BC Arts Cuts

Since the BC goverment no longer has the space for their own studies on their website, I thought I would help them out a bit.

From Socio – Economic Impacts of Arts and Cultural
Organizations in BC 2006, prepared forBC Liberals:

Conclusions:

This study is based on data from 357 arts and cultural organization of BC which applied
for grants to the BC Arts Council. 300 of these were successful applicants and received
$9,569,009 in awards. The economy-wide economic impacts (benefits) of initial
expenditures by the successful organizations are calculated. These organizations spent
$155 million on initial expenditures. For every dollar of initial expenditure, additional
spending in the range of $0.57 (without induced impacts) and $0.87 (with induced
impacts) are generated in the BC economy.

The initial spending of $155 million by the arts and cultural organizations generated a
total value added (GDP) in the range of $129 to $156 millions. For every dollar of initial
spending:
• the total (direct and spin-off) value added is in the range of $0.83 and $1.00;

• the total value of labour income generated is in the range of $0.68 to $0.76 in the
provincial economy.

There are 2,125 direct jobs (based on data of the 300 successful applicants) in the arts and
cultural sector. For every direct job (person years) in the arts and cultural sector of BC
between 1.32 and 1.52 jobs are created in the whole economy, or 0.3 to 0.5 additional
jobs. The majority of spin-off jobs are in the trades, other services, professional, scientific
and technical services sectors of BC.

The 300 arts and cultural organization in BC which received $9,560,009 in total grants
from the government of BC generated a very significant stream of government revenues:
• the government of BC received in the range of $10,040,674 to $13,008,696 in
provincial taxes;
• local governments received between $1,265,464 and $2,156,734 in property
taxes;
• the federal government received revenues in the range of $23,166,466 to
$26,150,462