The difficulty of measuring culture and diversity. Comparison of three international models of cultural measurement: FCS-2009, ESSnet-2012 and CAB-2015

  • Marta Fuertes Universidad de Salamanca e Instituto de Iberoamérica.
  • Ángel Badillo Universidad de Salamanca e Instituto de Iberoamérica.
Keywords: Cultural and Creative Industries, Culture Metrics, Cultural Policy, Satellite Accounts on Culture.

Abstract

The growing interest in quantifying the cultural and creative industries, visualize the economic contribution of activities related to culture demands first of all the construction of internationally comparable analysis frameworks. Currently there are three major bodies which address this issue and whose comparative study is the focus of this article: the UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics (FCS-2009), the European Framework for Cultural Statistics (ESSnet-Culture 2012) and the methodological resource of the “Convenio Andrés Bello” group for working with the Satellite Accounts on Culture in Ibero-America (CAB-2015). Cultural sector measurements provide the information necessary for correct planning of cultural policies which in turn leads to sustaining industries and promoting cultural diversity. The text identifies the existing differences in the three models and three levels of analysis, the sectors, the cultural activities and the criteria that each one uses in order to determine the distribution of the activities by sector. The end result leaves the impossibility of comparing cultural statistics of countries that implement different frameworks.

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Marta Fuertes, Universidad de Salamanca e Instituto de Iberoamérica.
Directora del grupo de investigación
GRIC (Grupo de Investigación Interdisciplinar en Industrias Creativas, Culturales y de la Comunicación,
http://gric.usal.es) (España)
Ángel Badillo, Universidad de Salamanca e Instituto de Iberoamérica.
Investigador Principal de Lengua y
Cultura del Real Instituto Elcano. Miembro del GRIC (Grupo de Investigación Interdisciplinar en Industrias
Creativas, Culturales y de la Comunicación, http://gric.usal.es) (España)
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Published
2016-06-07
How to Cite
Fuertes M. y Badillo Á. (2016). The difficulty of measuring culture and diversity. Comparison of three international models of cultural measurement: FCS-2009, ESSnet-2012 and CAB-2015. CIC. Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, 21, 63-95. https://doi.org/10.5209/CIYC.52878