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Cultural employment by cultural sector 2003-2025

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Theodóra Listalín Þrastardóttir
3/6/2026
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As the occupations which are categorised as cultural were edited, all numbers from 2003 have been updated.
In the labour force survey, all concepts and definitions are aligned to those of the European statistical office (Eurostat), which are used internationally. The main definitions are:
Job. Any kind of work in return for money or a kind, unpaid work with a company of your own family, unpaid work on building your own home or production for your own consumption. Furthermore, artistic work works even if the person does not have income from it. Unpaid work at home in a home has not been considered employment.
Employed persons are classified as those respondents who worked one hour or more in the reference week or were temporarily absent from the work which they are usually hired to do.
Main job refers to the job the respondent considered as his or hers main job. In doubtful cases the main job should be the one with the greatest number of hours usually worked. Statistics Iceland’s published numbers for cultural employment are based
on the Eurostat definition for cultural employment. According to this
definition those are considered in cultural employment who
1) are working in cultural industries, irrespective of whether the person is employed in
a cultural occupation,
2) those in cultural occupation, irrespective of whether they are employed in a non-cultural industries and
3) those who are in cultural occupation in cultural economic industries. The numbers for cultural employment are based on a cross-tabulation of
cultural occupations (ÍSTARF95), on one hand, and cultural industries
(ÍSAT08), on the other. The numbers are thus the total (sum) of all people
working in all jobs within cultural industries and those working in
cultural jobs within all industries.

Cultural occupations

Occupations are classified according to the Icelandic occupational classification, ÍSTARF95. Cultural occupations are those classified as fully cultural according to Eurostat’s Guide to Culture Statistics 2018. A list of cultural occupation is available in the metadata file.

Cultural industries

Industries are categorized according to Icelandic sector classification, ÍSAT2008 (NACE Rev. 2). Cultural industries are those classified as fully cultural according to Eurostat’s Guide to Culture Statistics 2018. A complete list of cultural industries is available in the metadata file.