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Measuring economic impact of film and video production: State multipliers

State economic multipliers

Specific multipliers currently available from state-based studies include the following:

	Gross value added multiplier.	FTE Employment multiplier. (FTEs per $ million – adjusted to 2005/06)
NSW – motion picture services sector (2000/01)¹	1.03	9.3
Victoria – film and TV (1996/97 tables)²	1.27	12.3
Queensland – motion picture, radio and TV service (1996/97 tables)³	1.06	15.1
Queensland – film, television and entertainment software (2005)⁴	1.34	not published
SA – cultural and recreational services (1999/00)⁵	1.02	11.1
SA – film and video production and distribution (est. for 1999/00)⁶	1.27	22.0

Source:
1. Centre for Agricultural and Regional Economics Pty Ltd (NSW).
2. Derived from Victorian tables prepared by Centre of Policy Studies for the Department on Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD).
3. Queensland Input-Output Tables 107 Industries, 1996-97, Office of the Government Statistician, Queensland Government.
4. Mapping Queensland’s Creative Industries: Economic Fundamentals, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre.
5. Film Industry Economic Multipliers: A Brief Discussion, Barry Burgan, April 2002. It should be noted there is a later set of IO tables available for South Australia, but not with the sectoral definition relating to film production, so the information from this paper is still provided here.
6. Film Industry Economic Multipliers: A Brief Discussion, Barry Burgan, April 2002. This multiplier is indirectly derived from IO tables, based on the ratios at the national level.

Notes:
Sectoral definitions and the time periods on which these multipliers are based differ between studies, so the figures are not comparable.

Measuring economic impact:: National multipliers.

For more information on different types of multipliers, their methodologies and their uses, please refer to the following AFC publication: The Economic Contribution of a Film Project – A Guide to Issues and Practice in the use of Multipliers.