Western Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: Contribution to state product and industry value add: Briefing Paper

This paper presents estimates of cultural and creative activity value add and gross state product for all of WA and for 14 creative domains. While these estimates follow methods developed by Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research (BCARR) in its 2024 refresh of the cultural and creative satellite accounts originally developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), we also include results for Computer Systems Design in order to capture the full extent of the value of creative work in WA.
Some caution should be used in interpreting the statistics reported here. These are estimates calculated by our UC research team, based on estimates calculated by the FootprintLab (developed in collaboration with the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The trends and relative comparisons presented here are highly informative and are the most important findings. We recommend avoiding any emphasis of standalone numbers taken out of the context of trend and comparative analysis.