The Directory of Culture and Leisure Statistics (Cat. No. 1143.0.55.001) is a web-based product that is available freely on the ABS website.

Key aims

The key aims of the directory are to provide a quick and easy reference to all Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) sources of culture and leisure data, and provide information about the extent of data available from each data collection. Go to The Directory of Culture and Leisure statistics.

Information provided

The details provided about each collection’s data items will assist users of culture and leisure data to determine whether a collection might meet their needs, and to prepare possible cross-tabulation specifications ready for discussion with ABS information consultants.

Contact details are provided for each collection.

Entries also provide information on the scope, frequency and history of a collection and the major publications that present data from the collection.

There are two main ways to navigate the directory—by theme or by collection name—as follows:

• by theme: From the directory’s list of contents, choose either the link to the ‘Arts and culture’ collections, or the ‘Sport and leisure’ collections, then choose the theme in which you are interested (e.g. Work in sport and leisure)and examine the collections listed under that theme; or
• by collection name: If you know the name of a data collection in which you are interested, you can select it from the Alphabetic index of collections in which all of the collection titles are listed in alphabetic order.

More information is available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Culture and Recreation website.