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Film and video production businesses: By state

Number of businesses, total income, employment levels, wages and salaries, by state

Next update December 2008

2002/03 | Earlier data

2002/03

NSW remains the dominant state for film and video production, accounting for 58 per cent of total industry income and 50 per cent of employment.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has changed the way it reports industry income and employment by state. Data is now assigned according to the state or states in which a business had a physical site rather than the state in which the business's head office was located, as was the case in previous surveys. This means that figures for 2002/03 are not comparable to previous years'.

Income by state

Employment by state

	No. businesses¹
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
2002/03	1,208	596	216	^69	^73	10	10	^22	2,174
% share	56%	27%	10%	3%	3%	<1%	<1%	1%	100%

	Income for year ($m)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
2002/03	928.1	378.3	230.7	21.5	^23.6	2.0	1.9	^10.4	1,596.6
% share	58%	24%	15%	1%	2%	<1%	<1%	<1%	100%

	Employment (no. people)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
2002/03	8,232	^6,343	1,185	204	^218	47	96	^103	16,427
% share	50%	39%	7%	1%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	100%

	Wages and salaries ($m)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
2002/03	221.8	^128.0	33.1	^8.1	^6.8	0.6	0.5	^3.4	402.4
% share	55%	32%	8%	2%	2%	<1%	<1%	<1%	100%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Television, Film and Video Production 2002/03 (cat. no. 8679.0).

Notes:
1. Multi-state businesses are counted in each state in which they operate, so counts of businesses for states and territories do not sum to the total for Australia.
^ Estimate has a relative standard error of 10–25 per cent and should be used with caution.
** Estimate has a relative standard error greater than 50 per cent.

Earlier data: based on head office location

	No. businesses¹
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
1993/94	652	347	73	50	58	6	5	7	1,179
1996/97	1,189	521	149	80	78	10	7	18	2,003
1999/00	1,112	534	122	85	86	9	7	21	1,975
% change	-6.5%	2.5%	-18.1%	6.3%	10.3%	-10.0%	0.0%	16.7%	-1.4%
% share	56%	27%	6%	4%	4%	1%	<1%	1%	100%

	Income for year ($m)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
1993/94	358.0	171.0	41.0	18.8	15.5	1.7		1.2	607.7
1996/97	650.7	290.0	**162.4	41.4	27.0	0.9	2.4	2.6	1,177.7
1999/00	916.6	339.4	146.1	31.2	32.3	2.0	2.2	4.1	1,473.8
% change	40.9%	17.0%	-10.0%	-24.6%	19.6%	122.2%.	-8.3%	57.7%	25.1%
% share	62%	23%	10%	2%	2%	<1%	<1%	<1%	100%

	Employment (no. people)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
1993/94	3,463	1,687	400	198	180	54		16	5,998
1996/97	5,437	2,348	459	719	537	26	29	36	9,591
1999/00	10,513	2,876	879	377	429	36	27	58	15,195
% change	93.4%	22.5%	91.5%	-47.6%	-20.1%	38.5%	-6.9%	61.1%	58.4%
% share	69%	19%	6%	3%	3%	<1%	<1%	<1%	100%

	Wages and salaries ($m)
	NSW	Vic	Qld	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT	Total
1993/94	102.0	60.3	14.2	7.4	4.3	1.0		0.4	189.6
1996/97	189.0	77.2	**54.0	8.1	6.9	0.2	0.9	0.8	337.1
1999/00	241.3	88.5	23.8	8.4	9.0	0.4	0.8	1.3	373.5
% change	27.7%	14.6%	-55.9%	3.7%	30.4%	100%	-11.1%	62.5%	10.8%
% share	65%	24%	6%	2%	2%	<1%	<1%	0%	100%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Film and Video Production and Distribution 1999/2000 (cat. no. 8679.0).

Notes:
Multi-state businesses are counted in each state in which they operate, so counts of businesses for states and territories do not sum to the total for Australia.
** Estimate has a relative standard error greater than 50 per cent.

Employment:: Industries by state for data from the Census.