MORE USEFUL STATISTICS RELEASED

Ottawa , Decem­ber 17, 2004 – Three sep­a­rate reports were issued this week, pro­vid­ing new sta­tis­tics on the per­form­ing arts, tele­vi­sion view­ing and radio lis­ten­ing, and on the charitable/non-profit sector.

Sta­tis­tics Canada released fig­ures on 15 Decem­ber relat­ing to the not-for-profit per­form­ing arts.   Some of the high­lights include:

•  Total rev­enue increased by over 10% between 2001 and 2003, from $543.7 mil­lion to $602 million.

•  Total expenses increased by almost exactly the same percentage.

•  Gov­ern­ment sup­port increased by nearly 11%, while pri­vate sec­tor sup­port grew by 11.5%.

•  The per­form­ing arts com­pa­nies exam­ined* pro­duced 45,600 performances.

•  Over­all atten­dance remained much the same (14.8 mil­lion) although a higher num­ber of per­for­mances tar­geted to youth resulted in an increased per­cent­age of younger atten­dees (up 11.7% since 1999).

•  The­atre, dance and opera showed increases in atten­dance and earned rev­enue; music com­pa­nies indi­cated a decline with total accu­mu­lated debt drop­ping to $14.5 mil­lion from $18 mil­lion in 2001.

*642 not-for-profit per­form­ing arts com­pa­nies were sur­veyed; the response rate was an excep­tional 92%.

Despite the seem­ingly good num­bers, the sur­vey also indi­cated that 300 (47%) of the com­pa­nies reported losses totalling $12.2 mil­lion.    The­atre com­pa­nies were the only group which reported a sur­plus last year, and even here it was less than that reported two years ear­lier.   Small and medium sized the­atres reported deficits in 2003; for small the­atres, this was the third con­sec­u­tive year of deficit.

The com­plete StatsCan report is avail­able at www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/041215/d041215b.htm

The Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) has issued the 2004 Broad­cast­ing Pol­icy Mon­i­tor­ing Report, described as a “com­pendium of sta­tis­tics on the Cana­dian radio and tele­vi­sion indus­tries”.   This report indi­cates drama and com­edy remain the most pop­u­lar and widely watched pro­grammes among Eng­lish Cana­di­ans (44%), fol­lowed by news (18%) and sports (11%).

The report shows a drop in radio lis­ten­ing by young peo­ple, espe­cially in the 12–17 year bracket (from 11.3 hours per week in 1999 to 8.5 hours per week in 2003).   Inter­net use, how­ever, is up (76% of Cana­di­ans have inter­net access at home, work or else­where com­pared to 68% a year earlier).

The com­plete report is avail­able on the CRTC’s web­site at www.crtc.gc.ca CCA is work­ing on an indepth analy­sis of the report for the month of Jan­u­ary.   The CRTC will be issu­ing future edi­tions of the Broad­cast­ing Pol­icy Mon­i­tor­ing Report in the spring of each year, com­menc­ing in 2005.

Cor­ner­stones of Com­mu­nity: High­lights of the National Sur­vey of Non­profit and Vol­un­tary Orga­ni­za­tions , a new study released today by the Cana­dian Cen­tre for Phil­an­thropy reveals new data on Ontario ‘s char­i­ta­ble and non­profit sec­tor.   The National Sur­vey of Non­profit and Vol­un­tary Orga­ni­za­tions was con­ducted by a group of orga­ni­za­tions in part­ner­ship with Sta­tis­tics Canada.

Key find­ings include:

• The 45,000 orga­ni­za­tions in this sec­tor report more than $48 bil­lion in annual revenue.
• The sec­tor employs 959,000 paid staff.
• 45% of paid staff are employed part-time.
• Over half of the non­profit and vol­un­tary orga­ni­za­tions are run by vol­un­teers with no paid staff.
• Ontario ‘s 7.8 mil­lion vol­un­teers con­tribute 791 mil­lion hours – or the equiv­a­lent of 412,000 full time jobs — to these char­i­ta­ble and non­profit orga­ni­za­tions (an aver­age of just over 100 hours per person).

Faith orga­ni­za­tions are the most com­mon type of char­i­ta­ble and non­profit orga­ni­za­tion in Ontario (23%) but account for only 6% of total rev­enues.   Hos­pi­tals, uni­ver­si­ties and col­leges rep­re­sent less than 1% of all orga­ni­za­tions, and account for 38% of total revenues.

The full report is avail­able at www.nonprofitscan.ca