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Audiovisual industries: Occupations: Selected occupations, by sex

Proportion of men and women employed in various occupations in selected audiovisual industries, 1996–2006

Next update December 2011

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has used two classification systems for occupations in recent years. The Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO), which was used for 1996 and 2001 Census data, was replaced by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO), used to classify 2006 Census data. These classification changes have complicated the comparison of occupations over survey periods.

The coding algorithms used for ASCO and ANZSCO are quite different. If an employee has dual titles that cannot be coded to a single occupation, this is resolved by ANZSCO by assigning them to a ‘not further defined’ occupation, whereas ASCO codes them to the higher occupation in the hierarchy. For example, a shop assistant may work as a cashier and also stack shelves. A cashier is higher in the occupation hierarchy than someone stacking shelves. In ASCO, this would be resolved by assigning the person to the occupation highest in the hierarchy, i.e. a cashier. However in ANZSCO, the person may be assigned to a more general shop assistant code, e.g. shop assistant nfd, because they do more than one job.

The table below lists ASCO occupation classifications for 1996 and 2001 and ANZSCO for 2006. It does not include occupations where numbers varied by more than 10 per cent between ASCO and ANZSCO.

	1996			2001			2006			% change 01–06
	Total no.	% men	% women	Total no.	% men	% women	Total no.	% men	% women	% change 01–06
Artistic director	18	78%	22%	30	50%	50%	17	65%	35%	-43%
Illustrator	362	70%	30%	292	82%	18%	245	89%	11%	-16%
Author	204	50%	50%	262	61%	39%	185	58%	42%	-29%
Book or script editor	45	42%	58%	65	34%	66%	60	37%	63%	-8%
Actor	346	51%	49%	524	58%	42%	260	59%	41%	-50%
Television presenter	258	63%	37%	264	59%	41%	258	55%	45%	-2%
Television journalist	894	52%	48%	864	54%	46%	982	50%	50%	14%
Director (film, TV, radio or stage)	967	76%	24%	1,331	72%	28%	975	76%	24%	-27%
Program director (television or radio)	45	69%	31%	124	58%	42%	448	50%	50%	261%
Technical director	102	90%	10%	104	91%	9%	233	90%	10%	124%
Stage manager	80	80%	20%	110	64%	36%	63	73%	27%	-43%
Art director (film, TV, stage)	116	67%	33%	102	61%	39%	66	65%	35%	-35%
Director of photography	211	94%	6%	218	96%	4%	196	94%	6%	-10%
Film and video editor	878	74%	26%	1,203	79%	21%	1,357	77%	23%	13%
Sound technician	577	85%	15%	568	87%	13%	528	90%	10%	-7%
Camera operator (film, television or video)	874	97%	3%	1,130	95%	5%	1,027	95%	5%	-9%
Light technician	112	97%	3%	145	88%	13%	129	91%	9%	-11%
Make up artist	119	10%	90%	128	11%	89%	122	11%	89%	-5%
Production assistant (film, TV, radio or stage)	658	28%	72%	721	22%	78%	294	2%	98%	-59%
TV equipment and broadcast transmitter operator	550	76%	24%	499	73%	27%	434	69%	31%	-13%
Motion picture projectionist	533	95%	5%	856	86%	14%	871	85%	15%	2%
Theatre or cinema manager	551	56%	44%	854	48%	52%	874	50%	50%	2%
Ticket collector or usher	1,111	43%	57%	1,636	49%	51%	1229	55%	45%	-25%

Source: Compiled by Screen Australia using unpublished data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Censuses of Population and Housing, 1996–2006.

Notes:
Adjustments have been made to figures by the ABS to avoid the release of confidential data.
‘Selected audiovisual industries’ includes film and video production and post-production services, film and video distribution, film exhibition, television broadcasting, video hire and not further defined audiovisual categories.
See Industry and occupation definitions for classifications and definitions.

Proportion of men and women employed in various occupations in selected audiovisual industries, 1996–2006

Graph representing proportion of men and women employed in various occupations in selected audiovisual industries,1996, 2001 and 2006. Prior table provides the data.

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