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April 25, 2019PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL CULTURE INDICATORS, 2017 Statistics Canada has updated indicators of Canada's culture and sport activities for 2017.
Nova Scotia's GDP from culture in 2017 was $929 million, amounting to $973 per capita and 2.4 per cent of provincial GDP. Culture employment was 13,101 in 2017 or 2.8 per cent of provincial employment.
GDP from sport was $154 million; $161 per capita and 0.4 per cent of provincial GDP. Sport employment was 2,781 or 0.6 per cent of provincial employment.
Notes: culture and sport share of GDP are calculated using GDP by income, adjusted for taxes less subsidies on products and imports; GDP per capita are calculated using Q4 2017 population estimates; employment shares calculated using job totals from labour productivity tables
Source: Statistics Canada.
Table 36-10-0452-01 Culture and sport indicators by domain and sub-domain, by province and territory, product perspective (x 1,000)
Table 17-10-0009-01 Population estimates, quarterly
Table 36-10-0221-01 Gross domestic product, income-based, provincial and territorial, annual (x 1,000,000)
Table 36-10-0480-01 Labour productivity and related measures by business sector industry and by non-commercial activity consistent with the industry accounts
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