Spain/ 7. Public institutions in cultural infrastructure  

7.2 Basic data about selected public institutions in the cultural sector

Data on cultural institutions have been taken from the "Cultural Statistics Yearbook" published by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. As shown in Table 5, the general trend in recent years has been the increase in publicly owned cultural institutions. The most significant growth has occurred in moveable cultural assets which increased by 160.2% in the period 2004-2011 (from 4 066 to 10 580). They were followed by dance schools which grew by 84.3% (from 102 to 188) and, concert halls which grew by 81.6% (from 201 to 365), over the same period.

At the lower extreme, libraries experienced a slight increase, 0.3%, between 2004 and 2010 (the last year for which data are available), although in previous years there had been a rapid expansion of such facilities in the territory; theatre companies grew only 2.3% in the period 2004-2011 (from 3 544 to 3 626) and, finally, public music schools, with a growth of  7.6% (from 944 to 1 016).

Table 5:     Cultural institutions financed by public authorities, by domain

Source:     Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (several years) Cultural Statistics Yearbook.
Notes:       na: not available.
*                 + Growth of less than 5% / + + Growth equal and over 5%.
**              State-owned archives, extracted from the Census-Guide of Spanish and Latin American archives.

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