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 Published: 22 March 2013

Latest DCMS Taking Part Survey figures published, covering adults and children in England.

The number of women participating in sport and physical activity has increased by more than 1 million since London won the bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2005, according to the latest figures from participation survey Taking Part.

And since 2010, there has been an increase of 1.2 million people who have participated in at least one 30 minute session per week of moderate intensity sport, 700,000 were women.

Taking Part, a survey conducted by DCMS, Arts Council England, English Heritage and Sport England on participation in sport, heritage and the arts, has released its figures covering January to December 2012 and boasts some of the highest participation figures since it began 8 years ago.

The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute to legal digital music. Although positive and signi_cant, our estimated elasticities are essentially zero: a 10% increase in clicks on illegal downloading websites leads to a 0.2% increase in clicks on legal purchases websites. Online music streaming services are found to have a somewhat larger (but still small) effect on the purchases of digital sound recordings, suggesting complementarities between these two modes of music consumption. According to our results, a 10% increase in clicks on legal streaming websites lead to up to a 0.7% increase in clicks on legal digital purchases websites. We find important cross country difference in these effects.

 “Digital driving recorded music industry towards recovery”

• Global recorded music revenues up 0.3 per cent, boosted by downloads, subscription and other channels
• Digital revenues up 9 per cent, with major music services now open in more than 100 markets
• Music is helping fuel the digital economy, but barriers to growth need to be addressed

The global recorded music industry is on a path to recovery, fuelled by licensed digital music services and rapid expansion into new markets internationally. Recorded music is also helping drive a broader digital economy, according to IFPI's annual Digital Music Report.

El Forum d’Avignon és un laboratori d’idees que té per objectiu analitzar la relació entre la cultura i l’economia i proporcionar canals per a la reflexió dins l’àmbit internacional, europeu i local. Es va crear el  2006 amb el suport del Ministeri de Cultura i Comunicació francès i cada any organitza un fòrum internacional amb personalitats i professionals de la cultura, la política, les indústries creatives, l’economia i els mitjans de comunicació.

El llibre que aquí us presentem recull els debats i les conclusions del Forum d’Avignon 2011 titulat “Investir la culture”.  Al llarg de l’any el Lab del Forum d’Avignon prepara i encarrega estudis, entrevistes i enquestes amb les quals es treballen els temes que es discutiran en el fòrum. En l’edició del 2011 els eixos temàtiques que es van debatre van ser els següents:

Eunamus (European National Museus)  és un projecte de la Comissió Europea i una plataforma d’investigació i recerca acadèmica que té per objectiu proporcionar coneixements, reflexions i experiències sobre les trajectòries històriques, la situació actual i els reptes de futur dels museus nacionals europeus, així com estudis comparatius entre països. La finalitat és arribar a conclusions comunes i consensuades sobre quin ha de ser el paper d’aquests museus i com poden contribuir al canvi social.

Aquest projecte triennal ha finalitzat aquest mes de gener i us presentem dues de les publicacions que ha generat.