourism: 2020 ONS publication page.

A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations.

Released

First published on 10 March 2022.

Feedback and consultation

DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs. DCMS welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

The responsible statistician for this release is Wilmah Deda. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.