I would like to know how many people are currently working in the
Australian film industry
- and how many of those people are Australian Aboriginals? ( that includes
actors, film-makers, camera men etc.)
I need statistics/ numbers - VERY IMPORTANT

Dear agiblett-ga,

The Australian Film Commission ?AFC? produces a useful document on the
Australian Film Industry titled ?Industry Overview, Employment as of
May 2005? It contains a great deal of statistical information on the
industry including the numbers of people working in audiovisual
industries and includes the fact that that in Film/video production
for 2001 0.7% of the employees are indigenous Australians. Please note
that the AFC state that the ?data on Indigenous Australians added by
AFC from unpublished ABS data?.  You will be able to work out the
exact numbers from the 2001 total supplied in the report.

The document can be download directly on this link
http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/pdfs/employment.pdf

Various sections of the AFC web site produces the same information.

Numbers of people working in audiovisual industries based on 
? Census data, to 2001
? Service Industries Surveys, to 2003
? Activity surveys, to 2004
http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/oesummary.html

Proportions of employees from various countries and regions, 1971?2001
In % terms
http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/oecountry.html

The various definitions used in all the above sources are described here.
http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/oeinddefinextr.html



The Australian Bureau of Statistics state that 

    * In 2002?03, there were 26 feature films made in Australia, as
well as 54 TV drama programs. Of the TV drama programs, 20 were series
and serials, 12 were mini-series, 6 were telemovies and 16 were
children's programs.

    * In 2002, the percentage of films screened in Australian cinemas
that were of Australian origin was 10%.

    * Film and video production businesses in Australia employed a
total of 16,427 people in June 2003.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/f3f6f54b8961dcf1ca2568a900139372?OpenDocument


You may also be interested in these reports.
Australia?s film industry: size, scale and 
benefits 1999-2000
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/cita/film/report/chapter2.pdf


A REVIEW OF THE VIABILITY OF CREATING AN INDIGENOUS
BROADCASTING SERVICE

?Employment figures from ABS data demonstrate that Indigenous Australians 
represented 0.7 per cent of employees in the Audiovisual industries in 2001 
(0.6 per cent in the television services industries) compared to an average 
across all industries of 1.2 per cent.?
http://www.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/16050/041020_Indig_Sub_FINAL.pdf


I hope this answers your question. If it does not, or the answer is
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soon as I receive it.
Thank you
answerfinder

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Great answer-  more detailed than i could have imagined. Fantastic
work, I got everything i wanted to know plus more.  EXCELLENT