Culture monitor
The Culture Monitor is an instrument by and for the cultural sector. The monitor brings together data on developments in cultural life and thus aims to contribute to a strong cultural sector in the Netherlands.
Domains
Domains within the Culture Monitor can be compared to cultural 'disciplines' or 'subsectors'. The various domain pages provide key figures and show the important trends and developments per domain.
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Architecture
The Architecture domain page mainly contains figures on the labour market and addresses developments such as the changing role of the architect in times of transition and fragmentation of the profession.
Audiovisual
On the Audiovisual domain page, we present information on the distribution and consumption of feature films in particular via cinemas and streaming services. Attention is also paid to audiovisual production.
Visual arts
The Visual Arts domain page discusses developments around the (labour) market position of visual artists and the associated challenges. It also looks at museums, art consumption and digitisation, among other things.
Design
On the Design domain page, topics covered include the labour market, designers' problem-solving capacity, and trends such as bio-design and AI design. Other hot topics include social design and sustainability.
Heritage
The Heritage domain page presents figures including the amount of movable and immovable heritage and discusses issues regarding the cultural significance of heritage and who defines what heritage is.
Games
On the Games domain page, we discuss developments in the production, distribution and consumption of digital games, as well as the infrastructure supporting them. As the games industry is inherently international, both Dutch and international data and insights are used.
Literature
The Literature domain page contains figures and information about the creators and readers of so-called general books, as well as about organisations such as publishers, bookstores and libraries that form the links between them.
Performing arts
The Performing Arts domain page provides figures on the number of performances and visits by discipline and the number of people employed in the performing arts.
Themes
Theme pages describe policy themes and topics of interest to the entire cultural sector.
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Professional practice
The Professional Practice theme page features information on the composition of the cultural labour market. The consequences of the Covid pandemic are examined for this group as a whole, in addition to considering differences per domain.
Culture and participation
This theme page shows trends in attendance and participation and is an invitation to explore more cultural statistics in the Dashboard of the Culture Monitor.
Culture across the regions
Where are the most venues, libraries, cinemas or museums located? To what extent is culture visited? The theme page describes (developments in) cultural offer, participation and money flows at the provincial level.
Digital transformation
The Digital Transformation page provides a quantitative inventory of data available to gain insight into how digital transformation is changing the cultural sector and the various domains within it.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
On this theme page, we explore research on Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the Dutch cultural sector: what issues are there and what makes monitoring complex?
Sustainability
The climate crisis and sustainability are increasingly important themes. This data story describes how the cultural sector is working on sustainability, what role the climate crisis plays in the work of creators, and what the consequences of climate change may be for the sector.
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