Culture represents two per cent of employment and almost as much in the production of the country – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The cultural activity employs nearly 89,000 people, accounting for about two percent of national employment, and represents about 1.9 percent of the country’s production, according to the Culture Satellite Account, on Thursday presented in Lisbon.

                     

                          The data on Thursday released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) refer to the weight of culture in the Portuguese economy in the three-year period 2010 / 2012, following the period immediately before and after the intervention troika in Portugal.

According to the presentation of these figures, taking place in a session at INE, the resented sector during this period, keeping pace the economy, but employment in the three years in question exceeded the “recorded, for example in the real estate industry or telecommunications.”

In terms of Gross Value Added (GVA) – the gross value of production less the costs of the production process – the culture had more weight in the economy than the food industry, with its average contribution of 2.7 billion euros a year (about 1.7% of the total), while the agricultural sector It stood at 1.5 percent, with 2.3 billion euros / year, and food industries by 1.6%.

In the same period, there If an increase of over 11% of exports of cultural products, while imports decreased by almost 10%, “balancing the national external balance” in the sector, which, however, “is still in deficit, a situation that has remained for several decades. “, as highlighted by the Secretary of State for Culture (SEC) said in a statement

The Satellite Account of Culture in Portugal considered close to 66,000″ economic units “allocated to different sectors: business public and private, government and non-profit entities.

In Portugal, the statement said the SEC, there were, “in 2012, almost 66 000 entities (65,918) to develop work in the field of culture” highlighting the performing arts and the bookseller subsector.

The creation of this Satellite Account of Culture in Portugal was announced in 2013 by the Secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Barreto Xavier, and results of a protocol cooperation between the INE and the Office of Strategy, Planning and Cultural SEC Assessment.